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UNITED SHALE ASTROTURF

June 27, 2014
UNITED SHALE ASTROTURF

With much fanfare and political photo-ops, the media was flooded with stories about a new pro-natural gas “grassroots” group back in march 2014. The name of the group is United Shale Advocates (USA). As was pointed out in GASROOTS – United Shale Advocates is far from being a grassroots organization. It’s gas-roots, or more to the point ASTROTURF. Astroturf groups are industry backed groups posing as “Grass”roots. In other words, just as Astroturf is fake grass, Astroturf groups are fake grassroots groups. More proof was found today in the form of a “Robo-email Blasts” urging members to write their legislators. They even tell the members what to write. Many gas-roots Astroturf groups, industry spokespeople, and supporters have accused Fracktivist groups of using Robo-email Blasts in the past. Somehow, when a […]

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FRACKING WITH ACID MINE WATER

December 6, 2013

Pennsylvania Legislature Senate Bill 411: Use of Acid Mine Water for Hydraulic Fracturing and Industrial Applications has been “re-referred” to Appropriations on December 4, 2013. CLICK HERE TO READ SB 411 Yes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (soon to be renamed the Fracksylvania Corporation), is considering allowing the Gas & Oil corporations to use ACID MINE WATER for their fracking operations. On the surface, and if you only read the industry and political puppet talking points, it may seem like a good idea. It reduces the need to use fresh water, and it seems to help with the acid mine drainage problem caused by the coal industry. In fact, these are the big talking points being rolled out. ORIGINS OF SB 411 The “brilliant” idea of cleaning up contaminated water by […]

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KNOW FRACK? Maybe!

November 6, 2013
KNOW FRACK? Maybe!

In following the Range Resources case involving water contamination of 8 families in Amwell Township, we learned: Range Resources Don’t Know Frack PA Department of Environmental Protection Don’t Know Frack Testing Labs Don’t Know Frack We’ve been subjected to the same tired excuse by the natural gas corporations of why they can’t tell us what’s in the fracking chemicals. It’s a trade secret. It’s proprietary information. Top and Bottom Secret. Hush Hush. Double super-dooper heavily guarded recipe. If they tell ya, they’ll have to kill you – but of course if they don’t tell you, it will kill you anyways. So who the frack knows what’s in the frack? After months of run around, excuses, and pleas for extension of time we find it’s the SUPPLIES who know what’s in […]

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GAS DRILLING MEETS MOTHER GOOSE

September 29, 2013
GAS DRILLING MEETS MOTHER GOOSE

If anyone thinks Fracktivists are not creative and do not have a sense of humor – the Dreadful Drilling Downers book will quickly dispel that belief. This is where Gas Drillers meet Mother Goose in a collection of short tales sure to having you nodding in agreement and perhaps wryly chuckling at its honesty. The tales include “Deal of a Lifetime”, “You Can’t Prove it”, “Label me Fracked” and “the Ballad of Crystal Stroud”. Each tale is beautiful illustrated and perhaps hints at our memories of being read bedtime stories on a cold winter’s night. But these tales carry a cautionary message drawn from stories of real people living the drill. Dreadful Drilling Downers takes a complex and dangerous subject and adds just enough butter and syrup to reach a […]

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TESTING LABS – DON’T KNOW FRACK Part 4

September 26, 2013
TESTING LABS – DON’T KNOW FRACK Part 4

Don’t Know Frack Part 1 Range Resources Don’t Know Frack Part 2 DEP-Don’t Know Frack Part 3 BREAKING NEWS: September 25, 2013 DEP FINES ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY $60,000 FOR VARIOUS VIOLATIONS Excerpts: The Department of Environmental Protection announced today it has signed a consent order and agreement with Microbac Laboratories of Pittsburgh, which requires the lab to pay a civil penalty of $60,000 and to conduct an independent review of its laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. Microbac Baltimore was accredited under DEP’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program to test and analyze drinking water, non-potable water, and a variety of soils, chemicals and liquids. During a DEP inspection in April 2013, DEP found a number of violations, such as failure to properly calculate holding times for samples; overall failure of management to provide […]

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DEP-DON’T KNOW FRACK (PART 3)

September 25, 2013
DEP-DON’T KNOW FRACK (PART 3)

Don’t Know Frack Part 1 Range Resources Don’t Know Frack Part 2 Michael Krancer was appointed as Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary by Governor Tom Corbett in 2011. Krancer resigned his position effective April 15, 2013 and returned to his old law firm of Blank Rome which represents a number of natural gas corporations operating in the Marcellus Shale. He is now head of Blank Rome’s Energy, Petrochemical & Natural Resources Practice. His famous quote, “At the end of the day, my job is to make sure gas is done and gas is done right” provided many observers a unique and different perspective as to the term ‘environmental protection’. According to DEP Compliance Report (i.e. violations) for dates between Jan 1, 2009 thru August 31, 2013, Range Resources […]

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RANGE RESOURCES-DON’T KNOW FRACK (PART 2)

September 24, 2013
RANGE RESOURCES-DON’T KNOW FRACK (PART 2)

Click here for Don’t Know Frack Part 1 With almost any issue facing us today we hear the mantra of needing transparency. The government needs to be more transparent, regulatory agencies need to be more transparent, corporations need to be transparent and the general public rallies behind the mantra. Political campaigns often carry a talking point or two about supporting and needing more transparency. Corporate advertisements and talking points will tout their transparency. Specific to the natural gas industry it appears they are about as transparent as the drilling mud from an inadvertent return to the surface, (i.e. drilling mud spill or blowout). In the A Motion for Contempt and for Sanctions in the Form of An Adverse Inference Docket No. 2011-149-R it was pointed out Range Resources ran to […]

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DON’T KNOW FRACK (PART 1)

September 23, 2013
DON’T KNOW FRACK (PART 1)

Note: Range Resources and Fracking Cocktail recipe issue will be presented in a series. It is recommended to go back and read previous posts (listed below) to be familiar with the background. What’s in Your Water? Don’t ask the PA-DEP DEP FrackWatergate: Questions PA Department of Environmental Protection FrackWatergate Tap Dancing with DEP – FRACK Watergate FrackFocus and Fig Leaves FracUNfocusED FracFocus Out of Focus? Harvard Law Says YES! Of all the issues about natural gas drilling, perhaps the one which has garnered the most media attention is water contamination and just what is in the fracking “water”. According to who in the industry you listen to, the amount of chemicals added to water and sand are between 0.5% - 0.9%. Each “frack” in the Marcellus Shale uses between 5-7 […]

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EVENT HORIZONS with Dr. Robin Falkov

September 16, 2013
EVENT HORIZONS with Dr. Robin Falkov

I’ll be joining Dr. Robin Falkov’s radio show starting tomorrow - Tuesday 9/17 and discussing the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania. Hope you will all listen. I’ll be a regular on Tuesdays from 10:30am-11am EASTERN TIME Go here: http://www.freedomslips.com/hifihome/schedule.htm Scroll down to EVENT HORIZONS Dr Robin Falkov time slot, and click on it, radio player will pop up FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/robin.falkov?fref=ts   M-F 10am-Noon ET, 7-9am PT listen & access archives @ www.freedomslips.com info & updates www.healthfreedomrights.com/eventhorizons.html

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NATURAL GAS TO “SPONSOR” FRACK-U

August 30, 2013
NATURAL GAS TO "SPONSOR" FRACK-U

With barely contained glee and snark, the Marcellus Shale Drilling News (i.e. think Rush Limbaugh sans Cigar) broke the news with a screaming headline “Cabot to Teach Hazelton, PA 9th Graders How to Frack“. NOTE: Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) is a subscription site, unless you have a subscription links will not give you access to the entire article HOWEVER there is a back door which allows you to real the entire article. Following these easy steps: Go to Google search Type in or copy/paste the headline title, in this case enter or copy/paste Cabot to Teach Hazelton, PA 9th Graders How to Frack Hit search and select the first result. Ok back to the story. Word spread about the Cabot classes pretty fast, and was a topic of dicussion at […]

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