What's the problem with 'fracking'?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Josh Fox, writer and director of the documentary, Gasland, about the spread of "fracking," or hydraulic fracturing, across the United States. The process, which uses water, pressure, and chemicals to extract natural gas from the ground, is exempt from environmental regulation. What concerns do you have? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What effects is "fracking" having on our health and environment? On the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Josh Fox, writer and director of Gasland

Deborah Goldberg, managing attorney of EarthJustice's northeast regional office

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What's happening to the Arctic?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about offshore oil drilling in the Arctic. With 30 per cent of the world's undiscovered natural-gas reserves and 10 per cent of all oil reserves, oil companies are now lobbying governments to expand drilling in Arctic waters. How will the Arctic's fragile ecosystem be affected by oil drilling and a possible spill? Join us at 10 or email Feedback@Yourcallradio.org. Who makes the drilling decisions? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ben Ayliffe, an Arctic campaigner for Greenpeace

Richard Steiner, marine conservationist and an oil spill expert

Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, and an Arctic expert

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the first anniversary of Mine Explosion in West Virginia. We'll also talk about BP's plans to resume offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Judge Goldstone's Op-Ed in Washington Post. We'll be joined by independent journalists Dahr Jamail and Jeff Biggers and Inter Press Service's Mel Frykberg joins us from Ramallah. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you

Guests:
Mel Frykberg, Inter Press Service global news agency's West Bank and Gaza correspondent

Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist and author

Jeff Biggers, an independent journalist and author

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What can we learn from the Gulf oil disaster?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Exxon Valdez survivor and marine biologist Riki Ott and Texas shrimper-turned-activist Diane Wilson. They've been helping workers in the Gulf organize to defend the environment, their jobs, and their own health. How has the BP catastrophe changed your view of the environment, our economy, and our democracy? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Has this oil spill brought us to a crossroads? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Riki Ott, marine biologist and author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Diane Wilson, former Texas shrimp boat captain and author of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas

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What role should the environmental movement play in the Gulf?

In the midst of the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history, what role should the environmental movement play? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Carl Pope, former executive director of the Sierra Club. The ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has created a debate within the environmental movement about policies. So how are groups like the Sierra Club influencing policy? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. And do you think they are applying enough pressure on the White House? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Carl Pope is the former executive director of the Sierra Club, and currently its executive chairman.

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What does offshore drilling mean to you?

As one of the country's greatest environmental disasters unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, what do we need to know about offshore drilling? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the country's oil rigs, how they operate, and the long-term human and environmental consequences of oil spills. Who should be held responsible and what are the politics involved?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Will this latest tragedy change U.S. domestic energy policies? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Riki Ott--marine biologist and author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Lisa Margonelli--journalist and author of Oil on the Brain: Adventures from Pump to Pipeline

Troy Wetzel--fishing boat captain from Venice, Louisiana

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the upcoming general election in Great Britain, the human and environmental cost of the oil rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico and the debate about Wall Street on Capitol Hill. And what was done well? We'll be joined by Propublica's Jake Bernstein, Huffington Post's Marcus Baram and Globe and Mail London Bureau chief's Doug Saunders.

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jake Bernstein, author, and an investigative reporter for ProPublica.
Marcus Baram, a news editor at the Huffington Post.
Doug Saunders, the chief of the Globe and Mail's London-based European Bureau.

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Your Call 101408 Antonia Juhasz, author of 'Tyranny of Oil'

How did oil companies become so big and powerful? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Antonia Juhasz, author of Tyranny of Oil. ExxonMobil is the most profitable corporation both in the world and in world history. Its profits are larger than the entire economies of ninety-three of the world's nations ranked by GDP. What can citizens do to take the power back? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Antonia Juhasz, author of The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It.

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Your Call 092508 Big Oil with author Antonia Juhasz

What's in store for the future of big oil? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Antonia Juhasz, author of the forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry -- and What We Must Do to Stop It. Juhasz investigates the true state of the U.S. oil industry by uncovering its global power, influence over our elected officials, the truth behind $150-a-barrel oil, and the highest profit in corporate history. Who's really controlling the prices? How much oil is even left? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest: Antonia Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco.

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Your Call 052908 When Big Oil Goes Wrong

When big oil goes wrong, who should be held responsible? On the next Your Call, we'll look at the environmental and human toll of oil exploration in Ecuador and ask where responsibility lies: Is it with San Ramon-based multinational Chevron? The Ecuadorian government? Or those of us who pull up to the pump? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Lou Dematteis, author/photographer of Crude Reflections just published by City Lights

Mitch Anderson, Corporate Accountability Campaigner with Amazon Watch.

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