Jul 27, 2016 | Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Social Media News, Videos
As seen in this report by WPTZ News in Vermont, Dr. Rachel Smolker is working with members of her Vermont community to fight the construction of a natural gas pipeline through the state. Smolker is part of GJEP’s New Voices speakers bureau, a co-director of...
Jul 7, 2016 | Featured, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Social Media News
Listen to this strong interview on the Gathering Peace radio show on WGDR and WGDH radio out of Vermont with GJEP’s own Dr. Rachel Smolker. Dr. Smolker is entrenched in a tenacious fight to stop a natural gas pipeline through a sensitive protected wetland in...
Jun 27, 2016 | GMOs, Social Media News
Originally published on CommonDreams.org By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer The “compromise” food-labeling bill announced Thursday by leaders of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee is nothing less than a “rollback of democracy at the behest of the...
Jun 8, 2016 | Featured, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News
Via Rising Tide Vermont: Monkton, Vt.- In a new wave of public opposition to the project, participants in the campaign to stop the fracked gas pipeline have stopped construction for the second time this week. Early this morning, Samuel Jessup scaled a tree on...
Jun 2, 2016 | Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Social Media News
BiofuelWatch co-director Rachel Smolker was recently interviewed for a piece for Vermont Public Radio titled, Hinesburg Residents Prepare To Fight Vermont Gas Over Wetland Clearcut. Smolker is part of a citizen group that recently secured legal standing to fight...
