‘I’m just so angry’: Residents welcome grand jury report slamming Pa. oversight of fracking industry – By Megan Guza And Patrick Varine (Triblive) / June 27 2020
Breathing problems, unexplained illness, constant noise, light and smell of chemicals — all problems caused to residents by the oil and gas industry, a statewide grand jury found.
None of it sounded new to those who have been living near well pads and pipelines for years.
Since the Marcellus shale industry exploded in the region in the 2000s, thousands of wells have been drilled across Pennsylvania. The new industry boomed, and with it so did the price that companies were willing to pay landowners per acre to drill under their ground.
Some have suffered the effects without the payout. Rice Energy — bought by EQT in 2017 — began work on a well pad next to Dale Tiberie’s 4-acre property in West Pike Run around 2015. It’s not on his property, but it nearly surrounds it.
“I got gas lines all around me and a well pad on one side,” he said. “It was bulldozers and backhoes and backup alarms running 24/7.
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