Pipelines
Before you sign any paper giving someone else the right to build something on your land, you need a lawyer. Here are some links as to what concerns us about pipelines:
Before you sign any paper giving someone else the right to build something on your land, you need a lawyer. Here are some links as to what concerns us about pipelines:
- A list of pipeline "incidents".
- A list of possible issues a lawyer should look at. Remember, you might check your physician's diagnosis by reading on the internet, but we hope you wouldn't treat a life-threatening disease this way. Most pipeline easements are forever; if the company goes out of business, they aren't going to come and dig the pipeline up and restore the trees they cut down.
- PA Report on conservation impacts of natural gas pipelines.
SOCIAL IMPACTS ON A COMMUNITY
Click here to find out what Dr. Perry discovered in her research on community impacts: "It's Like We're Losing Our Love" Documenting and Evaluating Social Change in Bradford County PA During the Shale Gas Boom 2009-2011 by Simona Perry, PHD, Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute, November 18, 2011. After 3 yrs. studying rural life alongside a river in Bradford PA just as the drilling boom was beginning, she concludes that people’s reactions are similar to those who have been abused.
