FBNY Digital Billboard - Albany, NY - January, 2014
Who We Are
We hail from all parts of New York State, are determinedly grassroots, and take no funding from any organizations, political parties, or corporations. We share a deep commitment to making fracking and related industrial harms crimes in New York State law, as we recognize they are in practice -- crimes against Nature and people, which threaten our very survival as a species.
Since 2011, when we introduced the idea of criminalizing fracking and related industrial activities, we have been dismissed, scoffed at, and called radical, but over time increasingly quoted, as more and more people have come to realize that Fracking Is indeed a Crime against People and Planet. Some have called it re-criminalizing fracking because before the Energy Act of 2005, the oil and gas industry were not exempt from laws protecting air, water, and people from poisons.
Like our allied organizations, the Coalition to Protect New York and SPAN, we define fracking as much more than the short-term industrial drilling practice of shooting millions of gallons of water laced with silica and toxic chemicals deep underground to shatter shale rock and release the molecules of methane trapped inside. We use the term fracking to mean all the processes involved in exploring, developing, extracting, disposing, storing, and distributing shale gas (so-called “natural” gas) via unconventional drilling, and all related industrial activities. For many of us who have studied the process and observed its devastating effects, fracking also denotes the “fracturing” of our health, environment, properties, communities, legislatures, media, livelihoods, and way of life by those who would usurp and abrogate our rights.
We welcome new members who demonstrate their commitment to our vision and mission. Contact us via
Since 2011, when we introduced the idea of criminalizing fracking and related industrial activities, we have been dismissed, scoffed at, and called radical, but over time increasingly quoted, as more and more people have come to realize that Fracking Is indeed a Crime against People and Planet. Some have called it re-criminalizing fracking because before the Energy Act of 2005, the oil and gas industry were not exempt from laws protecting air, water, and people from poisons.
Like our allied organizations, the Coalition to Protect New York and SPAN, we define fracking as much more than the short-term industrial drilling practice of shooting millions of gallons of water laced with silica and toxic chemicals deep underground to shatter shale rock and release the molecules of methane trapped inside. We use the term fracking to mean all the processes involved in exploring, developing, extracting, disposing, storing, and distributing shale gas (so-called “natural” gas) via unconventional drilling, and all related industrial activities. For many of us who have studied the process and observed its devastating effects, fracking also denotes the “fracturing” of our health, environment, properties, communities, legislatures, media, livelihoods, and way of life by those who would usurp and abrogate our rights.
We welcome new members who demonstrate their commitment to our vision and mission. Contact us via
and let us know of your interest and experience, and we will be in touch.
