Thursday 20 March 2014

Peaceful Protestors Arrested, Pennsylvania State Forest


Fractivists with Marcellus Shale EarthFirst, Pennsylvania residents and students took action to halt Anadarko’s fracking operation in the Tiadaghton State Forest. Protestors blocked the only access road to a wellpad by locking themselves to barrels of concrete, preventing workers from entering the site. The police have placed at least two people in handcuffs and one person has been cut out of the arm lock. The protesters are demanding an immediate halt to all plans for new drilling on Pennsyvlania’s public lands.

“As a lifelong resident of Pennsylvania, I feel a moral responsibility to protect my home from the malicious onslaught of an industry with a track record of environmental degradation and human rights violations,”.


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