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Shale-drilling industry, protests roll into town
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Shale-drilling industry, protests roll into town
Shale Gas Insight, the industry conference for the natural gas industry, is at the Convention Center again this year, starting this morning. And so, Shale Gas Outrage, the protest against aforementioned industry. Since my press credential request for Insight was denied (perhaps, not so surprising), I can only report on the outrage. Which, at a kick-off press conference this morning featuring residents living near (and even on) drilling sites along the Marcellus Shale, was going pretty strong.
Carol French of Bradford County says she and her neighbors were pressured and threatened into signing drilling leases on their land. "We were told it was our patriotic duty. It would create jobs and opportunities for our county, and it would allow our country to be independent from foreign oil." Instead, she says, she sees higher unemployment among community members, a loss of natural resources in the form of timber she once used to heat her home and contamination of her water, which is a chalky white. She held up a jar, pointing out that "it's very sandy, and it gels." She gets a rash when she drinks it; her cows drink the water, used for milk that is nonetheless sold commercially.
"We pray to god your water doesn't end up like this," says Craig Stevens, a Susquehanna County resident who pointed to a jug of water that was brown and murky, from a tap in Dimmock, Pa., where water deliveries were provided for a time by the gas company Cabot, but were since cut off. "The DEP and the EPA say this water is safe to drink. But it’s funny, no one will come to drink it -- not Gov. Corbett."
Schedule of events for Shale Gas Outrage below:
September 20th – 21st, 2012
Download this schedule (.pdf).
Thursday, September 20th SHALE GAS OUTRAGE: Stop Fracking Now — schedule
Press Conference 10 AM
Arch Street Methodist Church, Broad and Arch, Philadelphia, 19107
Main Shale Gas Outrage Rally 12 – 2
Outside Convention Center, Arch and 13th St., Philadelphia, PA 19107
Speakers include:
Performers include: Freebo, Bethany Yarrow, Rhetta Morgan.
March 2 -3
Starts at Broad and Arch St. Ends at Broad and Walnut St.
Blessing of the Waters 5pm (Interfaith event)
Arch Street Methodist Church, Broad and Arch, Philadelphia, 19107
Shale Gas Outrage After Dark 7:30 – 12pm (informal networking, connecting)
Come to the Rally to find out where we’ll be in the evening. Or email elizabeth.arnold@protectingourwaters.com
Friday, September 21st:
6:45am Friday Sunrise Intervention
Information here.
TWO CONFERENCES:
8:30am – 12pm Health and Gas Drilling Morning Conference
Registration is free. You must register by September 20th.
College of Physicians of Philadelphia 19. S. 22nd St. Philadelphia, PA 19103
Speakers include:
- Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, authors of “Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health”
- Raina Rippel, Southwest PA Environmental Health Project
- David Carey, PhD, Weis Center for Reseach, Geisinger Health System
1:30pm – 5:30pm Mini-Organizing Conference: “Freedom from Fracking 2012″
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