What’s most striking about Energy in Death’s Joe Massaro’s latest hit-piece, Corbett's Corner Hears From Local Natural Gas Fractivists | Energy In Depth – Northeast Marcellus Initiative is that he writes as if he’s all ready for the backlash his patently absurd essay would naturally receive—but he knows he’ll have to deal with no such thing. That must be a hell of a confidence builder! He’s got all the moxie of a guy who thinks he’s scored big. The problem is that he rigged the … [Read more...] about Bait You, Gut You, Eat You While You’re Still Alive: The Landmen Energy in Death Will Do Anything to Get To Your Farmhouse Door
Fake “Community” Meeting: EXCO Lookin’ for Some Love-Money
*POST ALSO INCLUDES UPDATES AS THIS STORY OF THE ABUSE OF PUBLIC SPACE AND TAX DOLLARS UNFOLDS. The more I think about this meeting, the angrier it makes me. Here's why: The meeting was specifically advertised at Marcellus Drilling News as a "Community Meeting." Here's the full announcement: 2013-01-08 EXCO & Sullivan County Energy Task Force Meeting – Laporte, PA Bookmark January 8, 2013 (Tue) 7:00 pm DCNR State Forest HQ Route 220, Laporte, PA SULLIVAN COUNTY ENERGY … [Read more...] about Fake “Community” Meeting: EXCO Lookin’ for Some Love-Money
DEP Permit Hearing: Moxie Patriot Power Plant, Clinton Township, Lycoming County, PA,1.3.13
This set of photographs canvases the DEP hearing for public input on the construction of a huge (944 MW) natural gas power plant in Clinton Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. For the full set, please see: (11) DEP Permit Hearing: Moxie Patriot Power Plant, 1.3.13 The plant would not only be constructed near residences and the Muncy Women's Prison, the site is located on a 100 year flood plain. I find this deeply ironic given that the 100 year flood designation is accelerated by the … [Read more...] about DEP Permit Hearing: Moxie Patriot Power Plant, Clinton Township, Lycoming County, PA,1.3.13
Energy in Depth’s Soldiers of Fracking- Fortune: Why We Must Understand Who They Are and What They Do
The following includes the opening lines from a longer piece posted at Raging Chicken Press. org: Energy in Depth’s Soldiers of Fracking- Fortune: Why We Must Understand Who They Are and What They Do | Raging Chicken Press The piece also includes 29 photographs shot over the last year of the Pennsylvania and New York anti-fracking movement. They depict what, for me at least, are a few significant events of 2012: The Construction/protest of the Janet Hock Road Compressor Station, Sulllivan … [Read more...] about Energy in Depth’s Soldiers of Fracking- Fortune: Why We Must Understand Who They Are and What They Do
Being Banned for half a minute from Energy in Death’s Facebook Page
First, the banned Yesterday (12.26.12), I was banned from the EID--Marcellus Facebook page. The evidence: all of my posts on the Facebook page had been removed, including comments; I could no longer post on that page; when I posted on my Facebook page that I had apparently been banned, the Energy in Depth site administrator, Tom Shepstone, acknowledged it both at the EID-Marcellus website thread posted below and in email to me. I wrote the following: Dear Facebook friends and … [Read more...] about Being Banned for half a minute from Energy in Death’s Facebook Page
Energy in Death (Depth) Refuses Dory Hippauf Hit-Piece Award: Joe Massaro opts for Silence over Truth
On December 12, 2012, Dory Hippauf gave an excellent presentation at the regular meeting of the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition (Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition Luzerne County PA HOME). In it she profiled the money-soaked and influence driven connection between the gas industry and its sponsors in and out of government. She included the history of Energy in Depth: (Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players – Part 3). Joe Massaro, one of EID's "field director" hit-men was … [Read more...] about Energy in Death (Depth) Refuses Dory Hippauf Hit-Piece Award: Joe Massaro opts for Silence over Truth
L’Eau DeBenedictis: Aqua America, Water Insecurity, The Manufacture of Scarcity, and Fracking
Merely “surreal” might describe the interview given by Aqua America’s CEO, Nick DeBenedictis, to Crissa Shoemaker DeBree did the fact that he is lying not portend such devastating consequences for so many people. The security of the nation’s water supply is an important, but often silent, priority for water companies, said the head of Aqua America. The worldview evinced in DeBenedictis’ brief interview with DeBree is not, in fact, surreal; it’s not even “merely” self-deluded. Rather, it … [Read more...] about L’Eau DeBenedictis: Aqua America, Water Insecurity, The Manufacture of Scarcity, and Fracking
Green-Washing and Gender-Sanitizing Fracking: Rachael Colley and Nicole Jacobs of Energy in Depth
One example of the complicity of some women in the promotion of the extraction industry is the exchange between Nicole Jacobs, Rachael Colley, and myself concerning my piece, "The Good Ole' Boy Extraction Club, (YouTube: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine). The exchange is interesting because it highlights the extent to which women who might in some ways … [Read more...] about Green-Washing and Gender-Sanitizing Fracking: Rachael Colley and Nicole Jacobs of Energy in Depth
Response to Joe Massaro, Energy in Depth, 11.18.12
In his hit-piece concerning the lecture I offered at Susquehanna Univesity, Monday 11.12.12 ( http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/11/14/youtube-the-good-ole-boy-extraction-club-the-pseudo-patriotic-and-pervasively-patriarchal-culture-of-hydraulic-fracturing-why-breast-cancer-is-the-canary-in-the-fracking-coal-mine), Energy in Depth's Joe Massaro insists that civil disobedience is the province of the child, that adults never engage in an exercise of their right to freedom of expression if it … [Read more...] about Response to Joe Massaro, Energy in Depth, 11.18.12
YouTube: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine)
Enclosed is a Susquehanna University presentation of parts I-II of a longer research paper I will be posting in segments here and on Raging Chicken Press over the next two weeks. The title is: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine). The first section of the paper profiles the links between fracking, benzene exposure, and breast cancer with particular … [Read more...] about YouTube: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine)
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