http://www.jaysweeney.org Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:37:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Natural gas is claimed to be a clean energy source that could be helpful in addressing global warming.  However, methane, the principal component of natural gas is a far more dangerous green house gas than carbon.  The extraction of natural gas will only speed up global warming. Natural gas has been ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=105 How can DEP Secretary John Hanger defend the Commonwealth's environmental regulations?  They've been an abysmal failure.  In two years time, we've had private water sources contaminated, spills of diesel fuel and fracking fluid on land and in water, fish kills, blowouts, explosions and deaths as a result of the oil ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=102 Thursday April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.  On that day in 1970, millions gathered across the nation to celebrate, educate and protest.  I was in high school in Philadelphia  at the time and recall a gathering in Fairmount Park with music and speakers that was broadcast over ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=98 The Green Party of Pennsylvania held it's Nominating Convention in Pittsburgh over the weekend of February 20-21. The meeting was very interesting. I met several people new to the party including several who will run for office. We had a couple of observers who were moved to ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=92   In 2008, I was running for State Representative in the 111th District.  I attended a League of Women Voters meeting.  Everyone was asking “Did you sign a lease yet?”   It was then that I learned of the Marcellus Shale. The Marcellus Shale is a sedimentary black shale.  It is ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=87 DEP has issued thousands of drilling permits before it even thought about treating the wastewater that hydrofracking generates. DEP has ignored it’s responsibilities and Secretary John Hanger sped up the permitting process at the request of the oil & gas industry instead of seeing that safeguards were in place ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=85   The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania decided to study and discuss all facets of the Marcellus Shale issue and reach consensus on the role of state and local governments on this volatile issue. The League believes it is essential to look at all sides of an issue before reaching ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=82   December Editor,    I would like to respond to an Associated Press article published in the Times Tribune on 12/21.  The article touts he benefits of natural gas without pointing out any of it's detriments.  While it's true that natural gas burns cleaner than coal, extracting it from the Marcellus Shale is the equivalent to ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=40 I would like to publicly thank all of those who contributed in any way to my campaign for Representative in the General Assembly in the 111th district. I would like to especially thank the Susquehanna Green Party, the Wayne County Green Party and the Green Party of Pennsylvania. I would ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=33 The Berwick Chamber of Commerce and PPL officials claim that reaction to a new nuclear reactor are positive. This is nothing but a preemptive strike against opposition. Nuclear power does not release carbon into the atmosphere, but, the spent nuclear fuel rods pose an equally threatening environmental problem. ... http://www.jaysweeney.org/?p=30