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The 2010 People’s Oil and Gas Summit:

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* full agenda now available

Dear Friends,

EARTHWORKS’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project is holding a National People’s Oil and Gas Summit November 19 and 20 in Pennsylvania – the heart of the Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling boom. This summit will be our seventh and our first in the eastern United States.
Registration flyer of 2010 National People’s Oil and Gas Summit

Space is still available, if you’re interested in going, please register now! Registration deadline is November 1st.

Attendees will meet people affected by oil and gas drilling from across the US and Canada; learn about oil and gas impacts, toxics associated with drilling activities, how natural gas fits into the climate change debate, and how to protect yourself and your community.

Presentations and discussions will include:

• The BIG PICTURE – where are they drilling, why and who’s next?
• Natural gas, CLIMATE JUSTICE and PUBLIC HEALTH: life cycle impacts of gas
• Hydraulic FRACTURING: Full disclosure,NO exemptions
• To lease or not to LEASE: Landowner and mineral owner rights
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Beyond coal, oil and gas: what is our ENERGY FUTURE?
• MEDIA: reforming the industry one blog, story, movie and wiki at a time
• Legislate, Litigate, AGITATE: lessons on organizing and civil disobedience

A Steering Committee, which includes Binghamton Regional Sustainable Coalition, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Clean Water Action, Delaware Riverkeepers, Northeast Ohio Accountability Project, Northeast PA Gas Action, PennEnvironment, Powder River Basin Resource Council, Shaleshock, West Virginia Surface Owner Protection Organization, Texas OGAP and several other individuals, is helping to shape the Summit Agenda. And more than 25 organizations from around the country are co-sponsoring the event.

Thanks to the efforts of the Steering Committee, the draft final agenda is now available.

You can register for the 2010 People’s Oil & Gas Summit in Pittsburgh at summit.earthworksaction.org. If you just want to learn more, same link.

The tax-deductible registration fee is $120 for citizens and non-profit or government representatives, $1,000 for industry and corporate participants. The cost of registration includes breakfast, lunch and group dinners on both days.

EARTHWORKS’ summits are a core component of our work to build bridges between communities that have been dealing with oil and gas drilling issues for decades and those facing the drilling boom for the first time. Our experience has been that such bridges help foster new activists, renew long-term activists, and greatly increase momentum on pushing local, state, and national reform efforts.

We hope to see you in Pittsburgh!

Best,
Sharon Wilson, Texas OGAP Organizer &
Gwen Lachelt, Director
EARTHWORKS Oil & Gas Accountability Project

P.S. You can download a pdf of the registration flyer here.
P.P.S. You can download a pdf of the draft agenda here.