Drilling for Gas in PA. By Harold Brubaker, PhilyInquirer, July 6, 2008. "In a time of relentlessly rising energy prices, industry is after one of the hottest prospects in the United States -- gas trapped in the pores of a 365 million-year-old layer of rock called Marcellus shale that stretches from New York through West Virginia. It is especially promising in northeastern Pennsylvania. And especially troubling to local environmentalists. Drilling will lead to 'contaminated drinking water, carcinogens in the farmland and food chain, torn-up roads, risk of explosions, toxic air pollution, plummeting real estate values, and screeching noise pollution,' the group Damascus Citizens for Sustainability warns."
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