PA Marcellus News Digest 1/4/13

PA Marcellus News Digest

January 4, 2013
SPECIAL: "Promised Land" In-Theater Drilling Industry Ad   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKZk5H1f1o8

Don't Frack Our "Promised Land"

Promised Land

Promised Land, a compelling new movie about natural gas fracking and the costs a community must bear, opens nationwide January 4.

Releases

MSC Engages Public With Natural Gas Facts, Counters ‘Promised Land’
Wallaby
Jan 4
Pittsburgh, Pa. – With the movie Promised Land opening in theaters across the nation today, the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) is launching a campaign in Pennsylvania theaters and on social media channels to respond to the work of fiction with real facts and responsible conversation around the issue of natural gas development.
Link: http://wallaby.telicon.com/PA/library/2013/2013010468.HTM

Fracking on Film: As Promised Land opens, group warns of dirty drilling damage to health and the environment
Wallaby
Jan 4
(Pittsburgh) As the new Matt Damon movie, Promised Land, opened in theaters today, PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center sounded the alarm about the very real damage fracking is doing here in Pennsylvania.
Link: http://wallaby.telicon.com/PA/library/2013/2013010458.HTM
Articles 

The Truthiness of “Promised Land,” Five Things to Know Before You Go
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
Jan 4
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/01/04/the-truthiness-of-promised-land-five-things-to-know-before-you-go/

Gov. Corbett should back more renewable energy requirements
Patriot-News
Rep. Greg Vitali
Letter to the Editor
Jan 4
The World Meteorological Organization recently reported that an area of arctic ice bigger than the United States melted this year. This prompted WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud to state: “Climate change is taking place before our eyes…” This is just the latest in a stream of increasingly dire climate change news.
Link: http://www.pennlive.com/letters/index.ssf/2013/01/gov_corbett_should_back_more_r.html

‘Absolutely not’
Many oppose power plant
Sun-Gazette
Mike Reuther
Jan 4
Numerous people Thursday night expressed their opposition to Moxie Energy's plans to build a power plant in Clinton Township.
Link: http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/587595/-Absolutely-not-.html?nav=5011

Locally made ‘Promised Land’ eyes drilling controversy
Pitt Trib
William Loeffler
Jan 3
Another fracking controversy is brewing. But this one is on the big screen.
Link: http://triblive.com/aande/movies/3206756-74/promised-says-damon#axzz2H2B2ZFhg

'Alarmingly High Methane Emissions' from Natural Gas Extraction
New findings suggest higher than previously noted levels of potent greenhouse gas leaked
Common Dreams
Andrea Germanos
Jan 3
New research on "alarmingly high methane emissions" brings further environmental scrutiny to natural gas extraction including fracking, and illustrates how the boom in the industry may well be a plan for climate disaster.
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/03-4?print