Doug McLinko Tells It Like It Isn't: He's Proud That Bradford County Is Being Destroyed

Published on Jan 23, 2014 Doug McLinko Bradford County Commisioner testifies at the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) hearing in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on Jan.13, 2014 during public comment period concerning proposed revisions of Oil and Gas regulations.

Read the reader comments (scroll down below video). This man is not telling the truth in my opinion. Ask Max Chilson how wonderful gas drilling has been for him in French Azilum. Or farmer Carol French. Or David Bohlander of Wyalusing, PA. Doug McLinko is benefiting personally from gas drilling. He is leased.  My family owns unleased property in French Azilum (Bradford County), and I can assure you there is another side to this story.  Example:  Farm animals are dying and being born deformed, and farmers can't find customers for their organic produce.  That's just the tip of a gigantic iceberg. 

Other blog posts:
http://dearsusquehanna.blogspot.com/2011/02/doug-mclinko-everythings-comin-up-roses.html
http://dearsusquehanna.blogspot.com/2009/06/mclinko-goes-klunk-again.html
http://dearsusquehanna.blogspot.com/2012/10/bradford-county-farmer-what-happened-to.html
http://dearsusquehanna.blogspot.com/2013/01/drilling-gas-wells-affects-dairy.html
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2014/01/13/pa-dep-seeks-input-on-overhaul-of-drilling-regulations/

Truthiness can kill!

Ten Reasons Why Fracking Is Doomed

"Proponents of natural gas fracturing and oil drilling are delirious with joy over the ability to recover shale gas, which has brought down world gas prices and made the US a major player again. Likewise, North Dakota wells are set to produce up to 800,000 barrels of oil a day soon. (Although, since the world uses roughly 89 million barrels a day, and the US uses a fifth of that, and demand in Asia will likely spike in coming years, the ND addition is just not that much).

Fracking is dangerous to ground water purity, and both oil and gas, as hydrocarbons, contribute to global climate change, which is a dire threat to human well-being in coming decades and centuries.
But oil and gas triumphalists have another think coming. It is that the cost of generating electricity by wind and solar is falling rapidly. However hard they try to suppress government funding and tax breaks for renewables, Big Oil and Big Gas are doomed to lose, and in only about 4 years."

Click here to read the article by Juan Cole.

Natural Gas Industry: Garfield County, CO

Residents of Garfield County are sick and their animals are dying.  Watch this video from the New York Times.

Josh Fox on Democracy Now: Gasland Film

The environmental contamination and human health risk associated with the extraction of natural gas using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” was little known across the United States for years, until a documentary film brought the issue to the national stage. Josh Fox directed the film Gasland, which chronicles the devastation affecting communities where fracking is taking place and the influence of the natural gas industry over regulation of the techniques and chemicals used in the process. The industry aggressively attacked the film, especially when it was nominated for an Academy Award this year.

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! (seen on Free Speech TV, LINK TV, and online at democracynow.org) is a superb journalist who, in her words,  "goes where the silence is," and brings us the real news from all over the world.  Take a few moments to watch this interview broadcast on March 4, 2011. (The video here starts with Walter Hang of Toxics Targeting. Mr. Hang was also interviewed by Ms. Goodman on Friday.)