1. The Magical Thinking of Richard Kinder-Stiltskin: Resources versus Reserves If ever an extraction corporation epitomized the spirit of 16th century philosopher Francis Bacon, it is surely Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMEP). But this isn’t merely because their record of fossil…
Why Philosophy Matters to Fracking: The Past is the Future Long ago the foresightful German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that human beings were the sorts of creatures who, in the quest to advance their own self-aggrandizing interests, were compelled to…
Editor’s Note: All around the Marcellus Shale Country where mainstream and local media coverage has been lacking, citizens are generating their own media throughout the region. They are reporting on what is occurring in Shale Country on a regular basis, and are now distributing their content through the netroots. Jay Wilcox from Urban Disaster Records has been travelling around the Marcellus Shale region and has been collecting personal stories from those affected by frack. If there is one tactic that can harm the industry, it is the sharing of knowledge and stories that can bring them down, and we are glad to help facilitate this process.
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Sean Kitchen is an Assistant Editor and Social Media Organizer for Raging Chicken Press. He is student at Kutztown University.
What’s most striking about Energy in Death’s Joe Massaro’s latest hit-piece, Corbett’s Corner Hears From Local Natural Gas Fractivists | Energy In Depth – Northeast Marcellus Initiative is that he writes as if he’s all ready for the backlash his patently absurd…
One example of the complicity of some women in the promotion of the extraction industry is the exchange between Nicole Jacobs, Rachael Colley, and myself concerning my piece, ”The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club, (YouTube: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The…
Long ago Karl Marx argued that one of the hallmark characteristics of the marketing required to support mass production was the creation of a kind of false consciousness, that is, a sense of needing things we once merely wanted (or…
Enclosed is a Susquehanna University presentation of parts I-II of a longer research paper I will be posting in segments here and on Raging Chicken Press over the next two weeks. The title is: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic…
1. Pennsylvania Senate Bill 367 and Chancellor Cavanaugh’s Plan to Industrialize Higher Education Dory Hippauf’s “Welcome to PA Frack-U” offers an excellent profile of the Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 367: “an act providing for indigenous mineral resource development; and imposing powers…
If you are a major university and research institution and if members of your staff are blatant advocates for a genocidal, profiteering, propaganda mongering industry, your institution deserves to lose all accreditation – at least in the Geosciences department –…
Today, I had the opportunity to attend the press conference that preceded the Shale Gas Outrage Demonstration. Below are the videos of those who gave statements at the press conference. The speakers are residents and activists in Marcellus Shale Region,…
