In my email this morning: “What does the future look like at Bloomsburg University? Share your thoughts at the Master Plan Open Forum TODAY Friday, Nov. 9, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Hartline Science Center, room 108. What’s a campus facilities master plan? A campus facilities master plan is a vision for the future development of a campus. It ensures that the physical environment, both built and natural, serves the needs of the university community, enables the institution to realize its goals, … [Read more...] about Letter to Bloomsburg University President Soltz: A Contract with Stantec is a Contract with Genocidal Profiteering

On October 10th of 2011, in response to the tremendous destruction of Hurricane Lee for my town, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding townships, I wrote a short piece titled ” Fracking, Floods, and Fools” (Fracking, Floods, and Fools | Raging Chicken Press). In it I speculated about what the next flood event might be like for a state whose rivers and creeks are imperiled by a tsunami made not of natural causes, but of the unnatural design of the genocidal profiteers of the slickwater … [Read more...] about Bring on the Hurricane. It Can’t Be Worse Than the Frack-Storm That’s Already Laying Us to Siege

It's flabbergasting that beautiful pictures of beautiful people and beautiful places can come from moments in time that expose destruction and tragedy. This protest--one of many now past and certainly coming--commemorates Occupy a Pipeline, this one PVR/Chief's Dehydrator Station in Beaumont, PA. PVR--the same corporation who, along with Aqua America, is responsible for the evictions of 32 families from their homes at Riverdale, Jersey Shore, PA. PVR--one more … [Read more...] about Occupy a Pipeline, PVR/Chief Dehydrator, Beaumont, PA, 10.15.12

It's difficult to capture the sense of palpable anxiety I felt taking these sets of photographs. This is the Janet Hock Road compressor construction site in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania that I have been documenting for about 10 months. It is simply staggering to witness the complete destruction of this once gorgeous vista, this small mountain now flattened, trenched, and riveted back together with pipeline.   Here is where it all began, March, 2012 (though in truth much … [Read more...] about Buried Beneath some Shrubs and Grass and Wildflowers is Nothing but Frack-Tastrophe: Compressor Station Construction, Janet Hock Road, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, 10.13.12

I am not able to be at Shale Gas Outrage in person--though I'd give an ARM to be--but I have been offered an AWESOME opportunity of three beautiful minutes to talk about one of the most important events in recent Pennsylvania Environmental and social justice history: RIVERDALE. Below are the remarks that will be read at the Shale Gas Outrage Rally--TOMORROW! If one sentence of these remarks encourages any of the maybes out there to GO to Philli, well, YEAH!!!!!!! See: Shale Gas … [Read more...] about SHALE GAS OUTRAGE=STANDING UP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE=THE ENVIRONMENT IS HOME TO US ALL

Posted at: http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2012/09/03/the-water-and-the-wine-five-minutes-to-speak-to-pennsylvanias-inergy-soaked-frack-tastrophe/.September 3, 2012 By Wendy Lee In the effort to come to grips with the tsunami that is hydraulic fracturing, it’s multiplying associated industries, its immediate and future consequences, and the almost overwhelming sense of urgency that attends every new report of another well, another compressor station, another water withdrawal, … [Read more...] about The Water and the Wine: Five Minutes to Speak to Pennsylvania’s Inergy-Soaked Frack-Tastrophe