First Drilling Setup at Deering Site

The Responsible Drilling Alliance is planning a series of regional membership meetings; the kick off scheduled for the southern tier this Tuesday November 13th in Montgomery, PA, which is in Lycoming County adjacent to Williamsport, PA.

The RDA Board of Directors and Working Group will bring you up to date on our activities, and more importantly, listen to your concerns and ideas. Our goal is to build connection and community, and to give you a greater voice in creating the platform on which the RDA mission and message can evolve, based on the needs and opinions of RDA members.

Please plan to come network with us and to enjoy light snacks. The Mulligan’s bar will be open during the meeting, and the full dinner menu available afterward. We expect the meeting to last about an hour.

We hope to see you Tuesday night at Mulligan’s Restaurant on the White Deer Golf Course, 352 Allenwood Camp Lane, Montgomery PA 17752. We would appreciate your RSVP via email to: morgan@responsibledrillingalliance.org

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 RDA Presents: The Life We Loved Is Gone by Lauren Deering

Since the gas industry began developing near our home…

1. No longer peaceful outdoors, 2. Awakened in the middle of the night by truck back-up alarms, 3. Light pollution, 4. Uncertainty about leaving the mountain and arriving on time for work and appointments, 5. Using Truman Run Road now requires extra gas and time to wait, 6. Extra gas when alternate route has to be used due to gas truck problems, 7. Devalued real estate, 8.Air Pollution, 9. Noise pollution, 10. Subsurface and surface, 11. Water contamination, 12. Creek pollution, 13. Extra wear and tear on vehicles due to large trucks and poor road conditions, 14. Protected species such as eagles no longer being seen, 15. Migratory birds no longer being seen, 16. We no longer walk our dog on township roads due to trucks and spillage of liquids, 17. The life we wanted is gone.

See a full description of the Deering home and property by Bob Deering on the RDA web-site.

RDA files complaint . . .

Complaint filed by the Responsible Drilling Alliance

The Responsible Drilling Alliance, a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization in Williamsport, PA, has filed a complaint against Penn State University. They are asking the Middle States Commission on Higher Education to consider this complaint in the context of the accreditation review of Penn State currently underway.  Like the issue that caused Middle States to begin its investigation into the universityʼs governance, this complaint also centers on the abuse of public trust by the university.

Penn State published three papers advocating for the shale gas industry which appeared to be independent research papers.

These papers contained greatly exaggerated projections of jobs, economic development, and tax revenues.

Coming from a highly regarded public research institution, the papers profoundly influenced the legislative debate in PA on taxes and regulation in favor of the gas industry. They became the rational for policy decisions by the former and current state administrations.

The three Penn State papers are consistent with similar works in other regions that the shale gas industry has commissioned and uses as a strategy to gain concessions.

The two lead authors have produced a series of similar papers, using their position in higher education, to advocate for narrow interest of the fossil fuel industry.

Penn State never distanced itself from the original paper and allowed its research reputation to be associated with the two subsequent releases after it became known that the authors and their work directly served the interest of the shale gas industry.

RDA is charging that Penn Stateʼs actions were unethical and constitute an abuse of the publicʼs trust.