“Traveller spent a month in May 2012 visiting 12 different places in PA that all had unique stories and situations, but had one thing in common: gas development has changed their lives, and not for the better.”
Over the last month I have seen more of the transformed landscape that was once Pennsylvania and is now turned gas fields than I can even understand, or fully explain. I will only attempt a synopsis of the journey. I visited 12 different places that all had unique stories and situations, but had one thing in common: gas development has changed their lives, and not for the better.
I first went to Butler County, then Washington County, Fayette County and all over the Moshannon Forest. My mission was to see, first hand, what living in the gas fields is like for some people and to assist some of these families with independent air testing. I had already met at least 4 families that have lost their water, in Butler alone. I know that there are at least 12. Their situation is still dire, still haphazard. Although, many kind citizens have…
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