(PA HomeSec) tracks anti-Marcellus Shale drilling groups, notifies law enforcement

[phantom power]

According to recently leaked documents, the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has been tracking anti-gas drilling groups and their meetings — including a public screening of the film “Gasland,” a documentary about the environmental hazards of natural gas drilling. The office has included the information in its weekly intelligence bulletins sent to law enforcement agencies.

The bulletins are also sent to gas companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale.

Activists and environmental groups have responded with outrage and some alarm.

“There’s something dead-fishy here. ... Something is rotten,” activist Gene Stilp said. He has called for a formal House and Senate inquiry into the activities of the Homeland Security office.

State Homeland Security Director James Powers explained that he has been including anti-gas drilling activist information in his tri-weekly intelligence briefings for about a month because there have been “five to 10” incidents of vandalism around the state related to the natural gas industry, which is one of the sectors he is charged with monitoring.

One of those incidents, he said, involved someone shooting a natural gas container tank with a shotgun in Venango County.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/09/post_122.html

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1. K&R

For shooting a natural gas container with a shotgun.

[BanzaiBonnie]

2. And they REALLY believe it is some organized effort?

Not just stupid people vandalizing private property?

I call bullshit on this effort.

[DCKit]

3. Watch "Gasland" and you'll understand why the gas co.s may think they need protection.

Fracking isn't good for people.