Special interest groupies practiced deceit at those DRBC hearings in Waymart on Tuesday while carefully pretending not to see the Blue Whale in the Delaware.

Supporters of an ill-conceived fracking ban who showed up at DRBC hearings in Waymart on Tuesday—the “special interest groupies,” as Fred Peckham so nicely described them—were churning out nonsense in all the usual ways but they were also doing something else. They were engaged in the cliched behavior of “ignoring the elephant in the room,” except that this doesn’t really do justice to the scope of their actions. No, this is much bigger than an elephant; it’s more like ignoring the Blue Whale in the Delaware or the Susquehanna.

What I’m talking about, of course, is this Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) conclusion, after thousands of fracked gas wells and nearly a decade of water quality monitoring by that agency (which is essentially the same people as the DRBC):

…the Commission’s remote water quality monitoring network  has not detected discernible impacts on the quality of the Basin’s water resources as a result of natural gas development…

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/special-interest-groupies-practice-denial-drbc-hearings/