Today 12 environmentalists, members of Save Carbon County, boarded a bus in Lehighton for a trip down to Washington Crossing State Park for a meeting of the Delaware River Basin Commission.
Seven years ago the Commission declared a moratorium on fracking on any lands in the Delaware River Watershed, which includes all of Carbon County. The auditorium was filled with 200 fracking opponents and opponents of the PennEast/UGI pipeline.
The Carbon County contingent was the only group who chartered a bus. We all wore knit green “cat hats” with the ears sticking up. We took a picnic lunch of Subway sandwiches and pretzels and a cooler full of beer. (We may be environmentalists, but we are also rednecks from Carbon County.)
The testimony of audience members was truly impressive. The speakers pointed out major errors and outright falsehoods in documents submitted by PennEast/UGI. I don’t think the DRBC is likely to go along with any pipeline plans without major revisions in the documentation.
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