Fractivists Look to Next Protest Issue
by Josh Brokaw “Steingraber expressed her hope that the New York fracking resistance will continue to be a resource for fellow travelers in other locations. ‘We not only enjoy an unfractured New York...
View ArticleGas Storage Expansion Plans Have Support, Company Says
by Ray Finger “‘The truth is that Crestwood’s proposed gas and LPG storage poses terrible risks and harms to people’s health, our drinking water, our wineries and the Finger Lakes economy,’ said...
View ArticleSandra Steingraber on WNBF
Steingraber was the guest on WNBF Radio’s Bob Joseph show discusssing the dismissal of trespassing charges against dozens of protesters at Crestwood’s proposed gas storage expansion near Watkins Glen...
View ArticleFeminism and Fracking: Activist speaks at Pitt
by Mark Pesto “Steingraber said the current environmental crisis should be thought of as a tree with two branches: planet and people. The planet suffers from floods, droughts and extinctions, while...
View ArticleFracking Problems: Activist Analyzes Hydrofracking and Its Effects During...
by Greg Mason “‘Why is it that we’re keeping closer tabs on the stock market than the plankton stocks?’ she said, explaining how plankton are responsible for half of the planet’s available oxygen.” The...
View ArticleExclusive: Anti-Fracking Filmmaker Josh Fox Arrested In Finger Lakes Protest
by James Joiner “Acclaimed author and biologist Sandra Steingraber is one of the driving forces behind the protests, which happen under the collective auspices of a group calling itself We Are Seneca...
View Article“We Are Seneca Lake”: Josh Fox and Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas...
“We Are Seneca Lake, in doing these themed blockades, have cut their teeth in the anti-fracking movement and have experienced that victory, so hard-won, only to turn around and see that we’re getting...
View ArticleProtesters organized, ready for arrest at Seneca Lake
by Tom Wilber “Steingraber, an ecologist and scholar in residence at Ithaca College, is a prominent figure in the movement against fracking in New York. After her own arrest for blockading the...
View ArticleSeneca Lake Protesters Soldier On
by David Chantry “We have another project going on here, which is decarbonization. We want to be the incubator and laboratory for renewable energy but we can’t open that door until we close this one…...
View ArticleNational Ethics Honor for Ithaca College Distinguished Scholar in Residence
“I accept this award on behalf of the 279 people who have been arrested since last October defending Seneca Lake against gas storage, which is to say, on behalf of those fighting for community,...
View ArticleEncyclical Unites Religious, Nonreligious Voices on Climate Change
by Dennis Sadowski “Sandra Steingraber, distinguished scholar in residence in environmental studies and science at Ithaca College in New York and a leader in the group We Are Seneca Lake that opposes...
View ArticleScience for the People
by Elizabeth Miller “Biologist and activist Sandra Steingraber brings lessons of New York’s fracking ban to the West.” Steingraber’s work is profiled in the Santa Fe Reporter before her presentation at...
View ArticleProtesters at New York Gas Storage Plant Arrested While Reading Encyclical
by Dennis Sadowski “We feel we’re building a thriving economy in this area built on the principles of sustainability,” [Steingraber told Catholic News Service] “We’re on a ruinous path of a heavy...
View ArticleLPG Protesters Get Dismissals
by Josh Brokaw “We chose the name ‘We are Seneca Lake’ because there are 100,000 people who live in the Seneca Lake watershed,” Steingraber said. “65 percent of all of us is water from Seneca Lake. Our...
View ArticleMy Valley: Save Porter Ranch has New York Support
by Gregory J. Wilcox “Group spokeswoman Sandra Steingraber, a Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Environmental Studies and Science at Ithaca College, said that the plan proposed by Crestwood Midstream...
View ArticleCapitol Pressroom Jan. 28, 2016: Peter Iwanowicz, Jolie Milstein, Jim Heaney,...
by Alyssa Plock “In a terrible way, the events that we’re watching very closely out in California, three time zones away, are exactly why people have been standing up ferociously, in peaceful civil...
View ArticleTalking With Naomi Klein: Climate Change “Not Just About Things Getting...
by Michael Winship “[M]uch of our audience was composed of environmentalists and concerned citizens, including a contingent from We Are Seneca Lake, the grassroots campaign fighting against the use of...
View ArticleFRACKED GAS HIGHWAYS: Pipelines Feed Demand, Rattle Neighbors
by Tom Wilber “’We still share a common goal,’ said Sandra Steingraber, an Ithaca College ecology scholar speaking at a recent rally in Albany. ‘We want an end to New York’s ruinous dependency on...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Fight for the Finger Lakes
by Kellie Meyer “Environmentalist Sandra Steingraber showed us the train trestle where the butane would be carried by train to Crestwood’s facility. It would cross right the busy Watkins Glen State...
View ArticleBill McKibben Among 50+ Arrested in Upstate New York over Fracking Project
by Deirdre Fulton “Indeed, said ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber, who was also part of the morning’s protest: ‘This driveway is the battleground of two different visions of the future’—one...
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