Kelly Sheehan Senior Director of Energy Campaigns for the Sierra Club and Dayna Reggero founder of the Climate Listening Project

What happens when the sounds of the waves are filled with cries of wildlife and sea creatures who have been covered in oil from a spill in their habitat? I refer, with emphasis to the BP Horizon Deep Water oil spill on April 20, 2010, which resulted in oil extending across 68,000 square miles within in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond.  What happens when extreme storms bring fresh water into the Gulf from the Mississippi River and throws off the balance of the nature killing and disorienting fish and other wildlife, as well hurting the fishing and tourist industries? And wait, there’s more!  Add fracking in the Gulf and building new terminals to help export that gas, and we have another potential catastrophe in the making. Our guests on this episode are Dayna Reggero and Kelly Sheehan, who are on the forefront of the effort to stop fracking in the Gulf and fight fracked gas exports. Kelly Sheehan is the Senior Director of Energy Campaigns for the Sierra Club, where she leads a national effort to advance climate justice and a transition off of fossil fuels. She has been an environmental activist by passion and by trade for the past twenty years, directing campaigns to protect the environment, training and engaging people to participate in our democracy, and building a movement for social change. Dayna Reggero is an award-winning documentary film director and founder of a collaborative storytelling effort called the Climate Listening Project. Her work in the Gulf started at the age of 19, appearing with animals on television to talk about environmental concerns. We talk about fracking wells in the Gulf of Mexico and about the need to sustain our spirit in order to sustain the Earth. We need to shout and fight for the planet, but we need to maintain balance within ourselves so that we can help each other in order to protect Mother Earth. For more info go to  @EcoKelly | Instagram, Kelly Sheehan | LinkedIn, and Kelly Sheehan | Twitter and http://daynareggero.com and climatelisteningproject.org. For more episodes go to HudsonRiverRadio.com and MalcolmPresents.com Subscribe to TMSOG podcast, Twitter and Instagram @tmshadesofgreen