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Welcome to the un-naturalgas.org weblog
Thanks for visiting. Please also visit our main site: un-naturalgas.org including: natural gas extraction FAQs lies, damned lies & statistics resources & documents images & video the organizers page events calendar already leased? contact us or support our work follow us on facebook To see current posts, please scroll down past the ‘sticky’ posts here at […]
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Where’s the beef? Gas industry jobs & taxes paid just don’t measure up to claims
Response to a WHYY report, New Numbers Show PA Gas Production Will Lead Nation. Ms. Phillips -.This series of Penn State Reports has used a false premise, that capital spending directly equates to jobs and taxes, to make highly exaggerated claims. The gas industry has a great need for capital but an extraordinarily low requirement for staffing, about 10% […]
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Libous sure knows what the DEC was up to
From the Desk of Senator Tom LibousApril 27, 2010 Dear ———-, DEC announced last week that permit applications in the Syracuse and New York City watersheds will be excluded from their environmental review process. All applications for horizontal drilling in these watersheds would need to be reviewed on a case by case basis. You can […]
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Expert: “The industry has too little concern for …….. public health, for our groundwater resources, and for facts.”
Letter published today in the Cleveland Sun Star Courier: by James W. Cowden, Guest Columnist Monday August 31, 2009, 9:24 AM This is being sent as a result of the several letters on oil and gas drilling that have appeared in your pages over the past month. The other paper has also published material including […]
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Gas industry in the neighborhood, or, How comfy …….. is your basement?
From Hedgehog Lane, Bradford Township, McKean County, PA: “There is a Crossett truck here this morning. The second that I saw it pull up, I closed every window because I knew what was coming. My house is currently full of vapors that are making me nauseous….even with every window closed, this is the result. What […]
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It’s deja vu all over again: Natural gas well leak in Lycoming County, PA contaminating streams, ruining home water supplies
PA DEP Investigating Natural Gas Well Leak In Lycoming County WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a natural gas well leak at an East Resources well in McNett Township, Lycoming County. “East Resources is cooperating fully with our investigation, and has already implemented measures to stop the […]
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Let’s not have to learn the hard way
We don’t have to wonder how New York State could be affected by HD/HVHF (horizontal drilling / high-volume hydraulic fracturing. All we have to do is look at what’s happened – and happening – in other states. Here’s a voice from the Barnett Shale in Texas: “We have learned that the industry we are dealing […]
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McKean County, PA: Does Schreiner’s ‘right’ to ……….. extract natural gas supersede residents’ RIGHT to clean water and safe homes?
Does Schreiner’s ‘right’ to extract natural gas supersede residents’ right to clean water and safe homes? And does the industry’s ‘right’ to process natural gas supersede the neighborhood’s right to clean air? These folks didn’t move into this neighborhood knowing their air and water was going to be ruined. They had good water and air. […]
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Why is Broome County hiring a lobbyist at taxpayer expense, against the interests of most of its citizens, to lobby for a wealthy & powerful industry that wrote the book on lobbying? (and does very, very well all by itself)
An e-mail from one citizen & taxpayer to Barbara Fiala: I am writing in regard to Broome County’s decision to hire a lobbyistto urge Albany not to get “bogged down” in its environmental review ofdrilling in the Marcellus Shale. The shale gas drilling techniques that have come into use over thelast decade were developed in […]
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‘Burdocks and oil’: How gas companies infiltrate and manipulate leaseholders & communities
The Daily Review, a Towanda, Pennsylvania newspaper, printed a truly regrettable editorial in their April 12 edition. It was titled, astonishingly, “Give gas firms a decent chance to do right thing.” I didn’t know such naivete was still possible. And I can’t say I can remember ever seeing such smarmy pathos in an editorial. The […]