Thank you for visiting our table at Farm Aid! Berks Gas Truth, a PA grassroots fractivist group, teamed up with NY’s Finger Lakes Clean Waters Initiative to give Farm Aid attendees both sides of the fracking experience. Shale gas development has been going on for a decade in Pennsylvania. Based on the number of international media organizations that contact groups like ours, our state appears to be the world’s negative role model on fracking. Meanwhile, thanks to the continuing efforts of the Finger Lakes Clean Waters Initiative and so many other organizations in NY, a moratorium remains in effect. The farming community has been particularly hard-hit in Pennsylvania.
Below are some links to articles, reports, and other resources on fracking’s impact on farming, but please visit the other parts of our sites for even more information.
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Finger Lakes Clean Waters Initiative
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| Dairy Farms Suffer in US Shale Gas Fracking Boom | 2013 Ecologist special report. | Article |
| A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine | ProPublica article on quarantine in North Central, PA in 2010. | Article |
| Effects of Fracking Laid Out: PA Farmers Speak during SP Meeting | Report on PA farmers Carol French and Carolyn Knapp talk on impacts of drilling. | Article |
| Fracking Our Foodshed | Informative brochure from New York’s GasMain.org. | Brochure |
| Fracking with Our Food: How Gas Drilling Affects Farming | Grist’s Barry Estabrook examines the issues in PA and elsewhere | Article |
| Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health | Michelle Bamberger, VMD, and Robert E. Oswald, Ph.D. excellent paper on health effects. | Article |
| PASA Statement on Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction | Adopted in June 2012, PASA’s statement supporting a moratorium on drilling. | Statement |