Fracking: Air Quality

Dr. Sandra Steingraber speaks about the effects of hydrofracking on air quality. There are harmful health effects which will compromise our children's future. Will we be able to spend more money on special education and health care for our children?

Heavy Fraffic

A clip from a movie called "Groundswell." Heartbreaking truths about what the gas industry is doing to us- destroying the life we wanted to live. David Kagan, a retired English and mathematics teacher, has lived in Pine Creek's southernmost village of Torbert since 1991. Here he talks about what the natural gas industry has done to him personally.

To read some of David Kagan's work, click here.

Gas Companies Used Diesel in Fracking

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Puppet Gas

Puppets dealing with the real truth about Gas Drilling and Fracking. The reviews are in. BRAVO! FABULOUS!  From Gas Drilling Truth..........

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Natural Gas Drilling: Nineteen Minutes in Dimock, PA

Hundreds of diesel truck trips are required to service each gas well, polluting the air with noxious compounds in diesel exhaust fumes. This quick little film captures 58 trucks on one road on one Fall afternoon in Dimock PA over a 19-minute period of real time. One truck, poignantly, carries fresh drinking water for a Dimock family whose water has been ruined by gas fracking.


Guitar music by Jason Shaw at www.audionautix.com, "Plantation" and "Mountain Sun," permission for use licensed under Creative Commons by Jason Shaw.

"19 Minutes in Dimock" © 2010 by Jane Prettyman, host of 'Public Comment' (username 'Dissenta'): http://www.pubcomm.blogspot.com/.