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Had a lovely time today presenting to Mount Aloysius chemistry students about shale drilling.  I am posting these notes in hopes that they can be useful to others talking about and thinking about this issue.Many of these points are documented … Continue reading →

Here’s the thing – the gas companies PR machine constantly sells the idea that new, abundant sources of natural gas from hydraulic fracturing of tight shale formation (like the Marcellus) is driving prices down, thus is a boon to consumers.  … Continue reading →

May 10, 2012 Paradise Gardens and Farm 2771 Paradise Road, Reynoldsville, PA 15851 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (lunch and solidarity afterwards) Contact: Stephen Cleghorn jstephencleghorn@yahoo.com “A Farm Inviolate of Gas Drilling” On May 12, 2012 my wife Lucinda’s remains … Continue reading →

[By way of getting this blog started, I thought I ought to post links to the various kinds of activism  - writing of articles, giving speeches, producing PowerPoint presentations - in resistance to fracking that have taken up so much … Continue reading →

[Note: thanks to ShaleShock Media, this speech was recorded and is available online as a video at: http://vimeo.com/26566364  Some portions of it appeared in an article published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/10283/1093640-109.stm  And this personal note: on the very day … Continue reading →

On February 22 in Brockway, Pennsylvania, at a public hearing that was being held about permitting a new Marcellus Shale gas well to be drilled by Flatirons Development in the Brockway watershed, I asked a question that elicited from my … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, February 22 in the Borough of Brockway, Pennsylvania – the home town of Pennsylvania State Senator Joseph Scarnati, leader of the Senate Republican majority in Harrisburg – there was a public meeting on the question of whether the … Continue reading →

Hello to all who enter here – My name is Stephen Cleghorn. I am an organic farmer operating a 50-acre certified organic farm in Jefferson County, PA. If you’d like to know more about me, visit the farm’s website at … Continue reading →