Pennsylvania… Forced Exodus From Shale Drilling Areas… (A Wasteland In The Making… A Land Grab By Design!… Agenda 21!)

 

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Some of the most vital, communicative Pennsylvanians I personally
know, from as far west as Butler County and as far northeast as
Susquehanna County, are being pushed into an exodus, attempting to move
away from beloved homes that have become unbearable due to gas drilling. ~ Iris Marie Bloom ~ Related articles

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Others are being pushed out against their will and face homelessness
due to corporations only too eager to get a piece of the action, like
water privatization giant Aqua America and its subsidiary partners such
as Aqua PVR.

This week alone, three shale country residents from three different counties spoke out about their displacement.

Surrounded in Susquehanna

On May 7th, Rebecca Roter of formerly tranquil Susquehanna County reported her own microcosm of this tragedy:

I am going to look to move… I have a rig 3000 feet from
my [water] well going up right now. Another pad fracking about one mile
north of me…there are 24 permitted wells within about one mile of my
house.

I also have the Williams compressor station being built about one
mile up my dirt road. It sits above me and that is a real concern for
me: all the air emissions that will roll down my valley.

That’s without even mentioning the flaring, the multiple spills,
accidents and contamination incidents nearby. Rebecca has been a vital
force for documenting, reporting and taking action on behalf of her
neighborhood, county and state.

For example, she’s assisted a
significant network of people in stepping up to testify at compressor
station hearings to attempt to prevent severe and sickening air
pollution from gas drilling.

When the very people who are most dedicated and courageous are forced
out, the loss has a potentially devastating ripple effect. If the
“whistleblowers” leave, who speaks up for the quieter folks left behind?

Residents Forced Out so the River can be Sold Out of Riverdale

In central Pennsylvania, those remaining Riverdale residents not
already forced to leave face imminent displacement on  June 1st.

About
15 families living in Riverdale Mobile Home Village near Jersey Shore,
Pennsylvania, right by the Susquehanna River, have been told by Aqua
America that they must leave, but they have nowhere to go.

Residents
there have a few things to say about being forced into exodus to make
way for a mega-water-withdrawal facility Aqua is building to sell
Susquehanna River water to frackers.

The Aqua withdrawals appear to be
escalating fracking in the Susquehanna River Basin for years to come and
certainly guarantee the permanent poisoning of at least 4 billion
gallons of Susquehanna River freshwater, and likely much more than that.

Aqua’s water withdrawal permit may be renewed by the Susquehanna River
Basin Commission indefinitely, and starts at 3 million gallons/day.

Diane Smith, Riverdale resident for 14 years: “This is my home. These are not just structures. They are homes.”

Riverdale resident Kevin June: “You can’t just destroy people’s lives like this.”

Riverdale resident Deb Eck: “They don’t understand. There is no place
else for us to go. They’ve already started coming in and staking the
ground [for construction] across my driveway.

It’s not just about
us, but the environmental impact. There’s wildlife; it’s a beautiful
setting, it’s peaceful. That water was not put there to be sold, to be
polluted or to be poisoned.”

Butler Blues: Kim McEvoy Speaks Out

In Butler County (western PA), the fracking blues are also
intensifying. On Friday, April 27th, residents told me that pictures had
fallen off the walls of some homes during fracking operations there.

“Five explosions on Friday rattled my windows,” Kim McEvoy told me on
May 3rd.

Kim’s family and a dozen other families nearby are receiving
assistance from Protecting Our Waters’ tiny but vital “Water LOVE”
Emergency Fund, but the promised large donation of 2,000 gallons from
Wal-Mart (promised to them long ago by PA State Rep Brian Ellis) has not
come through yet, so none of the families have water security day to
day.

Church donations and activists’ assistance is not enough. Kim’s
family has been living with contaminated water since January 2011, but
that’s not the only problem.

Kim spoke out on May 3rd:

1. Explosions from fracking: “It’s scary. Other residents
have been calling Janet McIntyre to describe pictures falling off their
walls. There’s no warning, you’ll just be trying to have a conversation
and an explosion goes off. It’s almost like there’s no consideration. I
don’t make any kind of complaints any more, I feel like I’m wasting my
breath.”

2. Foul air: “It’s terrible. It’s not every day; it
depends which way the wind blows. You don’t even want to [let your
children] go out to play. I live in the country, but it’s like the worst
city air, it’s living next to an industrial site. I didn’t ask for it
but their attitude is, you have to live with it. It makes my mouth dry,
throat dry, and my nose burns.”

3. No safe water: “I don’t even have enough to flush the toilet. I
have to take a shower at my neighbor’s but then [my three year old
daughter] Skylar’s and my skin breaks out, because there’s chloramine in
that water. We haul water every day in one-gallon jugs from my work and
my hustband’s work. We haul water.”

4. Kim McEvoy speaks out: “The earth is a living thing. I don’t think
people understand what they’re doing: Our water table has all but
disappeared after the drillers moved in. I think the technology is
completely flawed. Ten years from now people will be scratching their
heads saying, ‘we shouldn’t have done that.’”

Kim has a “For Sale” sign up, but no one’s come to look at the property. Susan Phillips also reported Kim’s experience here, on StateImpact, in more detail.

 

Iris Marie Bloom – May 12, 2012 – ProtectingOurWaters

 

See…

Pennsylvania – Act 13… The Nation’s Worst Corporate Giveaway!… Govenor Tom Corbett Turns on the People in Favor of Fracking!

Watch GASLAND

The Natural Gas Fracking Bubble Scam (Fracking Ponzi Scheme?)

 

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Pennsylvania… Forced Exodus From Shale Drilling Areas… (A Wasteland In The Making… A Land Grab By Design!… Agenda 21!)

 

fracking-slurry-pond

Some of the most vital, communicative Pennsylvanians I personally
know, from as far west as Butler County and as far northeast as
Susquehanna County, are being pushed into an exodus, attempting to move
away from beloved homes that have become unbearable due to gas drilling. ~ Iris Marie Bloom ~ Related articles

Enlarged Photo

Others are being pushed out against their will and face homelessness
due to corporations only too eager to get a piece of the action, like
water privatization giant Aqua America and its subsidiary partners such
as Aqua PVR.

This week alone, three shale country residents from three different counties spoke out about their displacement.

Surrounded in Susquehanna

On May 7th, Rebecca Roter of formerly tranquil Susquehanna County reported her own microcosm of this tragedy:

I am going to look to move… I have a rig 3000 feet from
my [water] well going up right now. Another pad fracking about one mile
north of me…there are 24 permitted wells within about one mile of my
house.

I also have the Williams compressor station being built about one
mile up my dirt road. It sits above me and that is a real concern for
me: all the air emissions that will roll down my valley.

That’s without even mentioning the flaring, the multiple spills,
accidents and contamination incidents nearby. Rebecca has been a vital
force for documenting, reporting and taking action on behalf of her
neighborhood, county and state.

For example, she’s assisted a
significant network of people in stepping up to testify at compressor
station hearings to attempt to prevent severe and sickening air
pollution from gas drilling.

When the very people who are most dedicated and courageous are forced
out, the loss has a potentially devastating ripple effect. If the
“whistleblowers” leave, who speaks up for the quieter folks left behind?

Residents Forced Out so the River can be Sold Out of Riverdale

In central Pennsylvania, those remaining Riverdale residents not
already forced to leave face imminent displacement on  June 1st.

About
15 families living in Riverdale Mobile Home Village near Jersey Shore,
Pennsylvania, right by the Susquehanna River, have been told by Aqua
America that they must leave, but they have nowhere to go.

Residents
there have a few things to say about being forced into exodus to make
way for a mega-water-withdrawal facility Aqua is building to sell
Susquehanna River water to frackers.

The Aqua withdrawals appear to be
escalating fracking in the Susquehanna River Basin for years to come and
certainly guarantee the permanent poisoning of at least 4 billion
gallons of Susquehanna River freshwater, and likely much more than that.

Aqua’s water withdrawal permit may be renewed by the Susquehanna River
Basin Commission indefinitely, and starts at 3 million gallons/day.

Diane Smith, Riverdale resident for 14 years: “This is my home. These are not just structures. They are homes.”

Riverdale resident Kevin June: “You can’t just destroy people’s lives like this.”

Riverdale resident Deb Eck: “They don’t understand. There is no place
else for us to go. They’ve already started coming in and staking the
ground [for construction] across my driveway.

It’s not just about
us, but the environmental impact. There’s wildlife; it’s a beautiful
setting, it’s peaceful. That water was not put there to be sold, to be
polluted or to be poisoned.”

Butler Blues: Kim McEvoy Speaks Out

In Butler County (western PA), the fracking blues are also
intensifying. On Friday, April 27th, residents told me that pictures had
fallen off the walls of some homes during fracking operations there.

“Five explosions on Friday rattled my windows,” Kim McEvoy told me on
May 3rd.

Kim’s family and a dozen other families nearby are receiving
assistance from Protecting Our Waters’ tiny but vital “Water LOVE”
Emergency Fund, but the promised large donation of 2,000 gallons from
Wal-Mart (promised to them long ago by PA State Rep Brian Ellis) has not
come through yet, so none of the families have water security day to
day.

Church donations and activists’ assistance is not enough. Kim’s
family has been living with contaminated water since January 2011, but
that’s not the only problem.

Kim spoke out on May 3rd:

1. Explosions from fracking: “It’s scary. Other residents
have been calling Janet McIntyre to describe pictures falling off their
walls. There’s no warning, you’ll just be trying to have a conversation
and an explosion goes off. It’s almost like there’s no consideration. I
don’t make any kind of complaints any more, I feel like I’m wasting my
breath.”

2. Foul air: “It’s terrible. It’s not every day; it
depends which way the wind blows. You don’t even want to [let your
children] go out to play. I live in the country, but it’s like the worst
city air, it’s living next to an industrial site. I didn’t ask for it
but their attitude is, you have to live with it. It makes my mouth dry,
throat dry, and my nose burns.”

3. No safe water: “I don’t even have enough to flush the toilet. I
have to take a shower at my neighbor’s but then [my three year old
daughter] Skylar’s and my skin breaks out, because there’s chloramine in
that water. We haul water every day in one-gallon jugs from my work and
my hustband’s work. We haul water.”

4. Kim McEvoy speaks out: “The earth is a living thing. I don’t think
people understand what they’re doing: Our water table has all but
disappeared after the drillers moved in. I think the technology is
completely flawed. Ten years from now people will be scratching their
heads saying, ‘we shouldn’t have done that.’”

Kim has a “For Sale” sign up, but no one’s come to look at the property. Susan Phillips also reported Kim’s experience here, on StateImpact, in more detail.

 

Iris Marie Bloom – May 12, 2012 – ProtectingOurWaters

 

See…

Pennsylvania – Act 13… The Nation’s Worst Corporate Giveaway!… Govenor Tom Corbett Turns on the People in Favor of Fracking!

Watch GASLAND

The Natural Gas Fracking Bubble Scam (Fracking Ponzi Scheme?)

 

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