Wow! That is all I keep thinking as I finally catch up on sleep from the National Summit in Denver. It was truly an incredible four days, with workshops, movie screenings, trainings, and a beautiful day of action. A few months ago the program working group came together to create our theme “escalating the fight between communities and the oil and gas industry”; we thought about it as a concept, but it was put into action in Denver.
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Here are some highlights:
- Over 230 people registered for the conference; many of them had not heard about Stop the Frack Attack or the work we do
- Community members traveled from over 30 states
- We gave out over 100 scholarships for community members to attend, 46 of those were full travel scholarships
- Our day of action brought together over 300 people into the streets of Denver, with actions at the Saddle Butte, the EPA, the COGCC, the Capitol, and Halliburton!
- It ended with a beautiful direct action at the Governor’s Mansion, led by our friends at Frack Free Colorado. They erected a 20 foot fracking rig in his front lawn and blasted the stories of communities impacted by fracking over a loudspeaker.
- Even the Colorado press noticed us!
- You can check out all the pictures and videos from the summit and action here.
- Check out the all the tweets and Facebook posts by searching #STFAco
- Here is the list of slideshows from the presentations, I will be adding more as they come in. You can also find the list of books that Kandi and Madeline suggested during the closing keynote
It was a pleasure meeting many of you for the first time and lovely seeing so many of you again. Movement work is often hard and tiring, but we got to keep doing it! One more thing! We are doing survey to see how the summit went- Can you take 2 minutes and fill it out?
See you in the Streets!
Robby Diesu
National Coordinator
Stop the Frack Attack Network
PS: We are hosting a briefing with the Post Carbon Institute on October 22, 2015 at 11amPacific, 2pm Eastern: Shale Gas and Tight Oil Reality Check. Much of the cost-benefit debate over fracking has come down to the perception of just how much domestic oil and gas it can produce and at what cost. To answer this question, policymakers, the media, and the general public have typically turned to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), which every year publishes its Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). Energy analyst David Hughes of Post Carbon Institute who predicted the vast downgrade of available oil resources in California’s Monterey shale has done a careful review of the AEO 2015 and will be sharing his findings. Sign up here!
