Protesters aiming to “Stop the Frack Attack” were planning to hold a three-day meeting in the nation’s capital at the end of this week for obstructionist training sessions and lobbying of Congress, to be followed by a Saturday afternoon demonstration on the West Lawn of the Capitol.

The group, said to include more than 130 local and national organizations, was using Sierra Club offices in downtown Washington, DC, for some of its sessions. Those sessions include: Public Demonstrations 101; Messaging and Media Outreach; Health and Safety Training; Money In Politics; Nonviolent Direct Action 101; Shutting Things Down, So We Can Open Them Up; How We Get on School Board and Get Natural Gas Out of Our Schools.

The Saturday session on the Capitol lawn at 1:30 p.m. EDT is scheduled to include a number of speakers calling for action to “protect community rights, public health, drinking water and the global climate” from the impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The speakers also are expected to “demand the closure of legal loopholes that allow the oil and gas industry to ignore parts of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and other bedrock environmental laws while fracking.”

Later in the day, “after getting pumped up by our awesome speakers,” the group is expected to make “a special delivery to the American Petroleum Institute and America’s Natural Gas Alliance. They say fracking is good for our water; we say nay and have the water to prove it!”

It was not clear what was meant by that statement; however, carrying their own water when they’re out in the midday sun would be advisable, since there is expected to be no letup in the heatwave that has been scorching the area.