Front line or End of the line?

Wheatfield is, again, in the front lines of the war against fracking.  The Town Board on Monday (January 4, 2015) enacted a moratorium on the storage of fracking fluid (used?) and fracking brine on their roads.  (Victory!)

And I like the attitude of Town Attorney Matthew E Brooks said "No, and we don't want any either" in regards to the question on if Wheatfield was using fracking brine on its roads.

Fracking brine is used because of its salinity. Let's remember - this is salt.  It damages roads and eats up cars.  (Think rust.)  Fracking brine has salt (of some sort) and who knows what chemicals in it.  So our cars and roads are being destroyed even faster.

The public has been valiantly fighting against the use of fracking waste and against National Fuel's fracked gas pipeline and is doing everything it can to stop the pipeline and the use of the contaminates that it creates.

National Fuel is doing everything it can to control the discussion on the matter.  An upcoming meeting on Wednesday January 13th (hopefully it will be worse than a Friday for NF) is being strictly controlled by National Fuel.  Pre-registration is required by e-mail (seriously?) with the person's name and address.  I'm sure National Fuel is going to use this to limit who can enter the hall.  We still have a First Amendment right to protest outside the meeting though.

National Fuel wants to build a dehydrator station in Wheatfield that will remove the chemically contaminated water from the fracked gas.  The question is: Where are they going to store this water?  No one has been able to successfully clean it.  The "cleaned" water that I have seen is cloudy and looks like thinned out milk.  They claim that 99% of the hydrocarbons in the fracked water will be destroyed.

Councilman Larry Helwig has the right question: "What's in the 1%?"  No one wants to answer that question.

I, and so many others, say "Nothing to fear, nothing to hide."

Then again, we could hold their feet to the fire and find out.

Pennsylvania has flares from the fracking wells.  We could use those.

We demand one thing - The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
And, yes, we an handle it.

Can National Fuel?