2011 April 28 - damascus citizens for sustainability

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Federal EPA Demands Answers from Chesapeake Energy on Well Blowout in Bradford County Last Week

April 28, 2011

Chesapeake Energy has successfully replaced a wellhead that was defective and had caused a blowout with fracking fluid escaping from a well in Leroy Township near Canton in Bradford County, PA last week. Over a two day period, fracking fluid ran over neighboring land and some of it into a … Continue reading

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Benton gas well hearing canceled but protestors crowd community center

April 28, 2011

LAURA LEGERE, The Times-Tribune

$farmersagainstfracking$ BENTON TWP. – A hearing to consider a conditional use application for a natural gas well was canceled Wednesday evening but about 150 people rallied at the hearing site to oppose gas drilling in the township.