Cartoon by John Cole, The (Scranton) Times-Tribune
http://blogs.thetimes-tribune.com/johncole/?p=1319
Used by permission.
$240,000 in fines and a one-year moratorium on drilling in a small rural township might make it seem that Pennsylvania state government is cracking down on natural gas drillers that compromise the environment and living conditions for local residents. Unfortunately, pitted against the millions in profits drillers stand to gain from extracting gas from the Marcellus Shale, it basically amounts to the cost of doing business.
Don't know what happened in Dimock? Click here for a start. Also search this blog for more information on the plight of Dimock.
In 1930, my greatgrandparents purchased a beautiful farm in Bradford County, PA, in a little hamlet called French Azilum. In the summer, we spent time there, resting, breathing in the fresh air, enjoying the wild flowers, the bright stars and planets on a clear moonlit night, and swimming in the Susquehanna River. If gas drilling is allowed to continue, Bradford County and all of Pennsylvania will be forever changed, ruined beyond repair.
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