Julie Dermansky

About

Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers Universityโ€™s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.

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โ€œWho is the danger here?โ€ Vera Scroggins,ย  an anti-fracking activist based in Susquehanna County asked after reaching an agreement to resolve a case in which she faced criminal charges at the Montr...
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FrackFeed.comย isย a new oil and gas industry-supported website whose mission is to challenge the negative public perception of fracking. Thatโ€™s a tall order since public awareness and opposition to ...
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Denton's city council decided not to vote on a repeal of the city's fracking ban, after almost six hours of discussion on the topic at a public meeting lastย night.ย  The vote to repeal the ban was c...
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Three members of the Denton Drilling Awareness Group were arrested when they refused to move away from the entrance to a fracking site where work beganย today. Before arresting them, however, Sergea...
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An open letter from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) and the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeperย advisesย thoseย affected by theย Santa Barbaraย Plains All American Pipelineย spill notย toย par...
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A month after revealing that TransCanada is under a compliance review for the Keystone 1 Pipeline, the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safetyย Administration (PHMSA) disclosed it is also investigating ...
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Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corrod...
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Nearly a dozen Union Pacific railway cars were blown off an elevated trestle in Elmwood, Louisiana, on Monday during a strong windย storm. No injuries were reported in the incident near the Huey P. ...
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If you ask Dean Blanchard, the largest shrimp buyer and wholesaler in the region surrounding Grand Isle, Louisiana, things โ€œwent from paradise to hellโ€ in the five years following the BP oilย disast...
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Cat Island, off the Gulf Coast in Louisianaโ€™s Plaquemines Parish, was home to a vibrant bird rookery inhabited by brown pelicans, seagulls, spoonbills, and egrets before BPโ€™s Deepwater Horizon oil ...