Category: Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania’s Top Papers Ignore Controversial ‘Forced Pooling’ Fracking Law
A gas company is attempting to use a half-century old Pennsylvania law to frack underneath the land of property owners who refuse to allow the controversial practice of fracking on their land, yet a majority of Pennsylvanians may be unaware as two of the state’s top three newspapers have failed to mention the contentious issue. [caption id=”attachment_330546″…
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Case Studies Show How Shale Boom Hurt Health and Infrastructure of Four Communities
It’s been nearly a decade since the first shale fracking wells were drilled in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Since that time, there’s been pressure for more gas production in those states, as well as in Ohio, but a series of new studies show that the people who live near the booming industry aren’t always the…
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Court Order Allows Fracking Company to Ban Local Woman From 40 Percent of County
In Oct. 2013, Cabot Oil and Gas obtained an injunction against Vera Scroggins, who has been bringing the dangers of fracking to public attention for the last five years through her videos and bus tours of fracking sites in the county where she lives, Susquehanna County, PA. [caption id="attachment_329156" align="alignnone" width="500"] Vera Scroggins in front of a…
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Jon Stewart Highlights Earthquakes, Chevron’s Pizza and Other ‘Benefits’ of Fracking
Examining the pure lunacy within the excuses of pro-fracking companies, politicians and advocates is the only way the practice’s well-documented dangers could possibly make for a laughing matter. Naturally, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart took advantage of this last night with a five-minute, satirical report on the “Benefits of Fracking.” Of course, those benefits included…
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Protestors Arrested Halting Fracking Operations in Pennsylvania State Forest
In the pre-dawn hours, activists with Marcellus Shale EarthFirst!, Pennsylvania residents and students took action to halt Anadarko’s fracking operation in the Tiadaghton State Forest. Protestors blocked the only access road to a wellpad by locking themselves to barrels of concrete, preventing workers from entering the site. At this time the police have placed at least…