Gas Wells Are Not Our Friends | Endless Mountains Visitors Guide: New Attraction in PA – Visit a Well Pad

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Gas Wells are not our Friends

Peacegirl: In 1930, my greatgrandparents purchased a beautiful farm in Bradford County, PA, in a little hamlet called French Azilum. In the summer, we spent time there, resting, breathing in the fresh air, enjoying the wild flowers, the bright stars and planets on a clear moonlit night, and swimming in the Susquehanna River. If gas drilling is allowed to continue, Bradford County and all of Pennsylvania will be forever changed, ruined beyond repair.

Read and weep. Here is part of the new brochure: Endless Mountains Visitors Guide. Imagine trying to make a gas well a wonderful and fascinating thing to visit in Pennsylvania. It is almost like trying to make visiting a ward in a VA hospital something to look forward to. Come see the death and destruction here in Pennsylvania. It will be fascinating. Watch the gas drillers as they work diligently to ruin everything we treasure here in Pennsylvania. Read on………(from the Endless Mountains Visitors Guide)

History in the Making: Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling

The Endless Mountains Region has embarked on a new and fascinating journey with the introduction of natural gas drilling in the area. Natural gas companies have made residency here as they work diligently to extract the natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation–a black shale that is thousands of feet underground. The Marcellus Shale lies beneath much of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio,West Virginia, and adjacent states. As you travel through the Endless Mountains, you may see a well rig towering into the sky, or a large leveled area of ground with equipment all around.These are all part of the drilling landing pad and gas extraction process. We invite you to learn about and discover this part of history that is unfolding in the Endless Mountains.

To learn more, contact the visitors bureau at 1-800-769-8999, or visit http://www.pamarcellus.com/. (This website is clearly pro-drilling in every way.) It was rebranded in 2012, according to archive.org as The Marcellus Coalition

The Marcellus Shale Committee is a gas industry front. (This website too, is clearly pro-drilling in every way.)

Check out the Sourcewatch article: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marcellus_Shale_Committee

The Marcellus Shale Committee is not a committee of citizens concerned about the negative consequences of massively expanded efforts to drill for natural gas across the northeastern U.S.; it is an industry front group for oil and gas industry companies created in 2008. The Marcellus Shale Committee asserts that its goal is to promote “the responsible development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale geological formation in Pennsylvania and the enhancement of the Commonwealth’s economy that can be realized by this clean-burning energy source.”

I am going to call the number above and ask where would be a good place to see a gas well.

Here is the website where you, too, can download this visitors guide:

https://www.endlessmountains.org/