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$2 MILLION FOR A WATER LINE

July 28, 2013
$2 MILLION FOR A WATER LINE

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has awarded a $2 million Grant to extend a public water line to residents whose groundwater has been contaminated. Before you start smiling, and say I TOLD YOU SO to your favorite fracker – read the whole article HERE. The contaminated ground water has nothing to do with gas drilling. Huh? The $2 million grant is going to New Hanover Township in MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Montgomery County is under a PA State Legislature enacted MORATORIUM on gas drilling. There is NO gas drilling in Montgomery County – therefore the contamination is NOT from gas drilling. YET – the $2 million grant is being funded by ACT 13 IMPACT FEES. “This waterline project is being made possible through the cooperation, assistance and partnership of New Hanover Township, Superior […]

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FORCED INTO THE FRACKING POOL

July 3, 2013
FORCED INTO THE FRACKING POOL

The Pennsylvania Legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett are about to bestow another Gift to the Gassers. Senate Bill 259 is n Act amending the act of July 20, 1979 (P.L.183, No.60), entitled “An act regulating the terms and conditions of certain leases regarding natural gas and oil,” adding definitions; providing for payment information to interest owners for accumulation of proceeds from production, for apportionment and for conflicts; and making editorial changes.” The PA House vote was 167 Yeas, and 33 Nays. In the Senate the final vote was 48 yeas, and 2 nays. The Prime Sponsor of SB 259 was Senator Gene Yaw. GRANDPA’S OIL/GAS LEASE NOTE: SB 259 WOULD ONLY IMPACT PEOPLE WITH EXISTING OIL AND GAS LEASES. If you do not have a gas lease (old or new) […]

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Clean Harbors Spells Frack-Tastrophe for the Citizens of Sunbury: Sold Down the Susquehanna by Mayor Dave Persing

February 20, 2013

You have to wonder whether Sunbury mayor, Dave Persing, really has any very good idea—or even a glimmer of moral compass—about what might be involved in the Clean Harbors construction of a Marcellus Shale Waste Processing Facility smack-dab in the middle of that small city. Planned for the long-idled and stunning eyesore, the Knight-Celotex fiberboard thermal insulation plant shuttered its doors and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April, 2009 (Knight-Celotex files for bankuptcy » News » The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA), but had stopped operations way back in November 2008—well over four years ago. The 22-acre site was then purchased by John Moran of Moran Industries Warehouse and Distribution Services (Moran Industries) via a subsidiary company—JDM Acquisitions —for $525,000 in April of 2011—two years after the bankruptcy. But as early as January, 2011, it was clear that […]

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Dear Governor Corbett: Pennsylvania State System Universities are Not Training Depots and Employment Offices for the Extraction Industry. Settle the APSCUF contract NOW.

January 27, 2013

I’m as deeply committed a union member/activist as they come. Standing shoulder to shoulder with something like 500 of my fellow APSCUF (Associated Pennsylvania College and University Faculty) members in the frigid cold for several hours in peaceful (though loud—at least me) protest of a contract proposal offered by the State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) whose transparent aims are the conversion of the 14 PASSHE universities into training depots, public relations centers, and employment offices for corporate America may be Governor Corbett’s dream, but it’s not mine. It’s also not any of my colleague’s dreams to convert from substance to mere shadow the quality of the educational opportunity they’re now able to offer their students. No such quality can be maintained under the working conditions the governor thinks good […]

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