While democratic gubernatorial front-runner Allyson Schwartz has had a fairly centrist environmental voting record (despite her support for the Keystone XL Pipeline), the representative has stuck to all the safe talking points when it comes natural gas drilling in the Commonwealth.…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is a special Earth Day edition of my weekly social issues column, Wanderings. The information is from my latest book, Fracking Pennsylvania, an overall look at the nature and consequences of high-pressure horizontal hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. Even…
Beaver Run reservoir is the source of drinking water for 150,000 people. CNX/Consol has as many as twelve fracked well pads on the hills the surround Beaver Run. Reported in 2011 by Truthout: “But the gas operations were hardly…
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to conduct my first interview for the Raging Chicken Press. Our first guest was Philip Aroneanu, a co-founder and the camping director for 350.Org. The interview was conducted moments after the Senate voted on the Hoeven Amendment,…
Editor’s note: The amazing Wendy Lee. Wendy has been with Raging Chicken Press right from the start. Any reader of “the Chicken” knows of Wendy’s fearless and unyielding work to stop the fracking industry. I can think of no one…
Editor’s Note: The following video is from Jay Wilcox of Urban Disaster Records. In his latest video, Jay Wilcox features Samantha Brown an 18 year old resident of Beaver County. In the video, Samantha talks about how fracking is affecting the younger…
Editors note: This is our latest installment of Jay Wilcox’s “From the Frontlines” video series. Jay has been travelling all around the Shale Country to expose how fracking destroys communities. In the latest episode, he follows around Vera Scroggins and Craig…
Yesterday, Keegan Gibson at Politics PA reported that former Pennsylvania Congressman Mark Critz received a new job working for EIS Solutions – a “grassroots” organization (in their terms). That very same “grassroots organization” that Mark Critz will be working for as a…
When will the revolving door in politics stop spinning? No one may never know, but in the mean time, former Congressman Mark Critz just became the latest corporate democrat to sell out and become a lobbyist. Mr. Critz has found…
Editors note: We are glad to present another video from Jay Wilcox’s “From the Front Lines” Series. This video looks at the natural gas lobbyists inside the Cuomo administration. Need we say more? For more of Jay’s video’s please click…
