[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Climate bomb is ticking--and "Run for the Pink" run by Susan G. Komen Foundation has ties to FRACKING. No wonder they are reluctant to link fracking chemicals to breast cancer . !!]

[agnes at mcn.org]

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Subject: Climate bomb is ticking--and "Run for the Pink" run by Susan G.
Komen Foundation has ties to FRACKING.  No wonder they are reluctant to
link fracking chemicals to breast cancer . !!
From:    "Janie Rezner" <jrezner at mcn.org>
Date:    Sun, March 10, 2013 2:31 pm
To:      matriarchalstudies at yahoogroups.com
         discussion at lists.mcn.org
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US Climate Bomb is Ticking.   What the Gas Industry Doesn't want you to Know

Here is a little more on the subject of FRACKING  involving the yearly
event "Run for the Pink"  which supposedly helps women avoid breast
cancer."      Even the Koch Brothers are in on it.  Janie

The Susan G. Komen Foundation--which has been influenced by an industry
representative, Jane Abraham, wife of Spencer Abraham, who was George W.
Bush's energy secretary and who serves on the board of Occidental
Petroleum, a major fracker. In addition, Komen's "million-dollar council"
includes Koch Industries' subsidiary, Georgia-Pacific, as well as General
Electric - all fracking profiteers. Perhaps this explains why the
foundation is reluctant to link chemicals such as benzene, which is
released during fracking, to breast cancer, despite evidence of a
connection."
http://clearingthefogradio.org/us-climate-bomb-is-ticking-what-the-gas-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

James Hansen's eye-opening article, "Game Over for the Climate," brought
widespread attention to the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada as a source of
carbon which, if tapped, would lead to irreversible global warming. There
is another climate bomb in the United States, shale gas hydraulic
fracking, which emits methane, more dangerous than CO2. While many
rhetorically call natural gas a bridge to the clean energy future, new
information is showing the opposite; natural gas will hasten climate
change, poisons the air, land and water, and carries unacceptable risks to
our health.

We spoke with experts - Cornell engineering professor Dr. Anthony
Ingraffea and biologist and author Dr. Sandra Steingraber - to explore
what the newest studies show and to bust common myths about gas shale
hydraulic fracking. The path out of this situation is a combination of
promoting sound science, ending the extraction economy and employing
direct action to weaken the stranglehold of industry on the political
process. It is time to end the "all of the above" energy strategy which
ensures going over the climate tipping point and instead commit to a
carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy.   read more:

http://clearingthefogradio.org/us-climate-bomb-is-ticking-what-the-gas-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

My recent interview with Sandra Steingraber on fracking at
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/61029
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