Rocky Mountains to Pacifc Coast
**Help us connect communities resisting fracking in Colorado with communities fighting fracked gas exports in Oregon! A generous donor has agreed to match contributions up to $3000**
While community resistance against the proposed Jordan Cove project in Oregon has been ongoing for more than a decade, as has community opposition to reins-free fracking in western Colorado, the communities at either end of this project have remained disconnected and isolated. The fossil fuel industry wants us to remain disconnected and isolated, but instead we're building relationships between the upstream and downstream communities facing the Jordan Cove project and the fossil fuel & natural gas industry and recognizing our shared struggle.
That's why we're taking community leaders from the No Jordan Cove campaign in southern Oregon and from fracking resistance in western Colorado on a tour to both regions, to hear firsthand from those directly impacted about the ways our struggles are connected.
Specifically, we will utilize a series of EcoFlights (flights in a small plane to view threatened/impacted areas from the air) with frontline community members to feature the Jordan Cove fight from the origin in the fracking fields of the Piceance Basin to the export hub at Coos Bay, as a tool to connect and amplify the voices of activists and impacted communities all along the Jordan Cove chain. Through this project and the use of varied multimedia storytelling we aim to support the broader effort of educating about fossil fuels, climate and environmental impacts, and a clean energy future. September 16th & 17th we’ll be in Western Colorado, September 18th we’ll follow the Ruby pipeline from Colorado to Klamath County, OR, and September 19th & 20th we’ll be in Southern Oregon from Klamath County to Coos Bay.
Ultimately, the story of fracking in western Colorado and the Jordan Cove LNG project in southern Oregon isn't just a story of isolated folks who don't want gas drills or pipelines in their backyards; it's a much broader story about the damaging effects of fossil fuels and extraction economies in rural communities, as well as the ways we're connecting across traditional boundaries to build mutual solidarity to fight for a fossil fuel free world.
Tour Dates
9/16: North Fork Valley, CO
9/17: Battlement Mesa, CO
9/18: Klamath Falls, OR
9/19: Rogue Valley, OR
9/20: Coos Bay, OR
We need your support to make it happen! We're running this on as shoestring a budget as we can, but some costs (airfare, food, lodging, etc) can't be avoided. Please support this work to connect communities facing down the fossil fuel industry to build stronger connections and stronger resistance for a clean energy future. Your donation will go directly to covering the costs to make this exciting project possible. Contributions will go towards: airfare for community leaders between Colorado and Oregon, food & lodging for the trip, gas money for the EcoFlight plane and ground crew that , and a videographer to document the project.
Instead of just going to big nonprofit foundations for money, we're reaching out and asking the communities involved in these campaigns against Jordan Cove and fracking to support this project as well--because we want to know that this is a project that our communities believe in and are invested in making happen.
A generous donor has offered to match donations up to $3000, so you're contribution effectively will be doubled. Please donate and help us make this project a reality!
