Jan 13: Marcellus activist training

Get Organized: Skills to Protect your Community in the Marcellus Shale! PennEnvironment, Center for Healthy Environments and Communities, Earthworks OGAP, Clean Water Action, Mountain Watershed Association, Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), and the Three Rivers Waterkeeper are hosting trainings for activists.Topics will be how to recruit volunteers, generate media coverage, and how to use a new interactive web tool that will help you coordinate with other activists and track gas drilling impacts in your community.

We’ll teach you how to find volunteers, get media coverage on the impacts of gas drilling in your area and more. We’ll also show you how to use FracTracker, the helpful new interactive web tool that tracks the impacts of the natural gas industry.

6:30 p.m. in the 5th floor conference room of the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities (CHEC), in the Bridgeside Point Building, 100 Technology Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. For more information and to register, click here.

Another training will be held on January 15th in Connellsville.