from Earth First! Newswire Attendees listen to speakers during the rally as the community and organizations join Food & Water Watch’s Rally against hydrofracking and the proposal to build a liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) terminal off Long Island shoresheld on the Long Beach boardwalk, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. Protesters at the Global Frackdown Protest in Alice Springs on Saturday sybollically bury their heads in the sand of the dry Todd River. Picture: PHIL WILLIAMS Source: News Corp Australia Thousands of protestors converged at 250 demonstrations throughout the world to call for a global moratorium against fracking yesterday. The global day of action, Global Frackdown, was called for the third year in a row by Food and Water Watch. Hundreds of protestors joined together around Australia. In Alice Springs, for instance, scores of protestors entered Snow Kenna Park, decrying the devastation to land caused by fracking. “While the industry says it’s safe to drill through our aquifers, all of us know that it only takes one accident to pollute an aquifer — and what happens then? What would we do without our drinking water?” asked Central Australian Frack Free Alliance spokeswoman Tanya Hall. Protestors symbolically buried their head in the sand […]
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