(task) Josh Fox on the most powerful energy agency you’ve never heard of

N. Manhattan RN, Rockaway RN, Canarsie RN

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Fracking, Green Political Economy

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> From: Andrea Weber <aweber@biologicaldiversity.org>
> To: michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com
> Subject: Call: Josh Fox on the most powerful energy agency you’ve never heard of
> Date: May 8, 2015 at 12:39:29 PM EDT
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> Dear Friends,
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> On Thursday, May 14th at 3 pm Eastern / 2pm Central / 1pm Mountain / 12 noon Pacific time, the Climate Reality Check coalition will hold the latest in our series of national conference calls to help strengthen community organizing on climate, entitled: FERC: The Most Powerful Federal Agency You and Most Americans Have Never Heard Of.
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> Join the call for a discussion about FERC, what the agency does, how it works, and how we change it.
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> RSVP for the call <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YXKHE44cY4F92c3339az9S3-yzNzcFzMtHdETAODBbY/viewform> - Even if you can’t make it on the 14th, register to receive a recording of the call.
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> Over the past few years, building upon and connected to the movement against fracking, a grassroots movement has emerged to challenge the expansion of pipelines, compressor stations, export terminals and other shale gas infrastructure.
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> Increasingly that movement has coalesced to challenge FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which routinely rubber stamps gas industry proposals to build this infrastructure.
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> Last November Beyond Extreme Energy, a newly-formed network endorsed by 65 frontline and other groups, conducted a week of nonviolent action in front of the entrances to FERC headquarters in DC, disrupting business as usual and having a palpable impact.
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> As Beyond Extreme Energy <http://beyondextremeenergy.org/> prepares for a range of different actions at FERC later this month, we are pleased to have Tyson Slocum, Josh Fox and Ann Nau lead a discussion moderated by BXE leader Ted Glick about FERC and why it is important to challenge and expose it now.
> Please RSVP here:
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> The call-in number is 209-647-1600 Code 615986.
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> More about our presenters:
> Tyson Slocum is director of Public Citizen's Energy Program, covering climate change, coal, oil, fracking, nuclear energy, renewables and commodity market oversight. Tyson covers the regulation of electricity, natural gas and petroleum markets, including commodity futures and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) jurisdictional matters to promote transparency. Tyson serves on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. He is the author of numerous reports on these subjects and has presented his findings in testimony before the U.S. Congress. He appears regularly in print and on radio and television shows, including on PBS Newshour, The Colbert Report, MSNBC, Fox News and CNBC.
> Josh Fox is best known as the writer/director of GASLAND Parts I and II. Among numerous honors, together the films garnered an Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary and an Emmy for best Documentary Directing. Fox is internationally recognized as a spokesperson and leader on the issue of fracking and extreme energy development. He is also the founder and producing artistic director of the International WOW Company. Josh has toured to over 300 cities with his films, plays and most recently across New York and Pennsylvania with Zephyr Teachout out for The Solutions Grassroots Tour: "A Solar Home Companion".
> Ann Nau is a leader of the frontline group Myersville Citizens for a Rural Community in western Maryland. They have been active since 2011 trying to prevent the building, and now the doubling in size, of a compressor station in their town. Ann has worked with other groups around the country which are fighting compressor stations and pipelines and FERC, sharing her experiences and knowledge.
> Climate Reality Check Coalition has a Facebook group! It’s a space to comment or ask questions during our monthly climate movement building calls, listen to recordings of past calls, find resource material from our presenters, share and receive articles related to climate or spread the word about your events and actions, click here <http://www.facebook.com/groups/200039266737151/> and join the group.
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> If you have any questions please contact Allison Fisher, Public Citizen, afisher@citizen.org <mailto:afisher@citizen.org>. To be removed from this list, please email Allison. Thank you.
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