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Don’t Expect Protection:  Remarks of Stephen Cleghorn on Earth Day, April 22, 2013 outside the DEP regional office in Meadville, PA THE LEGACY OF RACHEL CARSON Allow me to speak first on this Earth Day of the legacy of Rachel … Continue reading →

Stephen Cleghorn presentation at Red Bank, New Jersey on the occasion of a book signing and public forum to discuss the new book Foodopoly by Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch.  April 4, 2013 Good evening. I … Continue reading →

So here is how the Control Risks consulting group sizes up our movement to end fracking. http://www.controlrisks.com/Oversized%20assets/shale_gas_whitepaper.pdf For me this document reads like a huge compliment to all of us who are resisting fracking. It is clear that this consultant at … Continue reading →

“THE DR. LUCINDA HART-GONZÁLEZ CONSERVATION EASEMENT” What and Where: A first-in-the-nation Conservation Easement by a private landowner to declare and protect the Rights of Nature, ecosystems and natural communities present on his 50-acre organic farm at 2771 Paradise Road, Reynoldsville, … Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pennsylvania Landowner Recognizes Rights of Nature through a First-in-the-Country Deed Easement: Bans Fracking for Shale Gas Urges Other Landowners Across the Country to Follow His Lead Contact: J. Stephen Cleghorn, PhD (814) 568-1207 http://paradisegardensandfarm.com/ [A press conference … Continue reading →

Peoples Hearing on Fracking Buffalo State College Buffalo, New York June 2, 2012 Address given by Stephen Cleghorn Nature’s Justice Good morning. I have some remarks regarding Nature’s Justice. My name is Stephen Cleghorn. I live and farm in a … Continue reading →

The Harmed, the Sickened, the Dead and the Disappeared: Accounts of the impacts of shale gas drilling on people and animals List compiled by J. Lisak of Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air (PACWA) pacwa@ymail.com INTRODUCTION by Stephen Cleghorn … Continue reading →

“A Farm Inviolate” – May 10, 2012: Statement by J. Stephen Cleghorn, PhD The statement Goats bearing witness to the blessing Blessing the land with Lucinda’s ashes (Note: this is the complete statement I had prepared. Because of a sudden, … Continue reading →

In the April 24 edition of the Butler Eagle, State Senator Mary Jo White (R) argues that Act 13, the new legislation governing oil and gas development, is a “good law.” http://www.butlereagle.com/article/20120424/EDITORIAL02/704249853/-1/Editorial  If Act 13 is such a good law … Continue reading →