Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor and filmmaker who began his career in the late 1980s. In 2008, Ruffalo expressed concern that gas companies were eyeing his family’s land in Callicoon, New York, and New York wrote that Ruffalo, after doing his own investigation, became “anti-fracking’s first famous face”. On October 4, 2010, Ruffalo appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the FRAC Act of 2009. He claimed in the December 2010 issue of GQ that after he organized screenings in Pennsylvania of a documentary about natural-gas drilling called Gasland, he was placed on a terror advisory list. The Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of Homeland Security denied the claim.
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved – hydraulic fracturing – is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights.
Source: The Ecologist (2010) Read More
(Editor’s Note, 15 Dec 2024. The original item is no longer available on the web. The former title of this piece was: Natassaja Noell. Gas drilling and toxic terrorists: New York City Mayor says risks of gas drilling “unacceptable”. 23 Mar 2010.
Source: Earthworks(2014) Read More