Someone, I hope to hell, is voting against fracking in NY and PA. I'm trying something different on the blog today, an aggregate of Appalachian/rural interest links. I hope at least some of them are edifying. I hope too that people will send stories and poems and essays my way. Haven't had many submissions lately. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speaks for itself, no? Report: Firms commit 1,500 infractions in Pa. in 30 months STEVE MOCARSKY smocarsky@timesleader.com Marcellus Shale gas drilling companies have racked up nearly 1,500 environmental violations in Pennsylvania in the last two and a half years, according to a report released on Monday. The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association reviewed environmental violations accrued […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here's why. This is from the Keystone Edge site, a seemingly reputable outfit covering economic change and other programs in certain area of MI and PA. Some drillers, including Range Resources and Chesapeake Energy, are simply reusing their water. By the end of last year, Range was recycling all of its "produced" water, or the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Politicians propound challenge of gas growth is balancing fact, fiction Cheryl Clark writes in the Sun-Gazette: WELLSBORO, PA — As gas drilling protestors staged a vigil outside, state and federal legislators spoke about that hot topic Thursday at the Tioga County Development Corp.'s 14th annual Legislative Breakfast at the Penn Wells Hotel. The economic future of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to Steve Reilly at the Sayre Morning Times, the hits are already here and will keep coming. I'll link the whole article, but let me just cut to the good stuff (emphases mine): Several incidents and fines related to natural gas activity, including notable a spate of arrests stemming from overweight and oversize trucks, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This first article, basically a rehashed press release if you ask me, gives you the gas company perspective, as well as the web address of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a group of (wait for it–not government regulators, not community members, not EPA reps) gas companies (oh, we can trust them, big business has never screwed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why isn't anyone talking about this? Or am I not looking in the right places? And by the way, duh. Gas drilling in Appalachia yields a foul byproduct Map shows the Marcellus Shale formation in the Eastern U.S. (P. Prengaman — AP) By MARC LEVY and VICKI SMITH The Associated Press Tuesday, February 2, 2010; 2:40 PM HARRISBURG, Pa. — […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVNgwMGEObE&feature=player_embedded] This series of videos taken in Colorado tells me it's not just coal, either. In Northern Appalachia now (where I grew up) there has been a boom–maybe even a mega-boom–in natural gas drilling of the Marcellus Shale area, and particularly in my two home counties, Bradford and Tioga in Pennsylvania. From what I understand, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 0
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 1
