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United States: Citizen-Scientists’ Plight to Protect Watershed from Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: SkyTruth on December 27th, 2012
EcoWatch: This past summer SkyTruth and the Downstream Project went up to Northern Pennsylvania to document Marcellus Shale gas development in and around the Pine Creek Watershed, a watershed known to Pennsylvanians as the “Grand Canyon of the East.” Our trip was facilitated by LightHawk, a volunteer conservation pilot association who took us up in a single-engine aircraft to get an aerial perspective on unconventional shale gas wells popping up across the Northern Tier. However, one of the most unique features...