DESCRIPTION: “An amateur pilot Steve White from Beaver County has been witnessing how Pennsylvania landscape has been changing during the last three years due to shale gas drilling. He takes Gas Rush Stories for a ride in the skies.” SEE ALSO: Watch more Gas Rush Stories: gasrushstories.com RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY The …
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DESCRIPTION: “Yolandita presents the imaginary Frack Family and their dog Rocky of Beaver county, PA who help us to visualize the staggering quantity of chemicals that were used in a typical frack job (hydraulic fracturing for natural gas extraction) near their imaginary house in the Marcellus shale region of western Pennsylvania.” SEE ALSO: RETURN …
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Demonstration of municipal drinking water quality.
Most of the footage in this segment was shot of the EPA Superfund Site, Sharon Steel Corp (Farrel Works Disposal Area) in Hermitage, Pa. This site is located near the Shenango River, which joins the Mahoning River South of New Castle to form the Beaver River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. “Plague” is an excerpt from …
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The Ohio River LifeBoat Project from the STUDIO’s previous fellow Carolyn Lambert was a four month journey on a customized boat. The LifeBoat hosted potluck dinners to discuss the intersections of recreation and commerce, culture and ecology of the Ohio River. Drawing on the personal stories and memories of towboat captains, swimmers, casino boat pilots, …
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