Press Releases

  • Gas Drilling To Begin On Penn State Lehman Campus
    Apr 29 2011 - 12:16pm

    Activist Gene Stilp said that he plans to bring a large drilling rig to the Penn State Lehman campus to begin exploration for natural gas as part of a plan to bring drilling to every university and college in the state.

  • The TRILLION Dollar Gorilla in the room
    Apr 21 2011 - 1:55pm

    PRESS RELEASE

    April 21, 2011

    Contact: Gloria Forouzan – 412.583.8757

    The trillion dollar gorilla in the room

    How do you tell Marcellus shale drillers – aka the trillion dollar gorilla – what to do?

    For Governor Corbett, the DEP’s Katy Gresh and industry spokesperson Kathryn Klaber the answer is simple: you don’t .

  • Shale drilling opponents to protest drilling industry conference
    Mar 27 2011 - 4:34pm

    MEDIA ADVISORY

    CONTACT: Ken Weir, 412.462.8916, Joni Rabinowitz: 412.260.0509

    Shale drilling opponents to protest drilling industry conference

    When: Tuesday - March 29 at 11:30 a.m.
    Where: Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, 107 6th St., downtown Pittsburgh, 15222

  • Gasland Creator Josh Fox Calls For Corbett Administration Overhaul Of Fracking Discourse
    Mar 17 2011 - 1:58pm

    gasland imageMilanville, PA (March 16, 2011) - Josh Fox calls for the Corbett Administration to further analyze the affects of fracking and overhaul its approach to public discourse on the matter after a member of PA Governor Corbett’s administration compared Fox’s Sundance award-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary film GASLAND to Nazi propaganda.

  • Marcellus Protest's statement for 3/10/11 Allegheny County Council Public Hearing on Marcellus Shale
    Mar 10 2011 - 9:00am

    Marcellus Protest and other organized communities have been requesting this County Council public hearing for three months. Our goal is to inform and educate both our communities and our decision makers.

  • Mountain Lake Park, Maryland Adopts Community Rights Ordinance That Bans Drilling for Natural Gas
    Mar 4 2011 - 4:40pm

    (Thursday, March 3, 2011) Mountain Lake Park in Garrett County, Maryland has joined Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in adopting unanimously a Community Bill of Rights that also “removes legal powers from gas extraction corporations within the Town.”

  • Pittsburgh City Councilman Shields Calls for Water Testing
    Mar 3 2011 - 5:52pm

    doug shieldsMarch 2, 2011 (Pittsburgh) - City Councilman Doug Shields today introduced a resolution that Council unanimously approved that calls on the Pennsylvania Water and Sewer Authority and Penn American Water to immediately begin testing for radioactive materials in Pittsburgh’s drinking water and to continue the tests on a regular basis as long as drilling is occurring.

  • PA Marcellus Shale gas activists to Rally in Harrisburg
    Jan 13 2011 - 3:28pm

    Pittsburgh’s Marcellus Protest group bringing activists from across SWPA to state capitol for Tom Corbett’s Jan. 18 Inauguration.

  • Governor Paterson Issues Executive Order on Hydraulic Fracturing
    Dec 11 2010 - 7:37pm

    Governor David A. Paterson has issued an Executive Order directing the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to conduct further comprehensive review and analysis of high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale.

  • Drilling Protest Planned at Carnegie Museum
    Dec 9 2010 - 3:51pm

    Marcellus Protest supporters are planning a peaceful protest during the Carnegie Museum's Annual Holiday Happy Hour to draw attention to the possible use of Powdermill Nature Reserve for Marcellus Shale drilling activity.