[IMC] fracking coverage

[Stuart Levy]

I was there yesterday, and video-recorded most of the press conference.  
Speakers included Sandra Steingraber, Jeff Biggers, Mel Lamar (of 
Illinois People's Action, I think), Tabitha Tripp (of SAFE,  I think), 
Annette McMichael, and others.   Among the comments: that Attorney 
General Lisa Madigan is responsible for the regulatory bill, which they 
argue is insufficient, and was negotiated without democratic 
transparency and without adequate basis in science.  Following the 
conference was a march to Madigan's office, and what turned into a very 
interesting conversation (also mostly recorded) between Steingraber, 
Biggers, and other opponents of fracking, and Mary Morrissey (Madigan's 
political director) and Matt, an environmental staff lawyer.

This is a really heartening fight.  The legislative bills - the 
regulatory bill above, and another much better one which would provide a 
2-year moratorium on fracking in IL - have yet to be voted on, and the 
no-chance-in-hell moratorium bill might yet have a chance, thanks 
substantially to the public stir raised recently by SAFE and IPA.

I haven't reviewed any of my video yet - some of the press conference 
environment was very noisy - but will try to do that and post it if it's 
usable.  Will try to write some of this up for the UCIMC web site, somehow.

    Stuart

[P.S. I won't send anything more on this subject to the IMC list, but 
will to occupyCU if anyone wants to discuss it there.]


On 5/29/13 10:31 AM, Siobhan Higgins Burke wrote:
> Today at 1 there will be a press conference in Springfield on ongoing 
> resistance to fracking.  Sponors include SAFE and Illinois Peoples 
> Action.
> You should be covering it!!!!
>
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