Blockade at Fracking Waste Storage Facility

This morn­ing 19th Feb, pro­test­ers block­ad­ed a Frack­ing Waste Stor­age Facil­i­ty in New Mata­moras, OH. Truck traf­fic to the facil­i­ty was dis­rupt­ed for 2.5 hours. As of this post­ing, a mono­pod is still in place on the site.

This morn­ing 19th Feb, pro­test­ers block­ad­ed a Frack­ing Waste Stor­age Facil­i­ty in New Mata­moras, OH. Truck traf­fic to the facil­i­ty was dis­rupt­ed for 2.5 hours. As of this post­ing, a mono­pod is still in place on the site.

In an unprece­dent­ed show of uni­ty against the extrac­tion indus­try mem­bers of  Appalachia Resist!, Tar Sands Block­ade, Rad­i­cal Action for Moun­tain Peo­ples’ Sur­vival (RAMPS), a coali­tion of indige­nous lead­ers includ­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tives from No Line 9 and the Unis’tot’en Camp, Great Plains Tar Sands Resis­tance, and Earth First! chap­ters from across the coun­try have gath­ered in South­ern Ohio to par­tic­i­pate in and sup­port this action.  This is the lat­est in an ongo­ing and esca­lat­ing cam­paign of resis­tance to the dan­ger­ous and exploita­tive resource extrac­tion indus­try that is threat­en­ing the exis­tence and sur­vival of the earth and all of it’s inhab­i­tants world-wide.