Gas drilling can spark neighbor disputes!(south western Pa.)

[Bravo Zulu]

Explosions on the hill! Stupid legislators! In the industry's pocket! Open gasoline containers! Bunks filled with out-of-state workers! Shady subcontractors! Loud generators! Disclose the fracking fluids! Dead fish everywhere! And the drillers just buried them! It's a Towering Inferno! It's Godzilla! Better yet -- it's Gaszilla!

This tour already has been shared with two busloads of Pittsburgh activists; state Rep. Jesse White, who is a Cecil Democrat; and Mr. Parker's wife, Minna. Along the route, Mr. Parker's pointed finger serves as a look-over-there guide.

It has been about two years since he saw the first signs of a gas drilling boom in the Marcellus Shale formation beneath much of Pennsylvania. Washington County is the most active area for drillers in the western part of the state, with 465 permits signed for drilling in 2009 and 2010.

Mr. Parker's seven acres in Avella are "right in the middle, like the hole in the middle of a doughnut," with neighbors all around him securing hundreds of thousands of dollars through contracts that build rigs up the road from the Parkers' house

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11149/1150044-503.stm#ixzz1Nl32ZA5K

[ellenfl]

1. when a person will turn a blind eye and sell his/her health and/or life for

a few pieces of silver . . . well, you know you've found a republican. :dunce:

my cousin lives and owns property in ne pa and stands solidly with mr. parker on this one.

ellen fl