EQT well pad blockade in Moshannon State Forest
July 8, 2012
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Tree Sitters halt fracking operations in PA State Forest
Tree sit anchors blockading frack site in Moshannon State Forest, Pa.
Activists from Marcellus Shale Earth First!, Earth Firsters from around the country and other friends and allies have erected a slash pile blockade and two tree sits blocking an access road to an EQT hydro-fracking site in Moshannon State Forest in Clearfield Co., Pa., halting drilling operations set to begin this week. The blockaders were joined by 40 supporters and concerned citizens, who turned around a Halliburton truck. The blockade is trying to stop the further destruction of Pennsylvania’s state forests—more than half of which have already been leased for drilling—and call attention to the devastating effects of hydrofracking on the state’s communities. The sitters’ anchor lines are blocking the road by crossing each other and the road, and if an anchor line is cut a sitter will fall.
Today’s blockade is the latest in a series of escalating actions of resistance to the destructive impacts of hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale.
More, with updates at http://marcellusearthfirst.org/