TROUBLED PROMISE

Three Great Articles by

Laura Legere

TROUBLED PROMISE:

Little oversight, looming problems

for PA gas insustry.

Click here

Impact of natural gas drilling

environmental woes could linger.

Click here

More than an eighth of

Lackawanna County land leased

to drilling companies,

more wells likely.

Click here

Much obliged to Laura & The Times!

Outstanding!

BLUE TARP BLUES BREAK

Sonny Landreth

An homage to my favorite

Louisiana Native Son

and slide guitarist extraordinaire

He wrote Blue Tarp Blues after Hurricane Katrina and toured to help raise money for the people back home.

Sonny will be playing outdoors in King of Prussia on August 1. Click here for info. Hope to see you there - there's really no one else like him.
Here's another song

STILL FRACKED

"New standards approved for salts in gas drilling wastewater - but it's still OK to discharge carcinogens!"

Isaiah Thompson

Philadelphia City Paper

Please click here to read the best perspective I've seen on yesterday's IRRC vote.

Way to go Isaiah!

DR SANDRA STEINGRABER - PT TWO

ITHACA SPEECH - JUNE 12, 2010

"I'm a biologist up at Ithaca College. I study carcinogens - chemicals that cause cancer."

"...nothing I've learned in the last 30 years of researching carcinogens scares me more than fracking."

"We all need now to be speaking about fracking."

"But I'm not just a scientist. I'm also a mother and a resident of this beloved place. And I'm not willing to be part of the fracking experiment. Are you?"

"And because my job as a parent is to keep my children safe from harm, my job as a parent is to say NO to fracking..."

"This is the struggle of our time. This is our chance to be heroic."

"Join me in letting our children and grandchildren know - letting all the generations that come after us know - that we ...did not play the role of Good Germans when the frackers arrived."

Please read here and spread this link around.

More on Dr Steingrabber to come.

DR SANDRA STEINGRABER - PT ONE

SHALE GAME

"... to use the world's ugliest gerund:

fracking."

"There are four stories to tell about it."

"The shale army has arrived."

"On the way home, walking on an unbroken sidewalk made of shale above an as-of-yet unshattered bedrock made of shale, my son said, 'We shouldn't wreck this place down, right, mom?' And his words drew a battle line across my heart."

Please read here and spread this link around. Sandra's voice needs to be heard here in PA.

More from Sandra on my next post - thanks.

COME ON DAD - HURRY!

I'm so sorry darling.

There's nowhere to go.

IS IT POSSIBLE?

We have left a Terrible Beast

for our young to face

I think they're feeling

abandoned & helpless & afraid

Please listen to them

Can we show them it's possible?

IS IT POSSIBLE?