Town Hall Meeting 7 - 9pm 4/21/2008
Representatives from PA DEP Bureau of Oil and Gas Management will do a presentation on regulatory procedures and permits for natural gas drilling.
Penn State Natural Gas Leasing Educational Representative Tom Murphy will also be on hand to speak about natural gas leasing.
Lakeland High School is located on PA 247, about 3 miles South of PA 106 (Finch Hill).
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If anyone goes to this meeting, please post whatever information you can add to this site. Thank you.
If you are so fortunate as to be able to ask a question of Mr. Murphy (who was at the Tunkhannock meeting), please inquire as to why there was a Congressional Oversight hearing last October on dangerous chemicals being used in the fracking fluid - and what DEP is doing to protect our water supply.
In the Tunkhannock meeting, Mr. Murphy appeared to not know about using anything but water and sand. This is probably not the case, if he read anything about the Oversight Committee, which I suspect in his line of work would have been virtually impossible to miss.
Thomas B. Murphy
tbm1@psu.edu
Penn State Cooperative Extension - Lycoming County
Montoursville, PA
570-433-3040
Office Hours: 8:00 - 4:30
Thompson: Thank you for the contact information. I will have someone send an email or call tomorrow as I will be out of town.
I am not casting aspersions toward Mr. Murphy, or anyone else here for that matter, just looking for answers. When a person’s response appears to be in direct conflict with the Congressional Oversight Committee’s position, it raises additional questions. No one is making acusations here, just want answers.
For the record, this writer asked a certain reader of this blog to contact Mr. Murphy, Penn State Extension at the number provided by Thompson, above. The caller was told that Mr. Murphy was going into a conference call and would not be available for about an hour. It was expected that he would return the call by the end of the day (Monday). Still no response as of the close of business Tuesday. The caller was asked to and did identify the reason or the call. Maybe this was the fatal mistake. In any event, in the next day or so, a specific email will be addressed to Mr. Murphy addresing the fracing process as well as the radioactive issue. It wil be interesting to see where this goes.
Again, at this point, still just looking for answers.