Earth First! Demo at Anadarko headquarters (33 W. Third Street in Williamsport) to protest drilling in Loyalsock.
On Friday September 13th, 7:45 am, Endless Mountains Earth First! cordially invites you to come to Williamport, PA to visit Anadarko Petroleum Corporation offices to protest drilling in the Loyalsock.
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC) has plans to invade the revered Loyalsock State Forest in northeast Pennsylvania with over two dozen hydro-fracking well-pads, multiple pipelines, access roads, and other associated infrastructure. Thousands of acres are at risk; including mature forest ecosystems, unique habitats such as high elevation wetlands and exceptional value streams teeming with trout. This area is home to several rare and threatened species including the Timber Rattlesnake, Northern Water Shrew, Yellow Bellied Flycatcher, as well as several carnivorous plants such as the Pitcher Plant. The Loyalsock is the line in the sand for many locals who frequent the forest to hike, swim, camp, hunt, fish, and take solace in its wild and mostly undisturbed forest lands.
Anadarko could start road work as early as this October in preparation for tree cutting to build well pads beginning November first, we need your help to stop them NOW! Marcellus Shale Earth First! and allies throughout the region will gather at the APC office in downtown Williamsport to protest their proposed plans and call them out on their heinous and numerous past violations.
We already know how APC does business; DIRTY. They have repeatedly utilized faulty well casings (unreported), spilled 12,000 gallons of carcinogenic drilling mud in Sproul State Forest, evaded their responsiblity in the death of eleven Deep Water Horizon workers, and have shown an inability to maintain its waste water containment pits.
We ask you to come out on Friday, September 13th to stand in solidarity with local EF!ers and other groups who have been working in defense of this beautiful and wild forest.
Anadarko is bad luck for the Loyalsock, but bad luck for Anadarko when Earth First comes to town!
Please look closely into the faces of the people in these pictures.
This is the courage we must muster if we are going to stop the extreme extraction of the last greasy, money wrapped drops of fossil fuel.
These are the faces of that courage.
This was a jubilant demonstration of will and commitment.
These are the people I was proud to stand with today: 3.20.14.
Williamsport.
Anadarko Headquarters.
Anadarko: We will not give you peace until you leave our forests, our water, our communities, our families, our farms and yards, our streams and rivers alone.
The ground under every step we take is a special place.
And you may not have it.
You think our straw is your gold.
But the truth is that our straw is the sum of our work, and we intend to keep it.
Get. Out.
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