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cats secession notes that you specifically uh... decided not
my three hundred and fifty some odd dollar fine
uh... but instead shows
to head to brew the to jail for a ride s it was ended up being ten days
but why do you call
all this statement you made about different
regarding birth date from
l important scientific statement
uh...
well i think that
keeping first of all that detective that specific problems which i was addressing
which is that threat to drinking water
com by the storage expletive hydrocarbon gases in
well chambers
beneath in under the lake as well as that
attendant air pollution created by the compressor
haitian the truck traffic
uh... all the diesel machinery and so on that rundown that they've been massive
industrialization
electric in body uh... of of drinking water
um... that
i could solve the problem add scientific by letting the dated speak i would have
happily got it
i believe that
that client should tell it how to do things
and so i have testified about the problem i have submitted petitions
on and so on and there are at least three different government agencies were
in charge of
regulating and making decision yesterday al dot what can go on
with the facility on seneca lake and one of them is our state
department environment competition you recommended
and their two other federal agencies
and so i had communicated with all of them the problem is that
this that company itself has is claiming
that that data about there
structural integrity of the file caverns and the g underlying geology is a trade
secret
and felt i don't have access to that information
on melvin belli and andrew and we have delivered after months of trial tried
through freedom information monica
to get a hold of it it was rejected
and so if
companies
either type id knowledge than how can that it has nothing to the community
are for informed comment q are decision makers
about the the with them are folly
uh... very explicit gases underneath the first to drinking water
that's what frustrated me
on and also then picking out the mother
allied himself was born in the play
though that west bank and physically on the liver their used to be a birthday
where they're at it
uh... in
right around nine eleven he was born though i'm i became a mother of a sudden
just edvel
as big terrible
act of terrorism attacking and felt for me
u_s_ the west bank in that lake with the prog found
with the place
in in the midst of all that um...
camp that are cut back on she was about ready to plunge into and all the horror
of all that
with its beautiful refugee with his birthplace
that's where i a week later the bank of l_a_ kid robot wealth and labor with him
and and and delivered him in aunt that uh... if if if an important places died
in a decade
being random industrialized uh...
for the purpose of carrying on a fossil fuel addiction
made me
p_l_o_ panama delhi way like look i came to the plate and it is very physically
athletic event had thing i gave birth to a ten-pound baby boy without any other
that and i think it it's like
and i'm gonna take my body back to the same clinic and place it
in front of a compressor station and blockaded
and then i'm not going to pay the fine because that's the problem right the
company
became company has been in violation of its maximum
discharged into the lake it distorted chemicals into the lake every quarter
for twelve quarters it because cdph
the legal amount and if you click a fine for the crime and walked away
look for me today
i don't believe in paying fine
fifty of the crime so therefore you have to put my body
in jail time to take my body now that gave birth to defend and then gotten a
blizzard in blockade of the state
emanating from being affair addicting thing with my body which is
to put it in a jail tho
and that will be
i will let my body speaking and you're not letting me do you have to be covered
by indicating that getting active
if the data
so that what kind of abt the framework for my
my christina fish this year
uh...
frackie
is the
single largest environmental threat
sued to children's health
explain that to us
killer
so of all that if the industries that i have looked at it and and that kind of
challenges
to our public health at the creative you know over the last twenty years uh... as
uh... environmental health fine-tooth i've looked at everything from
the ability of the pesticide acceding to alter the timing of puberty in growth
i've looked at the ability and air pollution few
uh... shortened human distinction an increased risk for peter birth and how
that contribute cute
uh... infant mortality inside
have all the things that but that
have never thing a bigger emerging threats and cracking and
and that because
this is an industry that had
that dirty things i i don't know if at the any other industry does
first about it kidnapped
for most of our federal environmental laws
though it it gets a pass
com it doesn't have to report other chemicals it uses uh... alike unlike all
the other industries that we have a lot of the books rated say that
if you get the an inherently toxic chemical into the environment that we
all share
they are are air our drinking water
you have to tell the public if that chemical leaves your factory welds and
going out into the environment to report that tory government
that found alive are
depended for packing for his glover exemption from all the plot
but i can't get my hands on the data
we don't collected it we don't have a mission bay we don't have a right to
know
for me to actually
determine what the impact on health it's going to be from packing
and then a second thing is that
i don't know any other any other industry that commute our land at the
factory floor there's no downing there's no preparation
so in order for
oil or natural gas to be blasted out of the sale bedrock
a mile below our feet
the the whaling activities that that shop
right on our private land right in our community contentment
daycare centers in neighborhood on our farm field now on
and predicted that and indicated
not too good
away from where we live it
third all over
in order to work of course that have to
cut off by the way through the deadlock rock shatter it and public poland
and water and toxic chemicals to get these tiny bubbles of gas
their captain eric kind of like that
bella petrified champagne if you will
to get those to flow up and out
the borehole
and while they do that quality even while there
the the whole is being derailed
all kinds of other pop became that are
trapped inside our bedrock conflict radon
um... bending that are just nationally down there but they're not hurting
anybody if along with the state
intimately
um... that things are also emancipated along with the national gas and
that each one of these well had that kind of like a chimney in here if we
defeat has air pollutants that are
homily can do a little bit with regulations to try to
capture some of that that in fact
a lot of it
com is released
before that well it even hooked up to the pipeline
on and of course cement which is what did the liner for the well
is not an immortal festive
though it crack it
you know you we know how they look at all to complete that looked like and
felt
at connecticut's two-third of the immortal barrier for ever more between
the harmful chemicals that are
trapped in are better off than men are underlying drinking water off the first
but we know that in fact
gap twelve-week
unfit for some of the week right away
and overtime at those well keeping age
and begin to crumble
um... they've become like on people that you have all field presbytery
and done they tend to uh... uh...
they tend to track the fracture and so that you have pathway
for
these inherently toxic have been find their way apply either through there
or water over what time terry were not even sure about that
uh... it concerns me greatly that we may be link i'm on the earth
on that may not only if i thought that future generations that s well for the
fifth
uh... worrying about packing and are not only
dot studying and researching it but now i feel morally obligated added
fine-tooth knowing what i know
to actually stop it so when i received a hind tore it into dozen eleven for my
research
and riding on environmental health i donated the cash award that came with
attitude might contend or chat
uh... student attacking movement of new york out of my desire not to to study
the issue has actually protect people
on to intervene
on a precautionary way and and that money
became the feed money for
we are going to get tracking which i'm really pleased if they have now become
i think that uh... alliance of of
handful of griffin alice
uh... i kind of the lady and back
we're going to make a big became the third maybe fourth now we're more then
com
two hundred different organizations five hundred different church leaders if i
was in different businesses
um... we have
you know how it began tracking didn't begin tracking shots for the marcela
and uh... scientists and physicians have joined and though
we have become
for the entire cracking movement in new york and we really seek too
not just a note of tracking
but to bring data out before our policy makers before a governor
before the people to show that we could turn our state into a showcase for
renewable uh... energy and
help our farmers
uh... supplement farm income by for example
having a solar array in about forty instead of id of the drill
head and
uh... contribute uh... energy
are renewable energy to degrade
on we could plug in are sharp carved on it
electric cars into that great info on
that at we actually have a good day this is not workable
on and we wish to it by now actual item operationalize
it get ideas held
in seventeen com we are going to get tracking is going to be rallying
in albany
june seventeenth th being the day that the statue of liberty
first arrived on our shores
i'm having twenty eight years ago and now who do you think anniversary of her
arrival here
if they have any i think what began we secured
in a rate the lab to the world to show up at
onto renewable energy
now we're at a concert kiriwe close the door
really apostle felix action to simply years ago helps close the door on
slavery
and redefine our economy there were no longer depending on the things that are
coming up children and and killing on center
leslie
let me just ask how how how your cue
disc mean from
leaves you've obviously you've spoken to your your your children about your work
in the the
they they speak of it but uh... how did that
preceded and mean uh...
at the uh... you know from your perspective in
and you also mention a story of the teacher
i cannot remember what what what the time was
talking to her
us regarding their their perception uh...
end up dying in a uh... nuclear war but
than i imagined that at that and i had that at a very animating story i mean i
i i looked at me like i'm not going to play
everything about them separated my household for sure there a conflict when
next week i'll be at a press conference
on opt-out cracking and for that i will miss my fun offspring concert he didn't
even though they haven't broken it the new tonya and
terrible about
that issue on the other hand in a large away
uh... my kid feel reassured
by my activity in knowing that i'm on the job in a press kid ali
at their characters are capable of more schweid only really i think they think
of the fifty percent
though i'm always interested in like living up to my kids
belief in the past come to power do you think i have
but that's a very ordinary you know i might come home from washington are from
albany
i've been testifying right and thought you know arm doing researcher whatever
i'm doing in a locking the door to make you know soared dragging in the back
then
and a look at the level of helping my mom and pop tracking at circulate
and i were collected lover
of doing that and
and that comp them down cuz they can see that i'm working on there'd be half so
for all of their
uh... grumbled about
might have been selected we do a lot of homework you know over the phone from a
hotel room to be like that but
op i can't do remember ardyss story that one of my readers told me about a third
grade teacher who during the cuban missile crisis
land ours uh... relationships with with the soviet union couldn't have been were
straight and on people were really
half thinking with the that that the bombs are gonna start flying that her
target practice so freaked out that they could not even computer left in the
decheek
began a conversation with them and realized
during that conversation that every one of the eight-year-old thought that they
were good and i a nuclear war except for one child
and she asked that one child will how come you think everything fine
and she's dead because my parents are keith activists and they're going to
stop it
though what that de begin to realize you know that my job as a parent did not
come up with the perfect
on narrative about climate change like that you know it's my job to come up
with that the story where babies came from i don't have to come up with the
perfect story
you know just alarming but not too alarming accredited i don't have to do
that but i have to do if i can stop it
and have my kid lakshmi and witness me inaction that's what compton down a
thing that their parents are engaged a cardiac turning away
from the big moral issues of our time they're really the heroes of the story
and i kept the kids want to be here at the let's that do it
it's not required for a pack shipment of the really big problem but who doesn't
want to be here on now
here's our chance
and fell all kind of other parents throughout history have had to do her up
things when they had young kids
and always interested in their story thik hai
have the french three people in the country you can't do it had to
abolitionist iran underground railroad that they had kids do you think a lot
more than i did right
they didn't even know what you think though
others that and fell out
i think we can get to merely camps
censoring grabber
the book is raising elisa protecting our children in an age of environmental
crisis thanks so much for spending the time today