Pennsylvania Fracking
Jul. 16th, 2025 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraI started sleeping again. Monday night I actually slept 10 hours!
I have been tromping and going to the gym. Some days, both.
Flavia sez she ❤️LUV❤️s the idea of doing Brianpalooza at the Middletown tea house, so you know, good. Brianpalooza must have Flavia's blessing.
Apart from tromping, I have been pretty much a lazy slob. The Patrizia-torium looks like Atilla has been quartering some time-tripping Huns here.
And I haven't done anything in the way of serious revenue generation in about a week.
Instead, I have been watching an awful Lena Dunham show all about her breakup with Jack Antonoff and her hasty rebound marriage. And reading a book called Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh, which is all about the intergenerational effects of fracking on a small town in southcentral Pennsylvania. It's very well written! And manages to connect coal mining, fracking, and Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania's three big dalliances with environmental disaster.
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Environmental disasters fascinate me. I once wheedled Brian into doing a short road trip to Carbon County, Pennsylvania just so that I could see the culm banks, black mountains of anthracite coal waste, with my own eyes:
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania didn't do so good with fracking. Twenty years after the first wells were driven into the Marcellus shale, job creation has been just about nil, the water table is polluted, and residents wander around like characters in an H.P. Lovecraft story, complaining of nausea, headaches, nosebleeds, livestock that drop dead suddenly with no reason. Asthma is up; birth weights are down.
Somebody is clearly making money. Doubt it's the landowners, though.
I have been tromping and going to the gym. Some days, both.
Flavia sez she ❤️LUV❤️s the idea of doing Brianpalooza at the Middletown tea house, so you know, good. Brianpalooza must have Flavia's blessing.
Apart from tromping, I have been pretty much a lazy slob. The Patrizia-torium looks like Atilla has been quartering some time-tripping Huns here.
And I haven't done anything in the way of serious revenue generation in about a week.
Instead, I have been watching an awful Lena Dunham show all about her breakup with Jack Antonoff and her hasty rebound marriage. And reading a book called Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh, which is all about the intergenerational effects of fracking on a small town in southcentral Pennsylvania. It's very well written! And manages to connect coal mining, fracking, and Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania's three big dalliances with environmental disaster.
###
Environmental disasters fascinate me. I once wheedled Brian into doing a short road trip to Carbon County, Pennsylvania just so that I could see the culm banks, black mountains of anthracite coal waste, with my own eyes:
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania didn't do so good with fracking. Twenty years after the first wells were driven into the Marcellus shale, job creation has been just about nil, the water table is polluted, and residents wander around like characters in an H.P. Lovecraft story, complaining of nausea, headaches, nosebleeds, livestock that drop dead suddenly with no reason. Asthma is up; birth weights are down.
Somebody is clearly making money. Doubt it's the landowners, though.
