The Lynett family, owner of Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper and the affiliated Northeast Driller, has been simultaneously trashing the natural gas industry and profiting from it. Now it has allied itself with an anti-gas group in what may be an attempt to steer business toward another business venture – an environmental services company.

The Scranton Times-Tribune launched another attack on the natural gas industry in last Sunday’s edition with the outrageous top of the fold front page headline of “Drilling Killing Water.” It included key facts a savvy reader would recognize as the tip-off there wasn’t much there, but, overall, the message can be summed up as “Gee, this industry could use some help documenting pre-existing water conditions and dealing with all these issues, couldn’t it?” Perhaps not so coincidentally, the Lynett family, which owns both the Scranton Times-Tribune and the expanding Northeast Driller, a special newspaper catering to the industry, also owns Elk Lake Capital, LLC, which just purchased a company called Environmental Services Laboratories Inc. that provides those services.

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