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DISH, Texas: “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”
From Calvin Tillman’s blog: http://www.baddish.blogspot.com/ When taking over as mayor of DISH, the first question that was asked by the local media outlets was to respond to the fact that our property values as a whole had decreased considerably from the past year. This is where small towns and cities get the bulk of their funding,…
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Misery: Gas companies as neighbors, the lies they tell, the arms they twist, and the hellish consequences
From a follow-up interview conducted by e-mail and used with permission: Hi David, Thanks for coming up to Ithaca on Friday. On a separate note, would you mind if I share your experience with fracking with people in Ithaca? If it’s okay with you for me to do so, I’d also like to confirm what…
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Dear God, please save our town.
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Ken Jaffe: groundwater, equal protection & the SGEIS
In its Executive Summary of the revised SGEIS released yesterday, the DEC states clearly that groundwater is at sufficient risk from gas drilling to restrict gas drilling to protect those drinking groundwater. But they only afford that protection to those drinking from primary aquifers. The DEC leaves the great majority of drinkers of groundwater in…
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“The resource curse”
From “The Spill Seekers,” Outside Magazine, November 2010 ————————————- While I was in Louisiana, there was an event at the Cajundome, in Lafayette, called the Rally for Economic Survival: 11,000 people packed the place to hear the governor, the lieutenant governor, and, of all people, the executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Marketing and Promotion…
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Caught in the act in West Virginia
We knew it happens; here’s proof: Tanker dumping fluid onto public road see also Sootypaws Journal – Fracture Waste
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Isengard becomes an orc factory
Dispatch from Dimock: The activity has really picked up here and over toward Elk Lake. Truck and tanker activity is steadily increasing. Water / whatever trucks running all night long. A dump truck roared by while I was along the road and it reeked of an oily smell – what was he hauling? Dirt roads…
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PA’s Department of Environmental Prevarication does it again
WATERVILLE – A substance used in the natural gas drilling process is discoloring and distorting the texture of spring water running off a Cummings Township sidehill. . . . . . The mysterious substance was seen flowing down the slope, under the road and into Pine Creek, said Daniel T. Spadoni, spokesman for DEP’s northcentral…
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A glass of Pennsylvania lemonade, Mr. Gill?
Governor Rendell, Governor Paterson, will you join us?Mr Grannis? Mr. Gruskin? There’s plenty for all. I live in Hickory, PA… just to update what is going on here, we had our water sent to an independent lab. The amount of toxic chemicals found were off the chart. We had the DEP come to the house…
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What’s wrong with this picture?
A November 4th press release from the PA DEP reveals that while “numerous” people in Dimock have been without good water for, oh, a year, give or take, it takes an agreement process with DEP to force Cabot Oil & Gas to address residents’ need for “replacement” water. It takes an agreement process with DEP…