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Boogiemack

(1,406 posts)
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:11 AM Nov 2020

In PA fracking is all about money for a few. In the country, COVID is sickness and maybe death

for many. What is it that PA voters don't get about this? There will be many jobs that won't be health hazards in a new clean economy. That's what I want for my grandchildren, not black lung disease or more polluted water.

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In PA fracking is all about money for a few. In the country, COVID is sickness and maybe death (Original Post) Boogiemack Nov 2020 OP
I'm from Pa, gab13by13 Nov 2020 #1
We had a friend in NE Pennsylvania PJMcK Nov 2020 #2

gab13by13

(21,255 posts)
1. I'm from Pa,
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:19 AM
Nov 2020

and when the argument first arose about allowing fracking here we were promised 10's of thousands of jobs. Today it's a joke about seeing all of the white pickup trucks with Texas or Oklahoma license plates. They are the people doing the fracking in Pa.

PJMcK

(21,995 posts)
2. We had a friend in NE Pennsylvania
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:22 AM
Nov 2020

She was a pleasant older lady my wife met at the farmers’ market. She owned about 500 acres of woodlands and told us she had sold the tracking rights for $1,000 an acre. Then she moved to New Mexico.

Some friend.

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