Gasland

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Bradford County PA, You Are Being Misled

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 [...]

The Wiliiamsport Sun-Gazette on Marcellus Shale

Protestors outside the Penn-Wells Hotel, Wellsboro PA

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 [...]

Marcellus Shale Issues in February Alone

Sayre Morning Times file photo

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 [...]

Fracking Good/Fracking Bad

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 [...]

Frack Your Wells and Fuck Your Water

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. [...]

Marcellus Shale and Natural Gas Drilling

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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, most [...]