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January 21, 2013

Yoko Oko, Sean Lennon Stage Anti-Fracking Bus Tour 
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In a bid to draw attention to the environmental impact of fracking, the
musician and activist Yoko Ono has joined with her son, musician Sean
Lennon, for a tour of impacted areas in the northeastern United States.
The actor and activist Susan Sarandon joined Ono and Lennon for part of
their trip.

Susan Sarandon: "Fracking is such a major, major decision, because it's
forever. I mean, we do not undo the damage of a well. Even when they've
gotten the gas they want and they leave, all that stuff is still
emitting."

Sean Lennon: "We need to educate people that fracking is dirty, there's
no way to make it clean. The industry knows that it's dirty, and that's
why they're spending so much money on a PR campaign to sort of spread
disinformation and to tell people that it's going to save their economy,
when actually what it does is it devastates local communities."

 

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