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Comment on Berks Gas Truth Applauds Bethlehem City Council’s Act 13 Action and Encourages Berks Officials to Follow Suit by admin

admin — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:30:26 +0000

Thanks, Gloria, but there are plenty of Lehigh Valley fracktivists to thank as well! As for the 30th, I’m still trying to confirm a location, so I’ll get lots more info out as soon as I have that. Thanks for offering to spread the word and for all your important work!!! Karen

Comment on Berks Gas Truth Applauds Bethlehem City Council’s Act 13 Action and Encourages Berks Officials to Follow Suit by Gloria

Gloria — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:23:25 +0000

Karen THANK YOU and Berks County fracktivists, this wouldn’t have happened without your actions & leadership. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Please send me more info on your May 30th forum, I’ll get it on our website’s calendar.

Gloria in Pittsburgh

Comment on Letter to our County Commissioners: Rethink the Impact Fee and Act 13 by admin

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:58:38 +0000

Thanks for your question. First of all, there is one energy market. All the talk about foreign vs. domestic markets is hogwash. We’re already exporting our natural gas to other countries. Second, our political leaders have been hiding behind filthy energy sources like natural gas, “clean” coal, and tar sands to avoid getting serious about renewable energy. In fact, Governor Corbett took money OUT of alternative energy because we don’t need it, he says. We’ve got natural gas, he says. Third, the real trade-off here is not natural gas for oil. It’s water for natural gas. We’re already fighting wars on this planet over water, yet we continue to squander our clean water in a thousand ways. The consumptive use of water in gas drilling is just one of them. You can live without natural gas. You can’t live without water. Will there ever be a safe way to extract it from the shale? I don’t know the answer to that, but I can tell you that it’s not being done safely now and I doubt the companies involved would want to spend the money to do the job much better.

Comment on Letter to our County Commissioners: Rethink the Impact Fee and Act 13 by D Sean Reilly

D Sean Reilly — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:24:14 +0000

Hi, I’m reading all this resistance to Marcellus gas drilling and at the same time hearing all the uproar on how we need to stop importing foreign oil. My head spins trying to understand how we can do both. Without developing our own natural resources here we are hostage to foreign oil suppliers/OPEC and this is also hurting our economy. CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHAT IS THE ACCEPTABLE METHOD TO DRILL FOR THIS ENERGY?

Comment on Commissioner Leinbach Responds to BGT’s Impact Fee Letter by Michael Shaw

Michael Shaw — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:58:00 +0000

Clearly these commissioners do not know as much as they need to know to be making decisions like this. Thanks for keeping them informed, KAren.

Comment on About Us by admin

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:15:59 +0000

Hi Karl!

Sorry I’ve been so slow in responding. I’m still catching up! Marcellus Shale Exposed was a huge success. We had 350 attendees, many of whom stayed for the afternoon task force sessions so they could remain involved in the movement. We currently have a video by Dr. Ingraffea embedded on our Resources page. It’s from an event last year. All of the talks at Marcellus Shale Exposed were recorded so we could share them with the public. As we get them, we’ll make them available. I’d love to get some of them on BCTV and, perhaps, PCN. I’ll be contacting them both when the videos are ready.

Thanks!
Karen Feridun

Comment on About Us by Karl Stimeling

Karl Stimeling — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:25:14 +0000

I am a retired chemist with a strong interest in the environment and the Marcellus shale issue. It was my hope to be able to attend the M S Exposed event — illness this week prevents attendance. Will Dr. Ingraffea’s talk be published or available online? On BCTV?
Wish you all an informative and successful weekend.

Comment on EPA Investigation Concludes that Fracking Contaminated Groundwater in Wyoming by admin

admin — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:55:17 +0000

Actually, you’re wrong and it’s been proven over and over. Methane released from the shale migrates to the surface where it has contaminated well water and groundwater in many, many cases. Don’t listen to me, though. Go to our Resources page and listen to Dr. Ingraffea’s talk. Dr. Ingraffea is one of a handful of people to have a doctorate in fracturing. Read the articles there on methane migration. Ingraffea was co-author on a paper by David Howarth. That paper is there, as is the study by Duke University provides a response to the industry’s denials. (Denials they make even though they have replaced residential drinking water they’ve contaminated with deliveries of clean water frequently.)

Comment on EPA Investigation Concludes that Fracking Contaminated Groundwater in Wyoming by Goat

Goat — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:19:32 +0000

Wow. Very uneducated about what fracking is. They are doing this thousands of feet below the surface. Any water down there is salt water. Not fresh water. Secondly fracking was developed because shale is a barrier rock. Nothing moves in or out of it. That is why they have to frack it. It will have thousands of feet of shale above the area they frack that the small amount of glycol in the water and sand can never get to surface water.

Comment on Welcome to Berks Gas Truth by Dona Pickard

Dona Pickard — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:02:05 +0000

Thanks a lot for the response! Yes, we are trying to avoid the danger – but are faced with very powerful lobbies, who say that accidents are very rare and exaggerated and that Americans are all very happy that the price of gas has gone down since the beginning of shale gas extraction and that we (the activists) are Russian agents, who want to preserve the gas dependence on Russia…

So, anyway, we’ll soon ask groups around the world to sign a support letter for our actions and a petition as well, I’ll let you know about that! If we can do anything specific for you, send an email!!