Fight the gas companies
Our farm was in a quiet country setting for 18 years. In 2013, EQT Corp. started drilling gas wells all around us. I, like many residents, did not own my mineral rights, so we did not have the money to move away from all the dust, noise and pollution. We complained at the supervisors’ meeting in Washington Township, which is nearby, but we were shunned and ignored.
Our roads were never constructed for such heavy and overloaded trucks, and the repairs have been nothing more than a Band-Aid. We constantly complain about noise from engine brakes from caravans of trucks. The noise is so bad it rattles the windows in our house. Because of this, I now use medication to sleep.
This insanity has to end. But everyone we’ve contacted on the township, county and state levels tells us there is nothing they can do.
If any of these companies try to come into your communities, fight them with everything you have. Once they are there, your quiet, pristine community will be destroyed.
Robert L. Thomas
West Bethlehem