Helen Slottje is the recipient of the 2014 Goldman Prize, from North American. Slottje provided legal help to communities in the New York states against the efforts of oil and gas companies to practice fracking in their local lands. She assisted in passing local bans on fracking, starting in 2009 as a volunteer for a community group in Tompkins about gas drilling. More than 170 towns of the state have banned fracking due to Slottje’s legal framework. Photo credit: The Goldman Environmental Prize
