Approximately 45 people met in the former Flow Restaurant in Jim Thorpe to hear talks by Maya VanRossum, the Executive Director of Delaware Riverkeepers, and Sam Koplinka-Loehr, the Shale Gas Organizer of the Clean Air Council.
The overwhelming majority of the people in the audience were opposed to the PennEast pipeline, which, if the present route is approved, will slice through Kidder, Penn Forest, Towamensing, and Lower Towamensing Townships, ripping through three state parks--Hickory Run, Lehigh Gorge, and Beltzville.
The pipeline project, bringing fracking gas to the coast, where it can be shipped overseas, will cost about a billion dollars. The 45 people in the room can’t match that. Neither can the ospreys, the bog turtles, and the Indiana bats whose habitats will be impacted. It is David vs. Goliath again.
If you don’t remember your Bible, David won.
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