A recent meeting in Ashland County, Ohio, made it clear that anti-fracking activists there will be taking notes from their Pennsylvania counterparts in an effort to spread misinformation across state lines. At the meeting, Elaine Tanner – a member of the fake Tri-County Landowners Coalition...
Pennsylvania gubernatorial hopeful David Anspach (I – write-in) and a Chester County, Pa., anti-fracking group that is actively fighting the Mariner East 2 pipeline recently made the roughly three-hour trek to Susquehanna County to, according to the group’s website, “travel to areas that have been...
This past Friday the little town of Franklin Forks, Pa., was once again in the media spotlight. A handful of activists, mostly from New York and led by Vera Scroggins, caused a scene that actually prevented a family from receiving a water delivery from WPX...
I recently followed around yet another tour of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania given by none other than Vera Scroggins and Craig Stevens. A couple of New York Senators attended, including Senator Avella, who seemed particularly averse to hearing the truth about natural gas development. The group...
Tom Wilber recently wrote on the decline of journalism and surmised that phenomenon is resulting in limited media coverage of shale development requiring citizen journalists to fill the void. That’s one way of looking at the situation, albeit one that is slightly removed from recent...
Local activists have created a new group called Energy In Denial, playing on the Energy In Depth name in a naive attempt to take their grassroots efforts to a national level. Ironically, “Energy In Denial” couldn’t be a more fitting name for its founders, although...
Over the weekend, I went on another of those Vera Scroggins/Craig Stevens tours of Northeastern Pennsylvania — as an uninvited guest, of course. This tour was for the “benefit” of three New York State Senators from the New York City area, all of whom apparently...
The usual instigators in Susquehanna County were at it again this past week, blaming the natural gas industry for something that has occurred numerous times and long before Marcellus Shale was ever a household name. But why on Earth is the local media still falling...
The documentary FrackNation was screened yesterday in Montrose, Pa., as part of a local tour of screenings taking place this week. Director Phelim McAleer, who was present to conduct a question and answer session following the viewing, was met with a standing room only audience...
The producers of the documentary FrackNation have been touring the country to hold screenings and answer questions from viewers. They are in Pennsylvania this week with screenings in Philadelphia, Indiana, Scranton, and even in places like Montrose (Dimock) and Honesdale (Wayne County), both of which...
This week, natural gas opponents in the Town of Covert tried, unsuccessfully, to use an educational forum as an opportunity to demonize the industry. The forum was conducted by geologist and former Covert Town Supervisor Brayton Foster, who professionally handled all detractors and gave the...
The opponents of natural gas development seem to be getting stranger in their claims by the day. It appears they are being brainwashed into thinking everything under the sun occurring anywhere is a direct result of natural gas development. Want a laugh with your morning...