Transition on WITF

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WITF

Clean Air Board Community Meeting on January 6, 2011

Clean Air Board Community Meeting, “Atmospheric Deposition in Pennsylvania”

Elizabeth W. Boyer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Water Resources, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment and Director, PA Water Resources Research Center, will speak.

Prof. Boyer will report on the status and trends of acid rain and mercury deposition.  She recently completed reports for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection examining the data from the Pennsylvania atmospheric deposition network.

The presentation will be held at the Second Presbyterian Church, 528 Garland Drive, Carlisle, PA 17013, on Jan. 6, at 7 pm. 

Tony Ingraffea to speak in Luzerne County

Dr. Tony Ingraffea will be at Luzerne County Community College (LCCC) in Nanticoke on  Thursday, December 16, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

His bio at Cornell:
Ingraffea spent two years as a structural engineer with the Grumman Aerospace Corporation and two years as a county engineer with the Peace Corps in Venezuela before he began doctoral studies. He has taught structural mechanics, finite element methods,and fracture mechanics at Cornell since 1977.

Mohawk Thanksgiving Prayer

(This is an excerpt from Findhorn's website) 

The Earth Mother

We are all thankful to our Mother, the Earth, for she gives us all that we need for life. She supports our feet as we walk about upon her. It gives us joy that she continues to care for us as she has from the beginning of time. To our mother, we send greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Waters
We give thanks to all the waters of the world for quenching our thirst and providing us with strength. Water is life. We know its power in many forms-waterfalls and rain, mists and streams, rivers and oceans. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to the spirit of Water.

Now our minds are one.

Meeting on Thursday, December 2nd

We will be joining the Gas Truth folks at Midtown Scholar this week. Planning our demonstration at Toxic Tom Corbett's inauguration will be the main focus. Please come with your ideas to add to the planned mayhem :-)

First Annual Harrisburg Soup Swap

"Soup Swaps" started in Seattle a few years ago, and it sounds like a wonderful way to meet neighbors and make new friends! So, let's get several communities in the Harrisburg area to have Soup Swaps on Saturday, January 22, 2011....

Valley facility cleans 357,000 gallons of fracking water

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4645166

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(Source: The Daily Item)By Evamarie Socha, The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa.

Nov. 05--A Snyder County facility processed about 357,000 barrels of fracking water and related drilling fluids, delivered by about 700 trucks using Routes 11-15 between July 2009 and June 2010, according to information on a newly launched state website.

DEP has a list of chemicals that companies use in their hydraulic fracturing fluids in Pennsylvania; however "We don't have exact concentrations because it's proprietary information of the companies," said Jamie Legenos, a DEP information specialist.

DEP Oil & Gas Reporting website