Road damage in Greene County

I was driving with a friend on route 221 through Greene County on Sunday to go bicycling on the Greene River trail near Rices Landing, and we found ourselves behind a brine water / residual waste truck -- presumably full of frack waste -- between Dunn Station and Ruff Creek.

Three problems:

1. The truck had no license plate!  The side of the truck said Curry Supply.

2. The truck often took up most of the road, creating a hazard for oncoming traffic.

3. There was severe road damage on route 221, perhaps from these wide, heavy frack trucks.  When I biked this road about two years ago, the edges of this road were not crumbling like this.  Damaged roads can cause a) crashes for bicyclists or motorcyclists, b) damage to car tires and suspensions, and c) additional safety problems as cars & trucks swerve to avoid holes in the road.

See photos:

https://picasaweb.google.com/pheckbert/FrackingGreeneCounty#

I'd like to visit Greene County again to go bicycling on its (formerly) nice roads but these safety issues make me think twice.  The gas industry should pay for their share of this road damage, since this appears to be so far beyond normal road wear.

 

-Paul

Pittsburgh

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Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on June 7, 2011 at 1:50pm

Anadarko to pay $20 million to improve roadways:

http://www.lockhaven.com/page/content.detail/id/531214/Anadarko-to-...

Permalink Reply by Daniel Rupert on June 9, 2011 at 1:32pm
Excellent!
Permalink Reply by Tom Brian on June 9, 2011 at 1:09pm

In Tioga Co. Pa. if you see a newly repaired or paved road , follow it and you will come to a gas well.

And the PADOT's input was to write the permision slip to allow the work to happen. enuff said...........

Permalink Reply by Daniel Rupert on June 9, 2011 at 1:34pm
Well said...Pardon the pun!
Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on June 10, 2011 at 10:36am
Amazing how some folks can manage to take a negative view of something so overwhelmingly and so obviously positive.
Permalink Reply by Daniel Rupert on June 10, 2011 at 10:51am

That is very obvious to us, "GLASS IS HALF FULL PEOPLE"! Mike, negative people usually put a negative spin on just about everything. I appreciate and respect everyones right to their opinion...that is the beauty of free speech. There is so much positive in these shale plays...I hope people can see that the positives, completely and overwhelmingly, outweigh the negatives.

 

Permalink Reply by Jim Walters on June 10, 2011 at 6:28pm

Ha! About the most positive statement I ever heard was the day we had a meeting on Okinawa just prior to my unit (the 173rd airborne brigade) being introduced into Vietnam . . .  when the SF Sergeant said. . . . . "Were gonna go down there and kick some ass and be back in six weeks" . . . . lotsa hoorahs, lotsa parties . . .

 

6 years later after 1700 KIA and about (no kidding) 10,000 casualties the 173rd was deactivated and sent home to the States . . .I still remember that one. . . . 

 

positive? negative? meaningless . . . . Lovely set of cliches though . . . . . 

 

probably everybody can remember a time in their lives when things seemed so right and ended up so wrong . .  

 

I'm sorry I wasn't going to post anymore, but I got such a laugh out of that, I had to . . . no more, I promise . . . .. .  . . . . I hope.

Permalink Reply by mark ayers on June 11, 2011 at 9:05am
Sorry for the losses your unit took 40 years ago, I can see how that could turn somebody negative and bitter. Those men were let down by incompetent leadership not by a lack of commitment to the objective.
Permalink Reply by farmgas on June 10, 2011 at 6:55pm

 

I`m really growing weary of this discussion.  I`m going to benefit personally from gas production on my property, and I`m for Marcellus Shale Gas exploration & production.   I also think MS production will contribute to our country`s need for energy independence plus economic growth by marketing our gas to overseas markets.   Yes, I am concerned about environmental issues and will encourage our DEP and political representatives to be vigilant to ensure O&G companies operate safely.  I do not believe I can change the viewpoints of those who are opposed any more the they will change mine!  Furthermore, I would like property owners to realize that their oil & gas would not be marketable without a O&G company taking the risk & expense for E&P.   Let`s all find a way to work together here...

Permalink Reply by Herbert G. Flavell on June 10, 2011 at 7:41pm
I'm with you farmgas. There is always someone ranting and raving how bad it is to drill for gas. Their if and's or buts get boring after awhile. If the world was perfect we would need no heat or gas to cook with but nothing is perfect. We just happen to live above the 2nd largest natural gas reservoir in the world. A few claim the drilling has ruined their water but this area has had burning water since long before they started drilling in this area. There is a man 4 or 5 miles from here that as a 6 year old took water to school in a jar. His teacher would light the water to show that water can burn. That man is now 76 years old. Many of the anti gas people are also believing the cool aid handed out by the oil, coal, solar,wind, hydo electric and atomic energy companies. None of whom want gas to show how much better it is than their products. But like us they will not change their minds. I still believe DRILL BABY DRILL I'm tired of paying $4.30 a gallon for oil to heat my home and making the Arabs richer..
Permalink Reply by craig on June 10, 2011 at 10:43pm
Well said Herbert !!!
Permalink Reply by Kerry parslow on June 11, 2011 at 12:34pm

I am distressed by the Pollyanna attitude and blinders that so many shale gas boosters have regarding the potential impacts of the drilling boom, in the short and long term.  Often missing from all the arguments is the fact that western and northern PA still have some of the highest rates of air pollution in the US.  How soon we forget the devastating environmental damage left by the cycles of strip coal mining and heavy steel production in the region and the many decades and billions of dollars of public funds it has taken to get to the modest level of cleaner streams and air we have now.  Even the most highly respected science and technology organization in the world, the IEEE, recently published this item of genuine concern about the substantiated water and air contamination produced by hydrofracking operations and its potential effect on global atmospheric conditions:

 

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/fossil-fuels/increasingl...

 

It seems like too many people are saying "Hey, who cares (and I don't even wanna hear about) whether my grandchildren inherit costly and maybe irreparable damage to their air and water and even climate, I'm gonna be rich for a few years."


The sole reason for this boom is the huge profit motive for the extractors -- don't kid yourself that there will be any long term benefit to our communities, on American dependence on foreign energy supplies or in any economic or lifestyle improvement for anyone but O & G shareholders, who are already rolling in windfall profits and government subsidies.  Wake up, folks.

 

 

 

 

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