"It Ain't Worth Dirt"

    
From the State Impact article:


It’s not clear when either methane migra­tion prob­lem will sub­side. A Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion spokesman said Shell’s efforts to plug the aban­doned well “could take some time.”
In a let­ter to the Clean Air Coun­cil about its Brad­ford County air qual­ity study, Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Sec­re­tary Michael Krancer said the Chesapeake-related sit­u­a­tion “is for the most part over.” (Read the let­ter at the bot­tom of this arti­cle.)

But StateIm­pact Penn­syl­va­nia doc­u­mented the migra­tion on Michael Leighton’s prop­erty — as well as con­sis­tent bub­bling in nearby Towanda Creek — four days after Krancer sent this let­ter. Leighton, who’s still deal­ing with reg­u­lar methane inspec­tions, clunky machines in his base­ment, and flam­ma­ble gas on his prop­erty, doesn’t feel like the sit­u­a­tion is “for the most part over.”
   
“The news­pa­pers keep min­i­miz­ing the dam­age here, but it’s here,” Leighton said, while point­ing out the bub­bling methane in the woods near his house. “And peo­ple think we’re rad­i­cals, but we’re not. We’re just upset about the con­di­tion of our prop­erty, and we want things fixed. I want my real estate back to where it was before.
  
And right now, it ain’t worth dirt.”


Those last four words sum it up rather succinctly...wouldn't you say? 
 
There's more coming, folks.