Supporting Local Agriculture, Protesting Dangerous Drilling
BESSEMER, PA More than thirty people gathered in front of an
unconventional gas well operated by Shell Oil, to protest the impacts
drilling may have on farming, water, and air quality. ?The well pad is
within 4,000 feet of Maggie Henry?s farm.? Henry raises organic eggs,
poultry and pork, and she fears that unconventional gas drilling will
contaminate her well water and force her out of business.? The gas well
and the Henry farm lie in an area littered with hundreds of abandoned
and unplugged oil wells, which could create a pathway through which gas
and fluids from the fracking process can migrate into aquifers. Read More:http://roddickluanne8.typepad.com/blog/2012/11/supporting-local-agriculture-protesting-dangerous-drilling.html#
