Anti-fracking activists step up efforts at Castleton forum The signs were the work of "Stop the New York Fracked Gas Pipeline," a group that presented a public forum drawing an estimated 400 people to the school Thursday night. Speakers led the crowd in a mass yell of "No new permits for fracking infrastructure," a mouthful of a phrase that stumped several in the audience. [...] Connors stood in the hallway of the high school and passed around a plastic bucket for donations. The group's strategy, Connor said, is to defeat the proposal by "death through a thousand paper cuts," blocking the pipeline through legal actions and public outcry.