Meetings in Plymouth, New York have turned into a “let’s see who drove here today” phenomenon as natural gas opponents ask Pennsylvania residents to drive over an hour to talk for five minutes to a board who has already decided to wait on the DEC’s...
** Unfortunately this post contains a video with language that is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion in watching the video If you thought the Sierra Club’s endorsement of anti natural gas activist, Vera Scroggins, in a recent letter, was bad because of...
The celebrity tour of Dimock has been in and out of the news for the past few weeks. But, with all these natural gas impacts the celebs reported seeing, what about the many things that never even got a mention? It’s been a couple of...
** Unfortunately this post contains a video with language that is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion in watching the video Sometimes the other side in the natural gas debate makes the best case for our side. If you are looking for an...
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, together with a host of other characters, jumped into two Mercedes vehicles to head to Dimock and campaign against natural gas in New York, the same natural gas that heats the home of the Beatles beneficiaries. Yesterday, Tom and I...
Natural gas opponents Bill Huston and Vera Scroggins reveal a contempt for job seekers and careers that lies at the heart of their natural gas opposition. It’s got little to do with the environment, except as a tool to achieve their broader goal of reshaping...
The Plymouth Town Board held its regular monthly meeting this week with a surprise visit from natural gas opponents from Pennsylvania. They offered no new facts, no minds were changed and when it was over, well, thank goodness it was over. There was another meeting...
Anti natural gas activist Vera Scroggins played the “crying wolf” gimmick last week by calling the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to complain of smells she believed to be from nearby flaring. DEP responded immediately and found…nothing. Vera Scroggins, a well-known and outspoken opponent...
We have been covering the events in Oxford (Town and Village) pretty thoroughly over the last few weeks (and here, here, here, here and here). If the Village of Oxford passes a moratorium, it will be the only municipality in Chenango County to do so...
Bloomberg News takes the low road through small-town Pennsylvania by siding with the plaintiffs in a natural gas lawsuit, making major factual errors and choosing sensation over substance at almost every turn. Like a lot of small communities, the village of Franklin Forks in northeastern...
Like a lot of small communities, the village of Franklin Forks in northeastern Pennsylvania can be pretty confusing to outsiders, especially if they’re just passing through. It can be hard enough to find your way back to the Interstate, so trying to understand the inner workings of a tight-knit community in just a few days is a pretty tall order – especially when there’s controversy involved. Not according to Bloomberg News, however, who recently traveled from Washington, D.C. to Franklin Forks to cover the controversy there over a lawsuit filed against a natural gas developer.
This past Tuesday the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) held a public hearing at Montrose High School regarding an Air Quality Plan Approval Application for a compressor station proposed by Williams. Like most of these hearings, protestors gathered outside the front doors exclaiming how bad...