November 26, 2014
Sandra Steingraber: "Why I am in Jail"
"I was arrested for trespassing on the driveway of a Texas-based energy company that has the sole intention of turning the crumbling salt mines underneath the hillside into massive gas tanks for the highly-pressurized products of fracking: methane, propane and butane."
Biologist, poet/writer and dedicated opponent of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), Sandra Steingraber wrote this message from her cell in the Chemung County Jail in New York State. It was published on November 22, 2014 by EcoWatch and posted on commondreams.org" more...