Watching methane flaring. Gas drilling has been associated with increased air pollution.
Cassie and Scott Spencer - their well water was contaminated allegedly by Cheseapeake Energy's gas drilling operations. A "water buffalo" sits on their property which has lost 80 percent of its value. After they decided to sue Chesapeake energy, the drilling company stopped providing them with bottled water.
Fracking operations at a natural gas well pad in Susquehanna County
Flare from drilling activities lights up a nearby apple tree, seen from the front yard of a home that was evacuated by the owners due to drilling.
Fracking operations on a well pad in Franklin Forks.
A flare from a natural gas well lights up the night sky behind a farmhouse that had leased its land to natural gas companies.
NICK DeREMER, 22, Kayak tour operator, shows where methane has been bubbling in the Susquehanna River. He attributes it to gas drilling and wants to leave his home state because of the the shale exploration.
The front yard of Craig and Julie Sautner, one of the Dimock 11 families, who had their water contaminated by Cabot Oil and Gas.
Jodie Simons and Jason Lamphere demonstrate how their sink water lights on fire. It is full of methane. Their water was pristine before gas drilling started. Their neighbors' water is also contaminated but the state Department of Environmental protection has not determined the source of the problem. They have been without clean drinking or bathing water for months. Their animals also became sick and they now give bottled water to their horses. A methane vent rises from their property.
Drilling operations in Bradford County on a dairy farm.
Jodie Simons and Jason Lamphere provide bottled water for their horses after their well water was contaminated allegedly by drilling activities. After months of living with methane in their water wells, the DEP has still not made a definitive report as to the cause of the problem.
Methane Flaring from gas drilling wells lights up a dirt road.
The water coming out of the faucet of Jodie Simon's home.
Shale Gas drilling rig on dairy farm property.
Water Trucks lining up in the middle of the night at a water intake system in Wyalusing. A million gallons of water a day are needed to support one well. It takes 1000 trucks to frack a gas well. The water is drawn from the Susquehanna River. While the trucks are waiting they keep their engines on and the smell of diesel fuel permeates the air.
Pipeline construction for gas delivery.
Shale Gas drilling exploration using Hydraulic fracturing.
Methane Flaring from shale gas drilling wells.
Frank Finan, a local "Fracktivist" removes an air quality tester from the trunk of his car to get readings from a neighbor who is living by a methane well flare. With an absence of strict regulations and monitoring, local residents doing their own air and water monitoring.
Protesters against gas drilling and the technique of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) outside Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) office where the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission was holding a meeting.
Jason Lamphere outside his trailer home where his water has been contaminated he believes by gas drilling. The white pole is a methane ventilator but his water still explodes. The DEP has taken several months and still has not made a determination.
Matt Walker with the Clean Air Council, visits the one room home of organic farmers Adron and Mary Delarosa to alert them to a meeting about a compressor station planned near their home. The compressor station was the final straw. That and the four wells within 1 mile of their home convinced them to leave the state early in 2012.
Shale Gas drilling rig on dairy farm property.
Susan Breese one of 13 families suing Southwestern Energy for allegedly contaminating her well water during shale gas drilling operations. She gets her drinking water from a small spring in her backyard. She bathes in her well water which is contaminated with barium. She is considering leaving Pennsylvania.
Young Sola Delarosa seen outside her one room home. She and her parents, organic farmers Adron and Mary Delarosa are afraid of the environmental and economic impact of the shale exploration. They live within 1 mile of four wells and a compressor station is being planned nearby. They decided to eave Pennsylvania in 2012.
Jodie Simons daughter, lives without drinking or bath water as it has been contaminated, allegedly by gas drilling operations.
Methane burns and flares from wells in Springville, Pennsylvania.
