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Hello Forum Readers,
Dennis Wydra, northeast regional director for the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania Inc. recently sent an e-mail to the state Legislature in support of Marcellus drilling on state game lands.
With his permission, the text of the e-mail follows, but in order to provide proper context, it needs to be prefaced:
The larger goal of Unified Sportsmen is improved habitat for game on state gamelands. More specifically the goals are to improve management of existing lands, which means increasing the diversity of successional stages in the forests of state game lands (increases plant diversity and thus game habitat).
Mr. Wydra's personal fact-finding efforts led him to discover that two producing wells currently existing on State Game Lands 100 are in close proximity to a sportsmen club's existing trout-raising facility fed by Sandy Run. According to Mr. Wydra, while there was an aquifer disturbance in October, 2008, that created two-days of turbidity in Sandy Run, and increased turbidity is a "pollution" or "degradation", there were no fish killed in the trout-raising facility, and there have been no lasting effects.
Also note, I have NOT attached the video or Power Point attachments, as they seem to add nothing substantial to the message. Also, I am not a member of Unified Sportsmen.
Sent: Tue Feb 23 11:19:46 2010
Subject: Marcellus Drillers Set New State Trout Record
Dear PA Senators and State Reps:
It is easy for Conservationists to Support Marcellus Drilling when the drillers have NOT KILLED a single trout anywhere in Pennsylvania the past 3 years. In fact, the Pennsylvania Fish Commission hatcheries are all located in the Marcellus play. Gary Moore informed me this past October that the PA Fish Commission has not found a single trout killed anywhere in Pennsylvania as a result of Marcellus Drilling.
Great care has been taken by the drillers not to NOT to pollute our streams and now they are quickly moving to recycle ALL WATER withdrawn from the Susquehanna River Watershed. The Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania just released Conservationists Support Marcellus Drilling.
Open the 3-slide Power-point attached to this email and PLAY the slideshow to see Brook trout swimming just ½ mile away from the PA Game Commission’s only 2 Marcellus Wells in production. While Carl Roe recently reported to the legislature these wells caused environmental degradation, we discovered that EXCO North Coast, the company that drilled their wells, hit a deep aquifer and caused Little Sandy Run to get muddy for 2 days. Not a trout was lost or killed because of these wells and USP does NOT consider this to be environmental degradation.
The attached video was shot this past October after visiting the Game Commission’s 2 Litke Wells on SGL 100 and the cooperative brook trout nursery operated by the 3 Points Sportsmen’s Club and the PA Fish Commission. This trout nursery is also on SGL 100 about ½ mile away. The PGC’s right-to-know officer denied our request for information on these wells, but we found them anyway and took our own photographs. Soon you will learn why the PGC does not want anyone to know the real story about their only 2 Marcellus producing wells. See these Game Lands 100 photos below.
The Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania supports responsible drilling on ALL public and private lands in the Commonwealth and our attached article gives valid reasons for doing so.
Dr. Dennis Wydra
Northeast Regional Director
Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania
570-672-7278
Dennis Wydra, northeast regional director for the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania Inc. recently sent an e-mail to the state Legislature in support of Marcellus drilling on state game lands.
With his permission, the text of the e-mail follows, but in order to provide proper context, it needs to be prefaced:
The larger goal of Unified Sportsmen is improved habitat for game on state gamelands. More specifically the goals are to improve management of existing lands, which means increasing the diversity of successional stages in the forests of state game lands (increases plant diversity and thus game habitat).
Mr. Wydra's personal fact-finding efforts led him to discover that two producing wells currently existing on State Game Lands 100 are in close proximity to a sportsmen club's existing trout-raising facility fed by Sandy Run. According to Mr. Wydra, while there was an aquifer disturbance in October, 2008, that created two-days of turbidity in Sandy Run, and increased turbidity is a "pollution" or "degradation", there were no fish killed in the trout-raising facility, and there have been no lasting effects.
Also note, I have NOT attached the video or Power Point attachments, as they seem to add nothing substantial to the message. Also, I am not a member of Unified Sportsmen.
Sent: Tue Feb 23 11:19:46 2010
Subject: Marcellus Drillers Set New State Trout Record
Dear PA Senators and State Reps:
It is easy for Conservationists to Support Marcellus Drilling when the drillers have NOT KILLED a single trout anywhere in Pennsylvania the past 3 years. In fact, the Pennsylvania Fish Commission hatcheries are all located in the Marcellus play. Gary Moore informed me this past October that the PA Fish Commission has not found a single trout killed anywhere in Pennsylvania as a result of Marcellus Drilling.
Great care has been taken by the drillers not to NOT to pollute our streams and now they are quickly moving to recycle ALL WATER withdrawn from the Susquehanna River Watershed. The Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania just released Conservationists Support Marcellus Drilling.
Open the 3-slide Power-point attached to this email and PLAY the slideshow to see Brook trout swimming just ½ mile away from the PA Game Commission’s only 2 Marcellus Wells in production. While Carl Roe recently reported to the legislature these wells caused environmental degradation, we discovered that EXCO North Coast, the company that drilled their wells, hit a deep aquifer and caused Little Sandy Run to get muddy for 2 days. Not a trout was lost or killed because of these wells and USP does NOT consider this to be environmental degradation.
The attached video was shot this past October after visiting the Game Commission’s 2 Litke Wells on SGL 100 and the cooperative brook trout nursery operated by the 3 Points Sportsmen’s Club and the PA Fish Commission. This trout nursery is also on SGL 100 about ½ mile away. The PGC’s right-to-know officer denied our request for information on these wells, but we found them anyway and took our own photographs. Soon you will learn why the PGC does not want anyone to know the real story about their only 2 Marcellus producing wells. See these Game Lands 100 photos below.
The Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania supports responsible drilling on ALL public and private lands in the Commonwealth and our attached article gives valid reasons for doing so.
Dr. Dennis Wydra
Northeast Regional Director
Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania
570-672-7278