Blockade at PA Fracking Site Highlights Risks to Farms and Food

EcoWatch: Residents of Western Pennsylvania and friends of Lawrence County farmer Maggie Henry locked themselves to a giant paper-mache pig today in the entrance to a Shell natural gas well site in order to protest the company’s threat to local agriculture and food safety. The newly-constructed gas well is located at 1545 PA Route 108, Bessemer, PA , 16102, less than 4,000 feet from Henry’s organic pig farm. The farm has been in the Henry family for generations and has been maintained as a small business......

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