{"id":2770,"date":"2020-01-21T07:31:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2020-01-23T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:42:34","slug":"release-removal-of-road-spreading-of-drilling-waste-provision-does-not-make-sb790-a-good-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"Release: Removal of Road-Spreading of Drilling Waste Provision Does Not Make SB790 a Good Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 January 21,\n2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact: Karen Feridun, Berks Gas\nTruth, 610-678-7726, berksgastruth@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Removal of Road-Spreading of Drilling Waste Provision Does\nNot Make SB790 a Good Bill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>195 Organizations and 1,655\nConcerned Citizens Have Now Signed Letters to Legislators Opposing Bill<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Bombshell Report in Rolling Stone\nValidates Concerns Regarding Radioactive Elements in Waste<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the House prepares for third consideration of SB790, Berks Gas Truth is submitting to committee members a copy of a <a href=\"https:\/\/4825d078-f0fb-4e80-8fe9-5c576d8cdc6c.usrfiles.com\/ugd\/4825d0_02a3e0fcea4046fb8f8c8ca001521bbf.pdf\">letter<\/a> sent in October to lawmakers and Governor Wolf. \u00a0The group is submitting a <a href=\"https:\/\/4825d078-f0fb-4e80-8fe9-5c576d8cdc6c.usrfiles.com\/ugd\/4825d0_2393ab65372b4c4cbd8207931820edce.pdf\">letter<\/a> to state senators calling for them to vote no should the bill pass the House. Collectively, 195 organizations and 1,655 individuals have expressed their opposition to the bill. Senate Bill 790 introduced by Senator Joseph Scarnati (R-25) provides benefits to conventional drillers that put the public and our environment in peril, including a loosening of the requirements for reporting spills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bombshell\nreporting published today by Justin Nobel for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389\/\">Rolling\nStone<\/a><\/em> exposes the dangers of radioactivity associated with oil and gas\ndrilling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJustin Nobel\u2019s reporting\nshows that, once again, the&nbsp; frontline\ncommunities, concerned citizens, and advocates are on the right side of the\nissue. Even with road-spreading of drilling waste removed, SB790 remains a\ndangerous bill our legislature must reject. Today\u2019s reporting is just the\nlatest evidence that drilling will never be safe. It\u2019s time for our legislature\nto put the health and safety of the people and our environment first.\u201d said <strong>Karen Feridun, Founder of Berks Gas Truth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The letter\ncloses, \u201cOur more fundamental\nconcern with SB790 is that it will enable more oil and gas drilling in\nPennsylvania when it is clear that we are nearly out of time to address the\nclimate crisis. Our legislature should be looking for ways to speed the\ntransition away from the production of fossil fuels and petrochemicals. As we\nhave heard so often, our house is on fire. Stop fanning the flames.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 January 21, 2019 Contact: Karen Feridun, Berks Gas Truth, 610-678-7726, berksgastruth@gmail.com Removal of Road-Spreading of Drilling Waste Provision Does Not Make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}