(2015/04/28) The water wars start at home (Climate)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 April 2015
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #917
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: The consequences of fracking revealed in a simple kitchen test. Holy smokes. - @Upworthy - Air Date: 04-21-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Bedtime Stories - Chris Reed
Ch. 4: Act 2: Nebraskan Oil & Gas Committee Challenged To A Glass Of “Safe” Fracking Water - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-31-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Can't Get Away - Rodriguez
Ch. 6: Act 3: Ban Fracking on Public Lands via @foodandwater — Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 7: Song 3: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 9: Song 4: Let's Work Together 'Live' - Canned Heat
Ch. 10: Act 5: Reality bites California - @greennewsreport - Air Date: 4-2-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Tommy Sands, Dolores Keane & Vedran Smailovic
Ch. 12: Act 6: Who Is Sucking Water Out Of California Without A Permit? - @ajplus - Air Date: 04-20-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: Watermark - Enya
Ch. 14: Act 7: Cowspiracy: As California Faces Drought, Film Links Meat Industry to Water Scarcity & Climate Change - @democracynow - Air Date: 4-7-15
Voicemails
Ch. 16: A perspective on Indiana from inside Indiana - Katie in Indianapolis
Ch. 17: I don't exactly disapprove of the riots - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 18: Final comments on the launch of my new fundraiser for Climate Hike
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: Ban Fracking on Public Lands via @foodandwater
Take Action:
SIGN and share: Ban Fracking on Public Lands! via Food & Water Watch to support Rep Mark Pocan’s legislation
Use ContactingTheCongress.org to let your legislators know you expect them to support Rep. Mark Pocan's Protect Our Public Lands Act of 2015.
Additional Activism/Resources:
SIGN and share: "Tell Governor Brown: Fracking Moratorium now!” via Clean Water Action
Contact Governor Brown directly: Mail/Phone/Email
Sources/further reading:
"The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking” via Food & Water Watch
"Exclusive: California used 70 million gallons of water in fracking in 2014” at Reuters
"How Much Water Does The California Oil Industry Actually Use?” via DeSmog Blog
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:12.7 | Welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from Upworthy, The |
| 0:17.5 | Young Turks, Activism from Food and Water Watch, Democracy Now, The Green News Report, |
| 0:23.0 | to AJ+. |
| 0:30.0 | A 40-minute drive west took us to the Bardson Farm, beside of one of the first wells drilled |
| 0:35.3 | in Bradford County. |
| 0:38.7 | We were offered $100 an acre, which was going great at that time. |
| 0:43.7 | It's naturally increased since we signed our lease as people became more informed as |
| 0:48.0 | to what the gas companies are actually here for. |
| 0:52.6 | And I don't think there's a grudge anybody who can get a better contract than what I |
| 0:58.5 | did. |
| 0:59.5 | I went with a local lawyer who was very good with contracts, but at the time all of |
| 1:06.2 | this was still some new that they even missed things, which I have felt have come back |
| 1:12.9 | to bite me. |
| 1:13.9 | So again, you know, get somebody that you are, it was very reputable if you're considering |
| 1:20.2 | signing a lease. |
| 1:21.7 | So we signed that lease by saying we were given $100 an acre. |
| 1:27.1 | So being farming as what it is, we took it to the bank. |
| 1:32.0 | I mean, that was $19,000. |
| 1:33.8 | Caught up on some bills, paid off some loans. |
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