Baum Forum

03/21/2014

The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to l...

03/30/2012

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We are New York chefs who successfully organized in 2014 to protect our food & water from risky fracking.

12/02/2011

Great testimony by Baum Forum's Hilary Baum yesterday.

Where are we when we’re not organizing chefs? Earlier this week, some of us were testifying at New York State’s final public hearing on fracking. Speaking of its potential impact on New York’s farmers were Louise Johnson of SkyHill Farm, who talked about the highly vulnerable aquifers in her regio...