Wendy Lee, Author at Raging Chicken Media

Bring on the Hurricane. It Can’t Be Worse Than the Frack-Storm That’s Already Laying Us to Siege

October 28, 2012 2

On October 10th of 2011, in response to the tremendous destruction of Hurricane Lee for my town, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding townships, I wrote a short piece titled ” Fracking, Floods, and Fools” (Fracking, […]

Buried Beneath some Shrubs and Grass and Wildflowers is Nothing but Frack-Tastrophe: Compressor Station Construction, Janet Hock Road, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, 10.13.12

October 14, 2012 28

It’s difficult to capture the sense of palpable anxiety I felt taking these sets of photographs. This is the Janet Hock Road compressor construction site in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania that I have been documenting for […]

The Industrialization of PASSHE: Where the Public Good, its Students, and its Faculty are Auctioned Off to the Extraction Profiteers (Or: Extortion by Extraction)

October 7, 2012 11

1. Pennsylvania Senate Bill 367 and Chancellor Cavanaugh’s Plan to Industrialize Higher Education Dory Hippauf’s “Welcome to PA Frack-U” offers an excellent profile of the Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 367: “an act providing for indigenous mineral […]

SHALE GAS OUTRAGE=STANDING UP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE=THE ENVIRONMENT IS HOME TO US ALL

September 19, 2012 1

I am not able to be at Shale Gas Outrage in person–though I’d give an ARM to be–but I have been offered an AWESOME opportunity of three beautiful minutes to talk about one of the […]

The Water and the Wine: Five Minutes to Speak to Pennsylvania’s Inergy-Soaked Frack-Tastrophe

September 3, 2012 14

In the effort to come to grips with the tsunami that is hydraulic fracturing, it’s multiplying associated industries, its immediate and future consequences, and the almost overwhelming sense of urgency that attends every new report of […]

“Stream Discharge, Drill Cuttings, Oil, Brine and/or Silt”: Response to Mike Knapp, MDS Energy Development (Or: best not to call me a junkie, Or, even better: A love affair: MDS, Snyder Brothers, and First Class Energy)

August 20, 2012 33

In the ongoing exchange between myself and the self-styled natural gas landman-maverick VP of Land and Public Relations, Mike Knapp—Snyder Bros/MDS Energy Services, I have sought to lay out in as thorough and objective a […]

Response to Mike Knapp: Best not to call me an “Elderly Hippy”

August 19, 2012 14

The following is an exchange included in a rather longish thread on Energy in Depth–a fracking propaganda website who sends its “field directors” to events such as the direct action shut-down of the Schlumberger Compound […]

You know you’ve got them worried when they can’t stop talking about you: Energy in Depth’s faux-reporting at Schlumberger, 8.11.12

August 15, 2012 21

Energy in Depth (EID) faux-reporters Rachael Colley and Joe Massaro really only have one teeny-tiny problem with respect to their reporting at the Schlumberger Direct Action, 8.11.12: only the most trivial aspects of their report […]

Response to Tom Shepstone, Paid Fracking Propagandist

August 7, 2012 2

[The letter below is a letter to the editor responding to an Op-Ed published in the Patriot news 8.3.12 by Energy In Depth’s Tom Shepstone. His original can be found here: http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2012/08/marcellus_drilling_benefits_wh.html] Dear Editor: What […]

In the Way of Aqua America? You Ain’t Nothing But Disposable

July 8, 2012 1

The attached set of pictures may not be the most exciting. Guards. Trucks. Chain link fences. Razor wire. A move of a mobile home. It doesn’t document a police raid. It’s not an occupy encampment. […]