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Ice on Rhodedendon in Black Moshannon State Park · Photo by Laura Piraino
Wood Frog · Award winning nature photography by Helena Kotala
Tytoona Cave, Blair County · Photo by Helena Kotala
Dragonfly · Photo by Helena Kotala
Creekside trees at Spring Creek Canyon · Photo by Spring Creek Canyon Alliance
Monarch butterfly on goldenrod · Photo by Helena Kotala
Outing on the West Branch of the Susquehanna · Photo by Gary Thornbloom
Rickett’s Glen · Photo by Helena Kotala
Timber rattlesnake from an On The Trail hike in the Quehanna area · Photo by Gary Thornbloom
Service outing along the Mid State Trail · Photo by Gary Thornbloom
Tree swallow · Photo by Helena Kotala
Luna moth · Award-winning photography by Helena Kotala
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Marcellus (Deep) Shale Gas Drilling
This is a list of available resources on our site — audio, video, PDF files and selected editorials and articles from various sources.
If you have any articles or links you found especially helpful, please contact the webmaster for them to be considered for this list.
Marcellus (Deep) Shale Gas Drilling 101
- Development of Natural Gas from Shales: Some Myths and Realities by Professor Anthony Ingraffea (State College, PA, May 10, 2011)
—Also available on DVD with the audience Q&A from the Moshannon Group. To receive a copy of this presentation on DVD by mail, send a check for $3 (or more, if you would like to help us distribute more of these DVDs) made out to “Sierra Club Moshannon Group.” Mail your request to Gary Thornbloom, 702 Hall Road, Julian, PA 16844.
- Earthworks People's Oil & Gas Summit excerpts (Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 2010)
- The Marcellus Shale Gas Play: Information for an Informed Citizenry — In this three-part video recorded in Vestal, NY on March 31, 2010, Professor Anthony Ingraffea speaks about the technology and impacts of deep shale drilling in the Marcellus (provided by Essential Dissent, 2010).
- Hancock & The Marcellus Shale (Columbia University Urban Design Research Seminar, 2009) — A good primer about deep shale drilling.
Articles and Editorials
- Gas Pains (Incite, 2010)
- Audubon group opposes expanded drilling (Tribune-Democrat Reader’s Forum, 2009)
- Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale and Pennsylvania’s Coldwater Resources (PA Council of Trout Unlimited, Feb 2009)
- The Halliburton Loophole (New York Times Editorial, November 2009)
- Have we learned from the past? Early problems from the Marcellus Gas Drilling (editorial by K. Davis through PaForestCoalition.org)
- The Marcellus Shale Play: What’s In Store For PA’s Natural Resources? (by Robert M. Pennell, Secretary, Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited, n.d.)
- Pennsylvania Energy Impacts Assessment Executive Summary: Marcellus Shale Natural Gas and Wind Energy (Nels Johnson, The Nature Conservancy, Pennsylvania Chapter, n.d.)
- Riding Out the Rush for Riches (PA Township News, June 2008)
- State Forests Under Attack (Dr. Stan Kotala, Wildlife Chair, Moshannon Group)
Maps
Goverment, Legislative, and Regulatory Agencies
Audio and Video Presentations
Shale Promises or Shale Spin? The Economics Behind Fracking
by Deborah Rogers
Deborah Rogers: Economics of Fracking (full talk) from Shaleshock Media on Vimeo. This is Deborah Rogers full talk, given in Binghamton, Jan 19 2012, Shale Promises, or Shale Spin? The Economics Behind Fracking
Development of Natural Gas from Shales: Some Myths and Realities by Professor Anthony Ingraffea (State College, PA, May 10, 2011)
Available on the Moshannon Group Channel on YouTube. Also available on DVD with the audience Q&A from the Moshannon Group. To receive a copy of this presentation on DVD by mail, send a check for $3 (or more, if you would like to help us distribute more of these DVDs) made out to “Sierra Club Moshannon Group”. Mail your request to Gary Thornbloom, 702 Hall Road, Julian, PA 16844.
Engelder–Ingraffea Debate (Laporte, PA, Jan 14, 2011)
Audio for Engelder–Ingraffea Debate at the Sullivan County High School courtesy of Bill Houston’s Blog. Professor Terry Engelder (Penn State) and Professor Anthony Ingraffea (Cornell) present two viewpoints on hydraulic fracturing technology used in deep shale formations.
Earthworks People’s Oil & Gas Summit (Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 2010)
Excerpts from this two-day conference that provided a comprehensive overview of what is known about the industry, its practices, hydraulic fracturing and support facilities needed to transport coal-bed methane and shale gas to market, its impacts on people, communities and the environment, and tools for an informed citizenry.
The Marcellus Shale Gas Play: Information for an Informed Citizenry
Professor Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University
In this three-part video recorded in Vestal, NY on March 31, 2010, Professor Anthony Ingraffea speaks about the technology and impacts of deep shale drilling in the Marcellus (provided by Essential Dissent, 2010).
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- The Marcellus Shale Gas Play: Information for an Informed Citizenry (part 1)
- The Marcellus Shale Gas Play: Information for an Informed Citizenry (part 2)
- The Marcellus Shale Gas Play: Information for an Informed Citizenry (part 3)
Other Grassroots Groups Working on This Issue in Moshannon Country
- Elk County Citizens Advocating Responsible Environmental Stewardship (Elk County CARES)
- Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air (Dubois/Northcentral PA)
- Responsible Drilling Alliance (Williamsport/Northcentral/Northeast PA) Grassroots, all-volunteer group of dedicated citizens who have formed an alliance and welcome members with the widest possible concerns, interests and ideologies including parents, grandparents, students, business people, hunters, fishermen, farmers, hikers, teachers, truckers, those who have leased their land to a gas company, and those who refused.
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