In the ongoing exchange between myself and the self-styled natural gas landman-maverick VP of Land and Public Relations, Mike Knapp—Snyder Bros/MDS Energy Services, I have sought to lay out in as thorough and objective a fashion as possible the facts…
The following is an exchange included in a rather longish thread on Energy in Depth–a fracking propaganda website who sends its “field directors” to events such as the direct action shut-down of the Schlumberger Compound in Horseheads, new York, 8.11.12.…
Energy in Depth (EID) faux-reporters Rachael Colley and Joe Massaro really only have one teeny-tiny problem with respect to their reporting at the Schlumberger Direct Action, 8.11.12: only the most trivial aspects of their report are actually true. True! There…
[The letter below is a letter to the editor responding to an Op-Ed published in the Patriot news 8.3.12 by Energy In Depth's Tom Shepstone. His original can be found here: http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2012/08/marcellus_drilling_benefits_wh.html] Dear Editor: What Pennsylvania citizens need to know…
The attached set of pictures may not be the most exciting. Guards. Trucks. Chain link fences. Razor wire. A move of a mobile home. It doesn’t document a police raid. It’s not an occupy encampment. The colors are either harsh…
“Here are two sets of photographs–juxtaposed on two very different nights. The first is the last night of the encampment before the police raid, Tuesday, June 12th. This was a magical evening, permeated by laughter, play, music, work–community–everything that we…
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In a recent Williamsport Sun-Gazette piece, Kevin June, one of the leading voices at Riverdale among the residents, is quoted as saying that “the cops were more than kind to us from day one,” and that the gas industry “supports…
It is genuinely difficult for me to capture the surreal almost slow-motion atmosphere of the police raid of Riverdale. Someone suggested to me that because there was no use of force, this wasn’t really a raid. But there was a…
