USA

Ralf Fücks visited the United States in the week after the elections for talks and events in New York and Washington DC. Reflections and highlights from a nation in shock.

Shale gas boom in the USA is widely discussed in Poland. Therefore, the Heinrich Böll Foundation  organised a study tour for Polish activists, journalists and experts to USA in order to show them the results of the effects of natural gas exploration on local communities along the Marcellus Shale. One of the participants, Tomasz Ulanowski wrote an article about environmental, social, economic and political aspects of drilling in Pennsylvania.