Times Union: Actor Mark Ruffalo joins fight against fracking in Hudson River


Stage and screen actor Mark Ruffalo makes an impassioned plea to the Legislature to pass a moratorium on shale gas drilling during a news conference Tuesday July 20, 2010, at the Capitol in Albany.
Photo Credit: John Carl D'Annibale

It was not the sexiest issue making the rounds of the Capitol during the summer doldrums: the injection of water and chemicals under high pressure into rock formations to extract natural gas.

The grass-roots environmental group Frack Action had failed to gain traction in its homegrown fight against the powerful gas and oil industry and the clean water advocates struggled to draw media attention for its opposition to hydrofracking in New York state.

Then they tapped the celebrity of actor Mark Ruffalo, and the curly-haired, darkly handsome star of "Shutter Island" and "The Kids Are All Right" turned out to be a godsend.

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/21/2011 11:00 AM
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Tags: Frack Action Mark Ruffalo hydrofracking Shale gas drilling Gas industry Oil industry
 

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