The ANGA describes itself as follows:
America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) represents 30 of North America's leading independent natural gas exploration and production companies. ANGA members are dedicated to increasing the appreciation of the environmental, economic and national security benefits of clean, abundant, American natural gas.
In a recent press release, they made the following statement:
Furthermore, after conducting tests in several waterways in the Marcellus shale area recently, the Pennsylvania American Water Co. found no indication that water had been impacted by Marcellus development.I received an e-mail on Tuesday, 5/17/11, from someone who had recently ( May 2011 ) paddled through the bubbling waters on the Susquehanna near Sugar Run in Bradford County. 259+ days after longtime local residents first noticed the bubbling, the Susquehanna's waters are still bubbling. I guess methane ( and who knows what else ) oozing from the bottom of a river in an area where several new wells have been drilled doesn't meet the NG industry's definition of "impacted".
I have been contacted by a major news organization that wants me to take one of their journalist/photographers on the river to see the bubbling waters. Additionally, I have heard from several sources that bubbling has been spotted at several new locations on the Susquehanna in recent weeks.
Time for a road trip.
Don- Where else is the river bubbling? How about upriver from Sugar Run just a ways? Our landing is upriver from Homet's Ferry and the old Rod and Gun Club site. Just wondering.
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Peacegirl: I've heard about several, mostly downstream from French Azilum. I did hear of another just a little upstream from Sugar Run. I'm planning a "River Sweep" this summer and will paddle from the NY/PA line down to Tunkhannock and try to locate/verify new bubbling spots.
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