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Josh Fox and Other Drilling Opponents to Protest at Philly Marcellus Convention

Scott Detrow / WITF

Filmmaker Josh Fox protests outside Governor Corbett's office in June

While the east coast prepares for the onslaught of Hurricane Irene, gas drilling opponents are planning their own storm for the September Marcellus Shale Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. “Shale Gas Insight” is sponsored by the industry group The Marcellus Shale Coalition, which will host the convention on September 7th and 8th in Philadelphia. On the speakers list are Pennsylvania’s current Governor Tom Corbett, as well as former governors Ed Rendell and Tom Ridge.

But activists have recruited their own celebrities and are planning a counter-conference, which they’re calling “Shale Gas Outrage.” Josh Fox, the director of Gasland will speak at noon on September 7, just before protesters march through Center City Philadelphia. Evening festivities include a “blessing of the waters” along the Delaware River.

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  • http://twitter.com/economic_status -MM-

    Dear Mr. President Obama, Gov. Cuomo
    and all people who should protect your voters and the nation!

    To allow immediately the extraction of natural gas at all places the DEC has already declared outside watersheds is the only way to save the future.
    The economy hits rock bottom, the cure is in your hands but you gave the power to a group of environmental extremists. They want a perfect regulation but that is impossible. Not one kind of industry is without risks, not now and not in future. They are talking about environmental impacts caused by natural gas drilling. But they cannot exhibit any evidence, not one. They are just playing for time to find a basement for the own unfounded pronouncements and theses. They are talking about methane in aqueducts. Nobody ask first the person who has drilled the water well on the farm whether it has hit any methane shale. Just for example.
    A lot of studies based on canards. That is a modern version of the inquisition.
    They do not see more than the own tunnel straight ahead.
    They will wait until the economic disaster is irreversible.
    The U.S. economy is down.
    Smaller companies will become insolvent, not just gas drillers.
    A lot more people will be unemployed. Maybe some small town will die.
    Infrastructures will be destroyed and the U.S. economy won’t be better.
    Alone the current official plan to balance the debt won’t be sufficient, on the contrary.
    Investors will be discouraged.
    Every child knows that you cannot expect to get juice from a dry pressed fruit.
    Certainly you can try other methods, from the other side or with more pressure, but it won’t work.
    You have to find another fruit to get juice.
    Your fruit is natural gas.
    So just take back the responsibility from the DEC and take action, before it is too late.
    Every day without natural gas drilling will be a month to repair the economic aftermath.

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