FRAC Act
Dear editor: Senator Casey is to be commended for joining U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Jared Polis (D-CO) in introducing companion Senate and House bills: The FRAC Act — Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act, amending the Safe Drinking Water Act. This legislation will repeal an exemption that allows the oil and gas industry to keep secret the chemicals used when they drill wells. These chemicals, many of them known carcinogens, are used in the hydro-fracturing process for oil and gas extraction. This process can contaminate private and municipal drinking water supplies. In fact, in 2006, the DEP revealed that some oil and gas companies were taking short-cuts in the hydro-fracturing process in order to save money, which resulted in an increase in gas migrations. Coincidentally, gas migrations are to blame for contaminating several private water wells along Hedgehog Lane in Bradford, PA, where Ohio-based Schreiner Oil and Gas Co.
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Dear editor:
This letter goes out to everyone who attends Fourth of July celebrations in Warren:
Every year it seems to be a tradition that people attending the parade think it is acceptable to litter.
Four schools
Dear editor:
“4 Schools 4 Warren County”
These words and slogan will be seen more and more during the coming weeks. This letter states many persons’ position on the issue, including mine.
July 4th
Dear editor:
On the 4th of July we celebrate the birth of our nation.
As with a new born child our nation has parents that watch over her every day and protect her from harm. Our nation has grown and matured over the years.
Abortion
Dear editor:
Looking back most of us today shake our heads in disbelief to think that an institution as cruel and barbaric as slavery could have existed much less thrived in a country founded on the principles of freedom and equality as...
Response
Dear Editor,
We are writing to correct the astonishing amount of misinformation in the Reader’s Forum letter entitled “Europe,” as published in the WTO of June 18, 2009.
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