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Fracking Pipeline Stirs Controversy in Bluegrass State
Posted by EcoWatch: Natasha Khan on December 22nd, 2013
EcoWatch: The land agent first came knocking on Vivian and Dean House’s door in July. They sat on the patio of the retired couple’s 85-acre farm in this Central Kentucky town and chatted.
The guy was friendly, the kind of guy Dean could talk to about fishing.
He put the couple at ease and told them his company was interested in running a pipeline through their land. They were later offered more than $165,000 to sign easements.
This map shows the proposed route through Pennsylvania, West Virginia,...
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Whistleblower Bill Would Criminalize Exposing Wrongdoing at Factory Farms and Fracking Sites in PA
Posted by EcoWatch: Natasha Khan on March 22nd, 2013
EcoWatch: Chickens crammed into wire cages next to the rotting carcasses of other chickens. The floor of a barn coated with flies. Hens with their heads jammed between cages and feeding machines.
The Humane Society conducted an undercover investigation in 2012 at Kreider Farms in Manheim, Pa. Kreider cages about seven million egg-laying hens at its four Pennsylvania facilities. Photo by The Humane Society of the U.S.
The Humane Society of the U.S. released a video last year depicting those conditions...