“We simply can’t keep up,” said one inspector with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection who was not authorized to speak to reporters. “There’s just too much of the waste.”
While the existence of the toxic wastes has been reported, thousands of internal documents obtained by The New York Times from the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators and drillers show that the dangers to the environment and health are greater than previously understood.First, just as a reminder...remember this post?: Frackileaks. The major news organization that contacted me was from NYC. If a video of the Susquehanna bubbling methane shows up in the next few days, I'll at least understand why there was such a delay in this major expose' breaking. If not...so be it.
If you read nothing else today, read the New York Times article that is going viral on the Internet. Read every page, every caption and every quote. If you want to see what YOUR Government has been keeping from you...definitely take the time to read the entire article and the multiple links within it. If you don't become enraged, then you haven't read enough. This is 10x better than GASLAND winning the Oscar tonight, which if it does, would make this series of recent revelations - dare I say - a TriFracta?
The folks in Washington, Harrisburg, Canonsburg, TX, LA, OK, CO and parts elsewhere ( including the guys from Alexandria that keep visiting this blog ) cannot ignore this. This NYT expose' will cost the natural gas industry BILLION$ without another follow-up article being written. BILLION$. Let's watch for the Marcellus Shale Coalition's spin in the days ahead.
And if we re-elect the folks in Harrisburg and Washington who have allowed this to happen, then we deserve our fate.
Let's get rid of them all.
NOW.
Oh, and about the radioactive waters...
Earth Day 2010 - Harrisburg, PA
Rep. Don White should be the 1st to be evicted since he is attempting to grossly expand PA's leasing of our land...from The River Reporter: New state leasing proposed
ReplyDeleteHARRISBURG, PA — Sen. Don White, R-41, Indiana, has sponsored legislation to give the Department of General Services authority to lease tracts of land for mining, drilling or right-of-way for “indigenous minerals” such as natural gas, coal, oil, limestone and coal bed methane. The measure would apply to land owned by the transportation department and state-owned universities, but not to state parks and state forests and land owned by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission,
“The legislation is really about giving the commonwealth the option to develop resources and generate revenue that currently does not exist,” said Joe Pitt-man, White’s chief of staff. Payments or royalties would go to the state Environmental Stewardship Fund under the bill.
And we need not stop there, my friend. Any elected or appointed official who even thinks a supportive thought for this industry should be intercepted at their office door and prevented from wasting another cent of our tax dollars. It is time to kick *ss and take names.
ReplyDeleteFrom a recent editorial in the Standard-Speaker: "Gov. Tom Corbett made the right call recently when he approved $42 million in state spending to acquire the assets of the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard." This expenditure of scarce state funds is for the PHYSICAL assets of this waterfront operation that was about to close in 90 days. Google it. Why would team Tom-Tom want the state buy into a likely-to-fail shipyard? Any possible future as an LNG terminal? This domestic fossil fuel resource - our 'transition' fuel - is, to my mind, viewed as a global export by the industry. And probably the govt.
ReplyDeleteI usually don't sit still long enough to watch 7 minute videos but this one from the NYT reference is WELL worth it.
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