Civil Disobedience at the SRBC Meeting Wilkes-Barre

Video by Scott Cannon Democracy breaks out at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meeting in Wilkes-Barre on December 15, 2011

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[ytqpwoeiru]

It would be nice to see some actual data supporting the claims of the people that are yelling in this video. A quick-look at the math indicates that the Susquehanna River Basin receives over 19 TRILLION gallons of water every year through precipitation. One thousand Marcellus Shale frac-jobs equals about 15 billion gallons of water or 0.08% of one year of rainfall in the basin.

Perhaps the protesters should break out their calculators before they try to break out "democracy".

[GADCLuzerneCounty]

@ytqpwoeiru Perhaps you should do some research on what happens to the water after the gas industry is done with it. That is where the problem lies, not in a percentage number.

[GADCLuzerneCounty]

@ytqpwoeiru Google fracking and earthquakes. There is not enough known about the correlation to be doing deep well injection.

[michigansucks23]

The SRBC should conduct their meetings when Wall Street is open... Then these people would have someplace else to "occupy"

[virtuallymyself]

they reconvened, but you couldn't hear it over the noise from the UNcivil DISobedient losers

[virtuallymyself]

@sam112ization

you should know better than to threaten me by using my real rather than screen name on the world wide web

remember homeland security is on to you

do you really think that drowning out the opposing view is democratic?

If so, I feel sorry for you because you are either stubbornly ignorant or too closed minded to look yourself in the mirror honestly

you lose

[sam112ization]

@sam112ization The SRBC were there to hear views from the public. That's what they got. Unfortunately, one constitutioal right all of you have in the Joint Landowners Coalition is the right to leave this country. You and your lawyer Scott Kurkowski.

[sam112ization]

@virtuallymyself what democracy doesn't look like SUSAN are people running around screaming about their constitutional rights and pushing people around. Yes, this is what democracy looks like.

[billhuston]

@1:01 you can clearly hear the chair say, "this meeting stands adjourned".

This matches what you can hear at 2m 22s in this video: v=oCzvtgIcxOA

[virtuallymyself]

THIS???? is what democracy looks like?

Not allowing anyone who holds a different point of view than your own be heard?

LOSERS!

[billhuston]

A forest is a river basin with water and trees.

A desert is a river basin without water and trees.

Deserts and Forests remain such because these basins *do not communicate*. So it may be true the amount of fresh water in a basin is essentially FINITE.

Hydrofracking may be pushing the forest Susquehanna River Basin (forest) towards a DESERT in several ways.

Google "impeach the SRBC". You will find my blog where I discuss this.

[billhuston]

@GADCLuzerneCounty There is an additional problem with many people do not see. The assumption the SRBC uses is that there is basically an infinite supply of water, and that as long as the daily flow rates are above a certain rate, everything is fine. This is a DYNAMIC model, and it is incomplete.

What I have been asking the SRBC for 6 months now is CUMULATIVE effects studies on what might happen if we remove 350B gal. from the basin over 10 years (projected).

[FolkPhotographer]

MIC CHECK! MIC CHECK! I Love It..This is what democracy looks like..