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Local drilling activist reports intimidation after posting videos of mud spill
Vera Scroogins, an anti-drilling activist in Sesquehana County, says she was intimidated by employees of Laser Northeast Gathering Company, the firm building a pipline to carry gas across Pennsylvania.
Local drilling activist reports intimidation after posting videos of mud spill
Vera Scroogins, an anti-drilling activist in Sesquehana County, says she was intimidated by employees of Laser Northeast Gathering Company, the firm building a pipline to carry gas across Pennsylvania.
Earlier this week, the pipline spewed thousands of gallons of muddy drilling fluids into the Laurel Lake Creek, a creek near Scroogins, and which she visited a few days ago to film the mud spill. After posting those videos online, Scroogins says she was called by a neighbor who said two pipline workers knocked on his door at 7:30 A.M., giving a description of Scroogins, — "Gray hair and a red prius," — and asking for her contact information.
Then, she says, she was stopped while driving by the spill site by a pipline worker who mentioned the videos and told her she was "in trouble" for posting them:
"He wouldn't tell me who he was, and then he took off," Scroogins tells CP.
Scroogins says she spoke with Laser CEO Thomas Karam, and that Karam assured her that she was welcome to continue filming work on the pipeline as long as she didn't cross the right-of-way.
Here are the videos Scroogins posted. The first shows mud seeping into the creek, along with a few bales of hay placed in it apparently to filter the mud. The second, taken the next day, shows the creek filled with a thick layer of mud. The hay bales, apparently, weren't sufficient.
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