This evening I attended a pipeline party at the Big Creek Grange in Franklin Township. About 90 landowners, environmentalists, and other sympathetic people showed up to eat, drink, and listen to music by Free Range Folk, an amazing group from the Jim Thorpe area.
We learned what we could do to hinder and stop the 36-inch PennEast/UGI fracking natural gas pipeline that would fragment forests, harm state gamelands, pollute watersheds, run roughshod over property owners, and wreck state parks,
Everyone in the hall was in opposition to the proposed pipeline. They were opposed because of the danger of explosions. Because of the environmental damage. Because of the lies PennEast/UGI has been telling about the necessity for the pipeline. Because of the use of eminent domain for private profit.
We learned that PennEast UGI is angry. it is scared. And, if we stick together, it will lose.
Solidarity to the Nth degree!
ReplyDeleteMarie and I enjoyed the evening. It was a fantastic gathering of concerned residents.
ReplyDeleteWhat amazed me was the variety of people that were there. Young and old, Penna. Dutch farmers and environmentalists, liberals and conservatives--all united against the pipeline. It was inspiring.
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