NEW THREATS TO PENNSYLVANIA’S BIG SPRING CREEK AND LOGAN BRANCH

by Paul Weamer • March 10, 2012 • 6 comments

These articles aren’t really a surprise.  Pennsylvania has a long tradition of allowing the most harmful industries known to mankind to set up shop along the banks of its best trout waters.  Pennsylvania used to use the slogan, “You have a friend in Pennsylvania,” in all of its tourist adds.  But PA’s best friend has become toxic industries, political pay-offs,  and superfund sites.  My home state may be the worst environmental steward in the country.

 

Proposed chicken farm on Big Spring Creek:

http://www.wgal.com/news/30624806/detail.html

 

Titan Energy Park to be built on Spring Creek tributary, Logan Branch:

http://www.centredaily.com/2012/02/15/3090819/investors-buy-cerro-metals-site.html

 

Here are some highlights from the Logan Branch link:

“The newly named Titan Energy Park will be marketed primarily but not exclusively to the natural gas industry and its booming activity in the Marcellus Shale”

“It’s got lots of space, rail siding, a waste energy plant, a sewage treatment plant, and an abundance of spring water,” Lauth said. “We think it’s a very unique site and a great opportunity for investors to create jobs in the area.”

I realize that unemployment is high, but creating jobs, no mater the cost, is sure to cost us a great deal in the future.  Perhaps Pennsylvania’s plan is to make the state so toxic, so unappealing, that few people will want to live here.  But then, if enough people leave the state, there will be plenty of jobs for those radioactive residents who remain.

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  • WoollyBooger

    These "job creaters" are like hyenas foaming at the mouth waiting to attack. It's like they've been waiting years and years for the economy to go bad so they can finally push their wild agendas. In a normal economy, I suppose most people would come to their senses and realize the future risks associated with these jobs and these proposals probably wouldn't fly. But this is their time to strike I suppose. When people have their guard down, and they're desperate and perhaps fearful. A great way to get create jobs (well, make dirty profit) is to exploit these fears. Hey, lets start logging the giant Sequoias and deplete public reservoirs to make bottled water plants. JOBS! Or maybe create mining jobs in critical salmon habitat?! oh wait, nevermind.

    • Paul Weamer

      How about a fracking well in the middle of the Washington Monument reflecting pool? There's plenty of water there to mix with carcinogens. I know there's a lot of hot gas in D.C. What about under it? Think of all the jobs!

  • http://www.crosscurrentguideservice.com Joe Demalderis

    Knuckleheads.

  • korbin

    "an abundance of spring water"………wow, i'm assuming that abundance is the Logan branch itself.

    • Paul Weamer

      Yeah, I'm afraid of that too.

      • Andrew Ramish

        Living here my entire life I have watched the decline of the American dream, and stood witness to the burden of middle class America. ( The class most effected negatively by NAFTA ) We are hungry for jobs, we need there money. Is there anyone out there who can help us. President Carter where are you when we need you, your predecessors are RAPING your fishing hole AGAIN.