A COMMUNITY PRESENTATION

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17^TH at 7:00 PM

CHIPPEWA EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH

239 BRAUN ROAD, BEAVER FALLS, PA 15010

Carolyn Knapp and Carol French own working dairy farms in Bradford County, PA. Both have signed gas leases for their property and have experienced the impacts of heavy drilling activity in their community. They have devoted large amounts of time learning about the hydraulic fracturing process and the overall impact it has on the community. They will provide a perspective on fracking that is not being provided by the gas companies. Questions will be taken after their presentation.

Visit www.southbeaverfracking.com for more information or contact Rich Barger -  barger105@comcast.net

Chippewa Evangelical Free Church is not a sponsor and does not endorse the speakers for this event.  Chippewa Evangelical Free Church maintains neutrality on the issue of Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling.  CEFC is only providing a meeting place and is neither for nor against gas drilling.

Drilling Down: Regulation Lax as

Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers

By IAN URBINA
New York Times

Feb. 26, 2011 – The American landscape is dotted with hundreds of thousands of new wells and drilling rigs, as the country scrambles to tap into this century’s gold rush — for natural gas.

The gas has always been there, of course, trapped deep underground in countless tiny bubbles, like frozen spills of seltzer water between thin layers of shale rock. But drilling companies have only in recent years developed techniques to unlock the enormous reserves, thought to be enough to supply the country with gas for heating buildings, generating electricity and powering vehicles for up to a hundred years.

So energy companies are clamoring to drill. And they are getting rare support from their usual sparring partners. Environmentalists say using natural gas will help slow climate change because it burns more cleanly than coal and oil. Lawmakers hail the gas as a source of jobs. They also see it as a way to wean the United States from its dependency on other countries for oil.

But the relatively new drilling method — known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking — carries significant environmental risks. It involves injecting huge amounts of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, at high pressures to break up rock formations and release the gas.

With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene and radioactive elements like radium, all of which can occur naturally thousands of feet underground. Other carcinogenic materials can be added to the wastewater by the chemicals used in the hydrofracking itself.

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