Riverkeeper/Others Demand PA Gov Wolf Stop All Fracking/Pipelines
THE Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, and a bunch of her anti-fossil fuel pals delivered a letter on Wednesday to America’s most liberal governor, PA Gov. Tom Wolf, asking him to immediately suspend all further Marcellus drilling in the state and while he’s at it, stop building any new pipelines. They also “demand” (their words) that Wolf shut down his Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force which he created back in May (see Disaster on the Horizon: PA Gov Wolf Creates Pipeline Task Force). The letter states, “Our homes, neighborhoods, water, air, land, precious environment and the health and safety of our families are threatened by each new shale gas well drilled and fracked, each new mile of pipeline or pipeline expansion, each new compressor station, natural gas power plant, storage facility, LNG facility, or processing facility currently being proposed and built throughout the East Coast. Drilling and fracking operations in Pennsylvania and throughout the Marcellus Shale are driving that build-out of gas infrastructure.” These people are full of Barbara Streisand up to their eyeballs. Pathological liars. Below we have a press release from the so-called 115 organizations signing the letter along with a copy of the letter itself sent to Wolf…
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