Groundwater:
It's Fracking Important!
"This year's National Groundwater Awareness Week
may be the most important in it's 13 year history."
Inquirer Ariticle - HERE
GROUNDWATER ROCKS !!!
GET DOWN!
GET WITH IT!
BE AWARE!
Monday, March 12, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
FRACKING HOSED IN PA
“People of Pennsylvania have seen this before
from coal, from steel.
This state is used to getting hosed.
The people have to say,
‘We’re not going to be your playground.’”
Cuomo and Corbett Ignore
Health Concerns From Gas Fracking
"In the face of official calls for “future studies” of how high-volume hydro fracking might affect human health, states like Pennsylvania and New York have avoided these issues.
"In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett and the Republican political establishment have eagerly embraced fracking, touting its economic benefits and downplaying its possible health consequences. Corbett’s 52-member advisory panel on Marcellus Shale drilling has no members with health expertise, according to a recent analysis by professors at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health. (Neither do advisory panels on gas drilling for the state of Maryland and for the U.S. Secretary of Energy.)
"New York State, which is poised to allow high-volume hydro fracking of shale formations as soon as it completes its final rules, has rejected repeated calls for a thorough study of the health implications of fracking."
DC Bureau Article - HERE
Natural Gas Drilling Began...
"...neighbors noticed that their well water began to smell. Then came the headaches, skin lesions, and diarrhea, in household after household. A two-year-old dog fell over dead."
“We’re talking about little children that have nosebleeds, cats that fall off windowsills,”
"Some experts are concerned that the chemical make-up of the witches brew used to force gas from rock is at the heart of these health problems."
"...future studies should explore “all the ways people can be exposed, such as through air, water, soil, plants and animals.”
"Typically, the subject animals suffered death or reproductive problems after drinking water from contaminated wells, ponds or streams. Humans suffered from burning of the eyes, nose and throat, headaches and dizziness, rashes, vomiting and diarrhea. In one case, a boy missed a year in school due to an illness that was attributed to poisoning from arsenic, a common ingredient in frackingflowback."
"...drillers have been known to compensate owners for animal deaths or illnesses in exchange for their legally binding silence."
"...seen patients complaining of nosebleeds, rashes, headaches and fatigue, among other symptoms."
"...many of the wealthier, more educated local residents who have health problems are suing gas companies. Generally, the poor who are sick – many of whom live within 1,000 feet of a compressor station or an open frack pond – are fending for themselves because state and local health officials seem overwhelmed."
This is how an angel dies...
Maybe I should cry for help...
Maybe I should SAIL
Words are failing us...failing me...
I am way beyond beside myself...
This is all... way beyond everything
This is all... way beyond everything
watching...waiting...
out in the cold
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
LITTLE CHILDREN...
WAKE UP
Thursday, March 1, 2012
THE BIG FRACKING BUBBLE
"We're the biggest frackers in the world."
"We frack all the time...
what's the big deal?"
Aubrey-Speak
Awesome article by Jeff Goodell
Rolling Stone
"...at heart, he's driven by the same dream of endless extraction that has gripped oil barons and coal companies
since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
In the end, all his talk of energy independence
and a bigger, brighter future boils down to a single demand,
as simple as it is disastrous:
drill, baby, drill"
Aubrey wants what they all want...
Aubrey, we all know you're out there...
Can you feel the resistance?
Monday, February 27, 2012
THERE AND FRACKED AGAIN
"THINGS ARE IN THE SADDLE...
AND RIDE MANKIND"
Riding Through the Rainbow Fog Earl Biss
EVERY DAY IS A CARNIVAL, EH?
ARE YOU ENTERTAINED?
"To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know.
And what you own is what you do not own.
And where you are is where you are not."
ts elliot
"You can observe a lot by just watching." Yogi Berra
WAKE UP
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
eXtinction
Summer Rayne Oakes
Born near Scranton in 1984...
Same age as my oldest daughter...
When I was born,
Nature was already dying.
At the age of five,
Only half of the wetlands in the US remained.
When I was only ten,
Almost half of the world's forests had been destroyed.
By the time I was twenty,
The world's oceans had over 400 dead zones
Where no life could be supported.
When I turned twenty six,
Tens of billions of pollenating insects had died worldwide.
By the time I am forty,
Half of the Amazon Rainforest will be eliminated.
By the time I am fifty,
Lions will be extinct in the wild.
By the time I am sixty,
Many of the world's glaciers will have disappeared.
By the time I am seventy,
Ninety five percent of the world's coral reefs will have died off.
By the time I am eighty,
Two billion people will not have access to clean water.
By the time I am ninety,
Nine billion people will live on the planet,
It would take three entire Earths to sustain them,
We will not even have one.
By the time I leave this Earth,
The Nature I knew and loved,
Will be gone.
"And our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical branch-point in the history. What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well.
But, we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe,
and to carry us to the stars."
Carl Sagan
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
FRACK THE SRBC
SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION
Commission Meeting and Public Hearing
Thursday, December 15 at 8:30 am
Best Western East Mountain Inn & Suites
2400 East End Boulevard - Route 115
Wilkes Barre, PA
Public Hearing agenda includes
26 applications for water withdrawals:
By the Frackers
For the Frackers
& Only the Frackers
SRBC Notice - HERE
Further Information and Talking Points:
Protecting Our Waters - HERE
EVERY PERSON COUNTS, SO...
PLEASE
IN THE MEANTIME...
469 DAYS
AND METHANE IS STILL BUBBLING AWAY
Bubbling Videos on Dear Susquehanna - HERE
IN THE MEANTIME...
Bradford County has become a...
TOTAL SACRIFICE ZONE
Bradford County current and proposed gas lines and ancillary infrastructure.
TAKE A HARD LOOK...
Inquirer Map - HERE
Inquirer Deep Drill Series - HERE
IN THE MEANTIME...
From Sandra Steingraber,
Selected quotes from recent interview:
Note: Sandra won the $100,000 Heinz Award
for significant achievements benefiting the environment.
"$100,000 is NOTHING to the big boys in the corporate natural gas world. The only way money will work if it will also embolden others to do big things."
"We’re at the 11th hour now. The moratorium was here before, but now that's over. Now is the time if you don’t want to be fracked. As a cancer survivor, whatever money I have ends up going into paying medical bills. When you live in an area surrounded by frackers, what point is it to even try to do that if the water, air, community, etc., will be gone and destroyed and the area becomes a toxic wasteland?
"So, what better use of money than to defend and protect this place? I couldn’t think of better thing to do, with even more of a public platform, to highlight lunacy of fracking. I want others to feel that they shouldn’t give up before they start the fight. Self-defeatism is what’s beating us — learned helplessness — beats us even more than the formidable power of natural gas industry.
"Whatever I can do to get people out of that place — if you want to be the hero, now’s
your chance. I hope to use the money to open up space for speech, and not silence."
BE SEEING YOU...
AT THE HEARING
John Seller Map - 1690
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