NEPA is NOT Texas

Response to comments on Corbett's blog:

There will be a lot more debt if Huntsville Dam is contaminated.  Residents of Dimock can't give their land away and this is a direct quote from a Susquehanna land owner about her property (testimony at a recent almost unpublicized PUC meeting). Another resident speaking at that hearing compared his region to a old west ghost town.  It can happen in Kingston or Pittson as well.

The aquifers that transport our water cross state lines.  Don't be fooled.  Wells sunk 5 miles away or 50 will effect us in the event of an explosion and ultimately even without one!  It is all the same water. There are many more Frack Gas well accidents than made public and millions of gallons of contaminated Frack water leeches into our drinking water even when corporations do business as usual.  These chemicals are carcinogenic and just plain poison.  Long-term health problems and birth defects result. Our lives are their cost of doing business.  Law suits even when successful will put a small dent in their profits - and don't think you will win against corporate attorney's.

If you don't have the time or inclination to do your homework before forming an opinion, please seek out someone who has.  A lot of good info in the public interest is given out on WILK and there is a wealth of info available at local GDAC meetings in Dallas.

Public meeting times will be posted in the Citizen's voice in the near future and will hopefully be broadcast here.  Ask yourself, who is motivated and what are they motivated by?  Encana and the other out of state corporations are motivated by money. PA residents who have profited from land leases are motivated by money.  Concerned citizen's are motivated by love for our state!  I live in Kingston and I am concerned for my family.

Maybe TX is better off because it is the Frack Gas Corporations base of operations (and home to most of stockholders) but there are towns without water there as well.  These guys will pull up stakes and leave once they get what they want and - long or short term - cost to the state of PA will be substantial.

I'll check back and post more info on GDAC.  Their only agenda is the safety of our water supply!  As an aside - in Dimock Cabot employees flew a Texas flag from THEIR gas rig.