Welcome to Berks Gas Truth’s page of resources updated for the Homegrown Village, Farm Aid 2017! Visit the other pages on our site for much more information on fracking and shale gas infrastructure.
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Articles & Studies
Right of Way, The Intercept, 2017
Landowner Continues Fight against Pipeline as Crews Begin Clearing Trees, PennLive, 2017
Eminent Domain Is Becoming a Crucial, Controversial Part of the Gas Pipeline Boom, The Allegheny Front, 2016
How Uncertain Property Rights Affect Agriculture in West Virginia, Appalachian Voices, 2016
Fracking the Farm: Scientists Worry About Chemical Exposure to Livestock and Agriculture, Truthout, 2014
Potential Impact of Fracking Worries Northeast Ohio Farmers, WKSU News, 2014
When Drought Occurs, Fracking and Farming Collide, Denver Post, 2014
Dairy Farms Suffer in US Shale Gas Fracking Boom, Ecologist special report, 2013
Fracking and Farmland, EcoWatch, 2013
How Fracking Affects Your Farmer’s Market, HuffPost, 2013
A Dairy Farmer Shares Her Story about Fracking: “What Have We Done?”, Public Herald, 2012
Risk and Responsibility: Farming, Food, and Unconventional Gas Drilling, Independent Science News, 2012
Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health, New Solutions, 2012
Fracking Our Food Supply, The Nation, 2012
Effects of Fracking Laid Out (PA Dairy Farmers French & Knapp), ThePilot.com, 2011
Fracking with Our Food: How Gas Drilling Affects Farming, Grist, 2011
A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine, ProPublica, 2010
Resources
Shalefield Stories, Friends of the Harmed
PASA Statement on Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction
Testimonials from Farmers Read at Pennsylvania Farm Show Rally, 2016
Letter to Governor Tom Wolf Signed by 100 Pennsylvania Farmers, 2016