By Sharon Furlong | Erie Times-News, March 18, 2021

The folks at the Marcellus Shale Coalition, who wrote in on March 12, should please note the following:

The Physicians for Social Responsibility has published a compendium, now in its sixth edition, that lists over 300 independent health and academic studies, the vast majority of which clearly report public health dangers associated with fracking.

The jobs this industry said it was going to create when it was lobbying for state support — something like a quarter-million jobs — in actuality, never topped 26,000.

Land and house values have plummeted in areas where there is fracking.

In 2015, Penn Star found fracking fluids in groundwater: http://insideenergy.org/2015/05/07/fracking-chemicals-found-in-pennsylvania-groundwater/ and the EPA found it in 2016.

Air pollution near natural gas facilities was found to be probably killing people in one report in June of 2020: https://www.ehn.org/fracking-pennsylvania-deaths-2646154025.html, and includes actual explosions: https://www.pafrackinghealth.org/infrastructure-impacts/.

And finally, much of Pennsylvania’s vaunted “clean energy” gas is slated for export overseas, for plastic production.

The Marcellus Shale Coalition should ask itself who is really “creating false choices”.

>>> Sharon Furlong is spokeswoman for Bucks Environmental Action in Bucks County.

https://www.goerie.com/story/opinion/2021/03/19/lte-please-note-my-objections-shale-industrys-fracking-response/4732183001/