Francesca Rheannon of Writer’s Voice speaks with journalist and fractivist Maura Stephens about:

• Fracking’s environmental and public health impact in Pennsylvania and New York
• Use of eminent domain to take private property for fracking operations
• How the TPP could override local, state and national sovereignty on the issue
• The fight against fracking
• The precarious status of New York’s moratorium on fracking and
• The Democratic candidates’ differing positions on the issue.

Maura Stephens is a founding member of the Coalition to Protect New York and FrackBustersNY.org.

Read the story of the Holleran Farm, whose maple trees were cut down to make way for a natural gas pipeline.