Pennsylvania

Pa. Regulators Fail To Protect Environment in Marcellus Shale Boom

October 27, 2015 Candy Woodall, www.pennlive.com Educate! Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania

By Candy Woodall for Penn Live - They struck gold. It was a river of energy under our feet so large it promised to end America's dependence on foreign oil. The Marcellus Shale would provide a seemingly endless supply of natural gas that would boost Pennsylvania's economy and, in a recession, create jobs in great numbers. Lawmakers were hungry for the gas trapped in rock as deep as 9,000 feet below ground and quickly set energy policies aimed at balancing economic growth with environmental protection. But the scales tipped too far in favor of industry.

Pennsylvania Residents Hire Attorney To Protect Anti-Fracking Law

October 9, 2015 Mary Grzebieniak, www.ncnewsonline.com Resist! Fracking, Pennsylvania

By Mary Grzebieniak for New Castle News - A group of residents is trying to stop Wilmington Township supervisors from amending their fracking ordinance. The group has hired attorney John M. Smith, the lawyer who won a landmark decision in the Robinson Township case which overturned parts of Act 13, the state's oil and gas drilling law in 2013. They are trying to stop the supervisors from weakening the township's 2014 ordinance governing gas and oil drilling. That ordinance, which is still in effect, is the strictest in Lawrence County and provided restrictions that exceed state Department of Environmental Protection rules. But several amendments have been proposed to the ordinance which residents say will weaken it considerably.

Faculty Of Colleges Urge Gov. Wolf Take Action On Climate Change

August 26, 2015 Resist! Climate Change, Education, Fracking, Pennsylvania

By Ad Crable in Lancaster Online - Some 33 faculty members from three colleges in Lancaster County have sent a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that stresses the validity of climate change and endorses President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan to cut carbon pollution at coal-fired power plants. The 33 from Franklin & Marshall College, Elizabethtown College and Millersville University also urged the EPA to adopt strong rules to capture methane pollution from oil and gas drilling, which they said was quickly becoming a major driver for climate change. “Without a planet that can sustain us, nothing else matters,” said Sarah Dawson, director of the Wohlsen Center for Sustainable Environment at F&M.

Read Mumia

July 13, 2015 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Educate! Education, Free Mumia, Liberation, Mass Incarceration, Media, Pennsylvania, Torture

By David Swanson - Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a school and make him dean. And if you won't free all the prisoners, free one who has been punished to a level that ought to satisfy any retributive scheme for any crime he might have committed. And if you won't do that, free him because he was put into prison by a fraudulent and corrupt trial that hid as much evidence as it revealed, and fabricated the latter. More importantly, Read Mumia. His new book is calledWriting on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and it includes commentaries by Mumia from 1982 through 2014. Mumia went ahead and made his prison a school -- a school in history, in politics, and in morality. And his own moral teaching is primarily by example.

Shale Story Of Michele Beegle: PA Farmer, Nurse, Grandmother

June 27, 2015 Michele Beegle, www.shalefieldstories.com Educate! Environment, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania, Water

By Michele Beegle in Shalefield Stories - Gas drilling started in our area around 2002. Pennsylvania General Energy Corp (PGE) drilled five production wells, 2002 being the first well. We were lied too from the start. We were told these wells would last for 10 to 15 years. The one they drilled on our land, SR 6, only lasted 2 ½ years. We were lied to from the start. Then PGE sold to this company Steckman Ridge, a spin-off of Duke Energy. Steckman Ridge has become a real life nightmare. This company has plans to put in 23 wells, for storage of gas, and built The Spectra Energy facility – known as Steckman Ridge – is a 12-billion cubic feet underground natural gas storage reservoir with a 5,000 horse power compressor station, 13 injection/withdrawal wells and related pipeline infrastructure in Monroe Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.

Misleading Fracking Job Numbers Exposed In Pennsylvania

June 18, 2015 Marie Cusick, www.stateimpact.npr.org Educate! Environment, Fracking, Pennsylvania, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Marie Cusick in NPR - Somehow Pennsylvania lost 160,000 gas industry jobs overnight. What happened? Did drillers flee at the specter of a new tax on production? Not quite. Although companies have been laying off workers and cutting costs– lackluster market conditions don’t explain this shift. Instead, it was a decision made under Governor Wolf’s new administration. Last week the state Department of Labor and Industry quietly changed the way it tracks employment in the Marcellus Shale industry. “Those numbers were a joke,” says John Hanger, Wolf’s secretary of planning and policy. ”The errors were so glaring, they had to be changed.” Wolf’s predecessor Tom Corbett, a Republican, often credited drillers with supporting more than 200,000 Pennsylvania jobs.

Residents ‘Terrified’: Williams Transco Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture

June 12, 2015 Emerson Urry, www.environews.tv Resist! Environmental Justice, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania, Pipeline

By Emerson Urry in EnviroNews — A group by the name of Beyond Extreme Energy sent in a fresh-on-the-wire press release to EnviroNews USA on June 11, 2015. The subject: Ongoing outrage and fear, near the Pennsylvania community of Unityville, over a Williams Companies, Inc., natural gas spill on the Transco pipeline two days ago. Local media reported the incident occurred on tuesday night at around 9:40 P.M. and that residents up to a mile away were rocked by an explosion followed by a prolonged “jet engine” type sound and the smell of gas. In turn, the incident resulted in a fearful disorientation throughout the surrounding communities. As many as 130 nearby residents were evacuated from their homes for “several hours,” according to the Lancaster Online.

Constant Pressure Forces PA Governor To Meet Frackactivists

May 24, 2015 Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Fracking, Pennsylvania, Protest

Frontline community members, scientists, and environmental advocates met with Governor Tom Wolf and members of his cabinet to urge him to halt shale gas extraction statewide to allow for a comprehensive assessment of its short- and long-term impacts on the Commonwealth. “It was encouraging to know that he’s willing to listen to citizens’ concerns. Now if only he would act now and soon before more Pennsylvanians are harmed. His policies shouldn’t be at the expense of healthy communities and healthy families. Pennsylvania families should be safeguarded, not sacrificed,” said Jenny Lisak, Co-Director of Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air, a Pennsylvanians Against Fracking steering committee member. “I was thankful for the welcoming reception we received from the Governor for this introductory meeting and am motivated by his offer to follow up with a more substantive, comprehensive engagement. As this process moves forward, I strongly urge that the Governor focus on and address the human health impacts currently being suffered by his citizens and take immediate action to protect them,” said Yuri Gorby, Ph.D., a Rensselaer Polytechnic microbiologist.

Pennsylvania Groups Demand Voice In Oil & Gas Decisions

March 28, 2015 Clean Air Council, www.cleanair.org Resist! Democracy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania

Residents living in the shale fields and public interest groups are outraged at the latest comments from the Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association (PIOGA). Last week, Kevin Moody from PIOGA stated at public hearings with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) that public interest considerations “have no place” on oil and gas oversight bodies. In response to PIOGA, residents in the shale fields and public interest groups are renewing their calls for full public participation in the changing oil and gas regulations. “They finally said it out loud,” said Joseph Otis Minott, Esq., Executive Director of the Clean Air Council. “This confirms that the industry wants to be regulated only by itself.

Environmental Groups Align To Challenge FERC Pipeline Projects

March 13, 2015 Michael M. Barrick, www.appalachianchronicle.com Resist! Environmental Justice, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania, Pipeline, Water

The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) and three other environmental groups based in other Appalachian states have joined forces to challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for not properly informing the public regarding the construction of proposed natural gas pipelines throughout the region. The alliance includes: Huntington-based OVEC; the Allegheny Defense Project in Pennsylvania; the FreshWater Accountability Project in Ohio; and, Virginia-based Wild Virginia. In a news release, the alliance stated, “The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is not informing the public about the big picture when it comes to natural gas infrastructure projects related to increased gas drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations.”

Quakers Force PNC Bank To Stop Investing In Mountaintop Removal

March 3, 2015 Green PNC, www.eqat.org Resist! Environment, Faith, Mountain Justice, Pennsylvania

Bowing to pressure from Quaker environmentalists, today PNC Bank announced that it will be restricting financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The shift outlined in its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report means PNC Bank will effectively cease its investment in this controversial practice. In 2012 PNC Bank financed Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal, CONSOL Energy, and Patriot Coal, which together were responsible for nearly half (44.97%) of Appalachian mountaintop removal production (1). PNC’s total investment was $687.5 million for that year. The grassroots group leading the charge for PNC’s new policy, Earth Quaker Action Team, hails the change as a major shift by the seventh largest US bank. “When we initiated our campaign in 2010, PNC attempted to placate us with a hollow policy. It’s good to see that PNC Bank is now taking meaningful steps,” says Matthew Armstead, staff coordinator for EQAT.

Fracking Opponents Feel Police Pressure In Some Drilling Hotspots

March 2, 2015 Marie Cusick, www.npr.org Resist! Fracking, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania

Wendy Lee, an anti-fracking activist and philosophy professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, has always protested peacefully. So she was stunned last winter when a state trooper came to her home to ask her about eco-terrorism and pipe bombs. The trooper was investigating an alleged trespassing incident that involved Lee and two other activists visiting a gas compressor in Pennsylvania's Lycoming County in June 2013. Lee says they stayed on a public road and left when security guards told them to go away. Lee was never charged with anything and believes the trooper's visit was intended simply to intimidate her. "They're clearly there to send the message that they protect the industry," she says. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been controversial in the U.S. since the business began to boom.

“Stop In The Name Of Love” As PNC Locks Down Regional HQs

February 12, 2015 EQAT, www.eqat.org Resist! Coal Mining, Energy, Environment, Mountaintop Removal, Pennsylvania

On Monday, February 9, Earth Quaker Action Team demonstrated their love of the mountains and the earth with a Valentine’s Day themed protest at PNC Regional Headquarters, 1600 Market St, Philadelphia. The group called on PNC Bank to stop financing companies engaged in mountaintop removal coal mining, a horrific practice that poisons Appalachian communities and contributes to climate change. The protest, which prompted the bank to lock down for several hours, was in conjunction with the 10th annual I Love Mountains Day(1). The forty-two people present ranged in age from 8 to 86. Some had traveled from Miami, Pittsburgh, and New York for a weekend training, intending to prepare for further action back home.

Lancaster County Pipeline Protesters Plead Guilty To Trespassing

February 9, 2015 Marie Cusick, www.stateimpact.npr.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Law, Pennsylvania, Police

Eight protesters who were arrested for opposing an interstate natural gas pipeline in Lancaster County pleaded guilty to trespassing Thursday and each paid a $100 fine. The demonstrators were arrested January 5th after they linked arms and refused to leave a site where Oklahoma-based Williams was doing testing for its proposedAtlantic Sunrise pipeline. The protesters included members of the Northern Arawak Native American tribe who claim Williams was improperly drilling test bores on sacred grounds in Conestoga Township. The group, which calls itself the Conestoga 8, rejected a deal to have all charges dropped against them if they promised to stay off the property, which is owned by PPL.

In Fracking Hot Spots, Police & Industry Share Intel On Activists

February 4, 2015 Marie Cusick, www.stateimpact.npr.org Resist! Fracking, Pennsylvania

Last month an anti-fracking group settled a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, after it was erroneously labeled a potential terrorist threat. The case dates back to 2010 and was an embarrassment for then-Governor Ed Rendell. But documents obtained by StateImpact Pennsylvania show law enforcement here and in other parts of the country continue to conduct surveillance on anti-fracking activists, leading some to claim their Constitutional rights are being violated. It’s not hard to tell Wendy Lee is an animal lover. When I arrived at her home in Bloomsburg, I was greeted by several dogs, an iguana the size of a cat, and three birds. With her cockatiel, Quantum, by her side, she showed me her blog. Lee is a 55-year-old philosophy professor at Bloomsburg University and proud anti-fracking activist. “My long history of political activism is on the left,” she says. “I am the author of books with titles like ‘On Marx’ if that gives you an idea.”

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