Category: Marcellus Shale Conference

Thank you so much for your energy, participation, and ideas at last weekend’s “Building a Stronger Movement: PA Statewide Conference on Gas Drilling” in Harrisburg. Your commitment to this cause and our powerful network is why we will win strong protection for Pennsylvania’s land, water, and air. But we’re not stopping there. We are going to get our cause out there in communities all across Pennsylvania so that the politicians will have to listen. Here’s what you can do: 1.       Join a statewide phonebank! On Wednesday night we will be running a statewide, non-partisan phonebank to get environmentalists out to vote. We need your help to make as many calls as possible. From home you can call out through a TOLL-FREE, 800 number and be connected to as many Pennsylvanians as you can. Go here to RSVP:  http://www.conservepennsylvania.org/environmental-phone-bank-october-27/ 2.       Plan an earned media event in your community this week. This… Continue reading

I’m sorry to be the one that brings this up, but… Pennsylvania: You have a gas problem. I’m probably not the only one that’s noticed the layer of rock a mile deep in the earth under you, filled with little bubbles of….well, to put it politely, “natural gas.” And I’m probably not the only one that’s noticed that there are multiple gas companies with heavy pollution records drilling mile-deep holes to crack that rock open with chemicals that cause nerve damage and leukemia and kidney damage…which are now beginning to leak into our waterways. I’m sorry. But it’s a problem, and we can’t really ignore it anymore. It’s not just the pollution… it’s also the quantity. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection expects that over the next 10 years, the state will be punctured with 30,000 of these unslightly drill wells, which each suck 2-5 million gallons of water from… Continue reading