From the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW:
Mike Domach has spent a few weeks every year in the Pennsylvania wilderness for more than a decade. But gas drilling operations there have him wondering if it’s worth going anymore.
Natural gas compressors chug constantly, he said. Trees are cut away for Marcellus shale gas drilling well pads or to make room for related work. Placards and pink ribbons adorn some trees to note seismic testing, and discarded beer cans are common, said the Carnegie Mellon University chemical engineering professor who owns a cabin in Clinton County, in north-central Pennsylvania.
“The whole thing looks like a confetti truck exploded,” said Domach, 54, of Shadyside. “Maybe half of the forest, a lot of us just don’t go there anymore.”
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