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Standing Rock FB page 10 ways to help Standing Rock how to contact the banks financing the standing Rcok DAPL pipeline

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The oil and gas companies are spending over $ 3 million to try to prevent citizens from amending the Colorado constitution. They want to put fracking wells and pipelines next to homes, schools, hospitals. They want to be able to pollute the air and water. Here are some links to good groups and articles: 350 colorado.org colorado conservation Who's Behind the 'decline to sign" efforts? Great articles by Joel dyer of theBoulder Weekly about the web of donors and lobbyists pushing to prevent any regulation of fracking. second article Third article.      

These suuperloud seismic airgun blasting for oil could injure 138,000 whales and dolphins from Delaware to Florida. The blasts go off every 10 seconds 24 hours a day. They threaten the endangered right whale. I first became entranced with whales when I heard that a group of false pilot whales had beached themselves near Vero Beach, FL. My sisters and I drove there from our nearby grandparents, and we pushed them out as incoming wave slifted them up. Superloud navy sonar and oil exploration seismic blasts have been suggested as the cause of many whale beachings. The blasts can cause hearing loss in the whales. Link Link

Please gather signatures for petitions to keep oil fracking away from schools, homes, and hospitals. Link to circulate petitions or donate. Link to a good article in the Boulder Weekly.

InsideClimate News LA Times LA times in Dec Attorneys- General investgate Exxon.