Photos from Pennsylvania

These are a few photos from the trip that I took with Freddy Fredrickson to Susquehanna County, Pa. They don't capture the scale of the fracked landscape. To see some really excellent (and devastating) photos visit this website. This is a huge archive of fracking sites in Pa. and West Virginia seen from the ground and the air. It is worth spending some time looking at what this site contains. And this site from West Virginia. This is a blog done by a student from Rochester Institute of Technology who spent time with the Manning family and this blog is from a follow up visit

The Mannings standing next to their "water buffalo"which is inside an insulated plywood box. Note stack on top of well that vents methane

Driving along rt6 east of Mansfield, Pa. Fracking site with windmills (hard to see) along the ridge in the distance.

Vera Scroggins , our tour guide

Fracking site

sign on Mannings " water buffalo"

The local swimming hole behind the Mannings house is now abandoned because of bubbling methane. Freddy attempts to light it.

Methane bubbles

Another "water buffalo"

Drinking water left on the Mannings front porch

water tanker

another "water Buffalo"

Halliburton fracking rigs.

we were told by a worker that each rig costs $1,000,000

Drinking water in the garage of Julie and Craig Sautner, Dimock, Pa.

Freddy Fredrickson and Craig Sautner, Dimock, Pa.

Methane exhaust chimney, Dimock, Pa.

another "water buffalo"

another "water buffalo"

No Billboard company in Pa. would post this display created by concerned citizens - now in the front yard of Dimock resident.

A compressor station that runs 24/7. They are extremely loud. There was a second one nearby that Vera pointed out to us that had exploded and burned