SUNBURY, PA — A Watsontown-based company that recently expanded into the natural gas industry is operating a waste-transfer site without state permits.
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09/28/2011
A book review of Seamus McGraw's "The End of Country", about the gas rush in the Endless Mountains. |
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05/18/2011
Video of gas well flaring in Susquehanna County, courtesy of "Frack the Movie". |
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05/03/2011
The communications director with the Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor's office tries to justify why oil and gas industry voices were first heard during a public hearing session at the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. |
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09/28/2010
A new video piece created by the Media Mobilizing Project on gas drilling in Dimock, PA. |
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04/18/2010
When the gas or mineral rights are sold from a property, it becomes a split estate. This is a trailer for a documentary by that name, Split Estate. It is about the conflict between landowners and gas companies in US natural gas drilling. |
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