VOICES includes some first-hand accounts of living with gas drilling. No number of studies can convey what drilling may bring to our community as effectively as personal experience from places where it is already happening.
Chloe Kelly - Ponderings from Pandora's Box - A Journal of Living with Unconventional Gas Drilling. Chloe Kelly lives on 4+ acres of unleased land in Sullivan County, PA where the shale gas rush is just getting underway. Because she works in Bradford County, her experience also includes what's happening there. Chloe will be submitting new entries periodically.
David Bohlander - July 2011 Comments on Impacts of Gas Drilling in Southeastern Bradford County, PA. David Bohlander is an accountant and business consultant in Bradford County. He owns a 190 acre farm in Asylum Township which has been in his family for 150 years. David's comments are responses to questions from a Tompkins County acquaintance of his.
Barbara and Charlie Gerlach - Frackturing Sustainability. Barbara and Charlie Gerlach own and operate Berryfields Farm in New Albany, Bradford County, PA. They grow organic produce, raise animals on pasture and offer farm stays in their guest house. The guiding principle of the farm has always been sustainability in all things, but the Gerlachs see encroaching gas drilling threatening both their vision for the farm and its viability.
Libby Foust - PA Should Serve as a Warning on Drilling. Libby Foust recently moved from Bradford Co, PA to the Town of Hector, NY. She made this presentation to a meeting of the Schuyler County Legislature on August 12, 2011.
to ban
High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing
in Newfield