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 join the party.
Saturday was a [...]
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 located beneath most of Pennsylvania [...]
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 to protect the environment , [...]
