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Fracking with Shell at their Gastech Conference

March 23rd, 2011

Gastech conference attendees look on as we drop our banner and proliferate fliers throughout the building. Check out more photos here >>
Fracking [frack-ing]
  - noun 1. Short for 'hydraulic fracturing' -- an environmentally destructive method of extracting natural gas from the ground.
  - verb 2. Totally messing something up.

Protesters unveiled a banner that read "Get the Shell out -- Don't frack with Canada's wild salmon," today at the Shell-hosted GasTech conference in Amsterdam. The stunt is part of a series of actions protesting Shell's plans to drill for coalbed methane in the Sacred Headwaters in northwest British Columbia, Canada and comes two days after Shell Canada's 100th anniversary.

For years, Shell has had its sights set on extracting coalbed methane that requires fracking -- which would carry serious implications for salmon and the communities that depend on the salmon-bearing watersheds in the region. So, three ForestEthics volunteers decided to frack with Royal Dutch Shell in front of their friends, at one of the largest annual get-togethers of the natural gas industry's major players.

Read a first-hand account from one of the protesters >>

Read our press release >>

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