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Shale Justice Coalition - Volume 2 Issue 2 - April-May 2014
Shale Justice Coaltion
Shale Justice Sponsors Democracy
School at Susquehanna University
Elected Representatives and Community
Leaders were NO SHOWS.
On February 21st -22nd, the Shale Justice Coalition
hosted an incarnation of the Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund's Democracy
School. An event costing as little as $20.00 per
person for both days to cover printing and lunch,
Democracy School is an optimum opportunity to
learn about the history of the relationship between
communities and corporate interests both in the
Commonwealth, and across the United States.
Elected Representives and Community Leaders
were invited but declined to attend. Click here to
continue.
Member Issues
DRILLING WASTE WATER
Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition of Luzerne County
(GDAC) joined with the residents of Lake Township to
stop a proposed Drilling Waste Water plant. A
Berwick-based company applied to Luzerne County to
build a facility for treating natural gas drilling waste water
in Lake Township, and has requested a variance from
the Luzerne County Zoning Board.
We all need to take a moment and decide what is really
important in our lives. Are we going to allow our
children's and grandchildren's water supplies and
environment to be damaged?
Upcoming Events
April 5, 2014 Follow
the Water. 3rd Annual
Rivertown Workkshop
May 6, 2014 United
Shale Advocates Rally
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Legislative Alert
SB 1047:
Endangered Species
Coordination Act. An
Act providing a
process for the
designation of certain
species.
SB 738:
An Act providing for
distribution system
extension and
expansion plans to
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Are we going to let others control their futures?
Is it time we took on this task ourselves?
Yes, it is time to take action!
Luzerne County is about to be hit AGAIN by the
negative effects of the natural gas industry.
An application for a permit for a Frack Water Treatment
Plant has been submitted to the County for Meeker
Outlet Road (the old Harveys Lake Gun Club property),
in Lake Township. As a result, three or important and
irreplaceable water sources will be at risk.
Drilling Waste Water is known to contain toxic,
carcinogenic chemicals, and the application specifies
that there will be 30 or more 20,000 gallon storage tanks
installed at the site, as well as radioactive contaminant
testing areas. In addition, anticipate a future with
non-stop frack water trucks traveling 24/7, back and
forth over our back roads.
Luzerne County Zoning Board will be holding a hearing
for Waveco's variance request on Tuesday, March 4th,
Luzerne County Courthouse, 2nd Floor Meeting Room,
200 North River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711. BE
THERE EARLY 6:00pm.
Berks Gas Truth Heads up Moratorium NOW!
Berks Gas Truth is inviting organizations and individuals
across the state and region to join in the Moratorium
NOW campaign. You can make a difference in the 2014
elections, but only if we coordinate our efforts. In the
coming weeks, Moratorium Now be conducting
bird-dogging trainings, creating a web portal where they
will share bird-dogging opportunities, elicit statements
from candidates, video footage, and more. Moratorium
Now be coordinating house parties to raise funds to pay
for point people to head up bird-dogging efforts on both
sides of the state. And that's just the beginning!
Download Moratorium Now's new brochure "When
Candidates Say..."
Gas Free Seneca
Crestwood's Plan: Two Projects - One company and
its subsidiaries.
In 2013 Inergy LP merged with Crestwood Midstream of
Houston, Texas. Crestwood still proposes to
re-purpose 50 and 60 year old abandoned salt caverns
for liquefied propane and butane storage, as well as
expansion of existing natural gas storage by Crestwood
subsidiary Arlington Gas Storage. These unlined salt
caverns were never engineered or designed for this
purpose. The geology is highly questionable.
Arlington Gas Storage, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Inergy, now Crestwood, applied to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) in January, 2013 for a
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to
expand the natural gas storage that they purchased
from New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) from
1.5 billion cubic feet (BCF) to 2.0 BCF. Crestwood also
states on their website and in filings with the Securities
increase natural gas
usage in this
Commonwealth.
SB 739:
An Act amending the
act of July 9, 2008 (1st
Sp.Sess., P.L.1873,
No.1), known as the
Alternative Energy
Investment Act, further
providing for pollution
control technology
projects and for
Commonwealth
Financing Authority.
Click Here for More
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and Exchange Commission that they have plans to
expand even further, to 10.0 BCF. FERC could make a
decision on this application at any time.
Click here to continue.
Actions
PROTESTORS TURN OUT FOR STOP COVE POINT
RALLY
Last December, Cabot Oil & Gas issued a press release
boasting its natural gas production rates in the Marcellus
Shale. For anyone who doesn't know, Cabot is the
company barred from fracking in Dimock, PA after
contaminating the water supplies of several families
there. Their "bad actor" behavior hasn't been confined to
Dimock. Cabot is one of the leading recidivists with 463
wells in Pennsylvania and 449 permit violations.
Cabot issued the release to announce its deal to supply
the Japanese market with 350,000 MMBtus of natural
gas per day for 20 years. The deal goes only goes into
effect if the proposed Cove Point LNG facility in
Maryland where the gas would be liquefied for export
goes into operation. And where would all of that gas
come from? "This long-term firm sales agreement is
another milestone for Cabot's marketing efforts and
ensures the continuing development of our Marcellus
Shale position in Northeast Pennsylvania for years to
come," according to the release.
Over 800 protesters turned out for the Stop Cove Point
rally on February 20th in Baltimore plan to say no to the
proposed $3.8 billion export project. If approved, it would
be the first LNG export facility on the eastern seaboard.
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) and
its partners organized the rally to put pressure on the
state's Public Service Commission in advance of its
March 1st public hearing where they'll consider issuing a
certificate of public convenience and necessity and to
call on Senators Mikulski and Cardin to demand that the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
conduct a comprehensive Environmental Impact
Statement before considering approving the project. It
should be astonishing that that FERC has indicated it
has no plans to conduct an EIS, but anyone familiar with
the commission knows it frequently rubber-stamps
projects without thorough environmental reviews.
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