[Repeal The 17th]

The answer to your question is right there in the article...
Just your typical NIMBY scenario...
- - -
“We are working very hard to prevent the dire effects of gas well drilling in our township and in the Upper Delaware River Basin, including Wayne County, PA and Sullivan County, NY. Overwhelming evidence now exists that the type of gas drilling proposed for our area causes contaminated drinking water, carcinogens in the farmland and food chain, torn-up roads, risk of explosions, toxic air pollution, plummeting real estate values, and screeching noise polution.”

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Drilling methods of today fully isolate the well bore from all chances of cross contamination in the gorund water systems. The roads are rebuilt much better to handle the loads, paid for by the oil company and left better than they found them.

Carcinogens in the farm land and food chain? That’s actually the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard. That’s impossible! Risks of explosion? About as much chance of them losing their homes to an earthquake.....none. Toxic air pollution? It’s all contained and sealed in a tight pipe line.

Plummeting real estate values? The well head left behind will be about the size of a large barbecue grill. And the lucky people to have mineral rights to the land will retire early on the royalties. There will be a stampede to buy land there for that reason alone. Real estate values will go off the chart.

These people are disgusting and beyond stupid.

[perez24]

“Plummeting real estate values” is the key word in all of this.

[samtheman]

I didn’t read the article. Thanks.

I don’t think I will. Too depressing.

[cake_crumb]

Overwhelming evidence now exists that the type of gas drilling proposed for our area causes contaminated drinking water, carcinogens in the farmland and food chain, torn-up roads, risk of explosions, toxic air pollution, plummeting real estate values, and screeching noise polution."

Complete and utter BS. The new drilling technology that's been in use several years included sounding, then drilling and sounding, drilling samples (the labs are right there on the job) ect., so they know exactly the angle and almost exactly the depth to drill. If your water is contaminated THEY have to PAY all of it.

If a 5 gallon can of diesel fuel is spilled on the job, they have to immediately begin HAZMAT procedure to contain the spil and clean it up. I know, Hubby's worked on the rigs in the past few years and was th eone that got stuck doing cleaning up because of his HAZMAT certifications.

Drilling companies are VERY green these days.

[Dustbunny]

Do you live down the road from me?

[sportutegrl]

I have a piece of land an oil company is paying me to extract natural gas from. I get a pretty sweet check from it, too. There are people I know who have farms on some of the land, built houses some of the land, (I own only a small parcel of the producing field), so they are literally saying Yes, In My Back Yard, the opposite of NIMBY. Of course, they get a check, but the people who don't live on the producing gas field could still benefit economically by cheaper, cleaner electricity.

I don't know about contaminated drinking water or carcinogens in the farmland, but there were no roads or only gravel roads in this area before the gas well, now they are paved. The site dates back to the 1970's and there has never been an explosion. The real estate prices have actually gone up since people want to live on land with valuable mineral rights, and I have never been able to hear any noise, but I have never gotten close to the well.

Have the protesters ever visited a gas well and/or looked at before/after scenarios, I wonder.

[fella]

plummeting real estate values

Hrer in the Barnett Shale evry peice of property is priced as if it has a free flowing gas well on it. Wait a minute they do!