110 MILE BIKE RIDE TO FIGHT FRACKING

Peter Buckland of Sustainability Now Radio

in State College, PA will ride from

State College to Harrisburg to join the

Fair Budget March & Rally

on Wednesday, March 9.

The Rally will protest planned budget cuts

"We need to stand together with our allies

and fight for fairness."

Peter will then present a letter to the office of Governor Tom Corbett requesting a meeting to express his concerns and fears as a citizen and father about the many dangers

of gas drilling in our state.

" I will be riding my bike ~110 miles to Harrisburg from my house in Pine Grove Mills to do my own small part to stand up to Corbett and the gas companies. It just seems like the right thing to do.

"For me this is very personal because I love the forest

"It is also about the quality of our water and air and my hopes and fears as a father.

"I am riding my bike there because because it is better for the forest, for the person, for water, for air, for noise, for the climate, and for all of us than gas trucks, well-pads, natural gas, and frack water are. I am riding my bike because it means something better and brings me in touch with life and living. As a citizen of this commonwealth, the commonwealth's government should help me and my fellow common people to reach the common good.

"After the budget protest I plan to go to the governor's office and request a meeting with the governor.

"I just know that something must be done differently.

"It is a modest goal. Please join me if you can.

"With great hope..."  Peter Buckland

NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

WAY TO GO PETER

Peter's Message - HERE

Sustainablity Now Radio - HERE

GO GET'EM PETER

EPA GETS FRACKED

The New York Times

Drilling Down Part 3

E.P.A. Struggles to Regulate

Natural Gas Industry

HERE

'“It was like the science didn’t matter,” Carla Greathouse, the author of the study, said in a recent interview. “The industry was going to get what it wanted, and we were not supposed to stand in the way.”'

 "...the agency had planned to call last year for a moratorium on the gas-drilling technique known as hydrofracking in the New York City watershed, according to internal documents, but the advice was removed from the publicly released letter sent to New York."

"Asked why the letter about hydrofracking in the New York City watershed had been revised, an agency scientist who was involved in writing it offered a one-word explanation: “politics.”'

"Now some scientists and lawyers at the E.P.A. are wondering whether history is about to repeat itself, as the agency undertakes a broad new study of natural gas drilling and its potential risks, with preliminary results scheduled to be delivered next year."

POLITICS

&

MONEY

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows that the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking

Everybody knows that the captain lied

Everybody got this broken feeling

Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets

Everybody wants a box of chocolates

And a long stem rose

Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me baby

Everybody knows that you really do

Everybody knows that you've been faithful

Ah give or take a night or two

Everybody knows you've been discreet

But there were so many people you just had to meet

Without your clothes

And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it's now or never

Everybody knows that it's me or you

And everybody knows that you live forever

Ah when you've done a line or two

Everybody knows the deal is rotten

Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton

For your ribbons and bows

And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming

Everybody knows that it's moving fast

Everybody knows that the naked man and woman

Are just a shining artifact of the past

Everybody knows the scene is dead

But there's gonna be a meter on your bed

That will disclose

What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble

Everybody knows what you've been through

From the bloody cross on top of Calvary

To the beach of Malibu

Everybody knows it's coming apart

Take one last look at this Sacred Heart

Before it blows

And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

EVERYBODY KNOWS

NOW YOU KNOW

TIME TO DO SOMETHING

Big, Big Thanks to Ian Urbina & to Leonard Cohen

BLOGGERS AGAINST DRILLING

THERE'S A NEW BLOGGER IN TOWN

WATCH OUT

B.A.D. - HERE

THE TIME HAS COME

DO SOMETHING

EVEN FRACKING HOTTER

"It's the oldest game in public health:

if you don't want to know,

don't go looking for it."

Dr Irena Cech - University of Texas

KHOU NEWS TEXAS

KHOU I-Team report - HERE

FOX 40 - BINGHAMTON

Fox 40 report - HERE

MSC's Katheryn Klaber says:

"It has a half-life, where, um, over time,
and in some cases very quickly, um, 
that radioactivity, uh,  exists differently. 
I think that's what was really, um, left out of the article
that was a critical part of this compound."

WTF?

For some background and much more information
on radiation, water and drilling see my previous post:

REALLY FRACKING HOT - HERE

"It is in the interest of the gas industry ...
to ignore or minimize the existence of uranium."

"DRILLING DOWN" - AWESOME

The New York Times is publishing

the first of a series of investigative pieces

on natural gas drilling:

THE WASTE PROBLEM - HERE

"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.

"The documents reveal that the wastewater, which is sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle.

"Other documents and interviews show that many E.P.A. scientists are alarmed, warning that the drilling waste is a threat to drinking water in Pennsylvania. Their concern is based partly on a 2009 study, never made public, written by an E.P.A. consultant who concluded that some sewage treatment plants were incapable of removing certain drilling waste contaminants and were probably violating the law.

"The Times also found never-reported studies by the E.P.A. and a confidential study by the drilling industry that all concluded that radioactivity in drilling waste cannot be fully diluted in rivers and other waterways."

This outstanding report includes:

 an abundance of previously unrevealed documents

interactive features

a new video on drilling and air pollution

AND THIS

TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN PENNSYLVANIA

Interactive Map - HERE

Out of 149 wells mapped:

42 exceeded the federal drinking water standard for

RADIUM

4 exceeded the federal drinking water standard for

URANIUM

128 exceeded the federal drinking water standard for

GROSS ALPHA RADIATION

41 exceeded the federal drinking water standard for

BENZENE

It's no coincidence that this series begins on the same day as the Oscar ceremonies with Gasland competing for Best Documentary
and Mark Ruffalo for Best Actor.

A Documentary on Natural Gas Drilling

Ignites an Oscar Controversy

Time Magazine Story - HERE

"THE WAR IS JUST HEATING UP"

ARE YOU READY?

"HYDROFRACKED?" - ESSENTIAL READING

Abrahm Lustgarten

Hydrofracked? One Man’s Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling

Louis Meeks’ well water contains methane gas, hydrocarbons, lead and copper, according to the EPA’s test results. When he drilled a new water well, it also showed contaminants. The drilling company EnCana is supplying Meeks with drinking water. (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)

PLEASE

PLEASE

YOU MUST READ

THIS OUTSTANDING ARTICLE

Read Every Word

Then Read It Again

HERE

Thank You Abrahm: possibly the best I've seen

in nearly a year of reading about fracking.

DEEP GRATITUDE

&

BEST WISHES

TO LOUIS MEEKS

WAKE UP

DO SOMETHING

BUBBLING UNDER THE DRBC HEARINGS

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

DRBC PUBLIC HEARING

HONESDALE, PA

WBNG 12 NEWS:

"...with just about 600 wells already drilled.

Everything is going really well."

Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko

REALLY?

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

METHANE BUBBLES!

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER

SUGAR RUN, BRADFORD COUNTY

WENY-TV NEWS:

 

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

PA ENVIRONMENT DIGEST:

"On September 9 DEP issued Chesapeake a notice of violation for failing to prevent gas migration to fresh ground water and for allowing an unpermitted natural gas discharge into the state’s waters. DEP will determine future enforcement actions based in part on the speed with which Chesapeake eliminates the migrating gas."

Article - HERE

...tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock....

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER SENTINAL:

"I took a few minutes last week to write to the PA DEP and request a status of their investigation into what caused the bubbling in the Susquehanna River near Sugar Run ( Bradford County, PA ) that began on ~9/2/2010.

Here is the sum total of their response:"

Here is the Notice of Violation
sent to Chesapeake.

No sample results have been released

since the case is still under investigation.

Chesapeake Energy: Popcorn Anyone? - HERE

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

DRBC PUBLIC HEARING

HONESDALE, PA:

"This industry can't be trusted.
Everywhere they go
they've destroyed the areas,
they've destroyed the drinking water.
There's been problems
with water contamination
and full-on industrialization
in every area where they're doing it,"

Mark Ruffalo

LET'S GET REAL

COMMISSIONER DOUG McBUBBLEHEAD