{"id":35813,"date":"2018-07-08T08:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35813"},"modified":"2018-07-08T08:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:09:25","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35813","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE WORLD<\/a><\/h3>\n

A \u2018Reckless\u2019 Fracking Company, Poisoned Springs, and a Family Forced to Buy Water at Walmart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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DRIVING WEST ALONG<\/u> the Pennsylvania Turnpike from Harrisburg to rural Washington County, sign after sign pitted energy companies against environmentalists. An evil-looking clown leered down at passing drivers above the words: \u201cI still believe in global warming. Do you?\u201d Then there was another: \u201cWind dies. Sun sets. You need reliable, affordable, clean coal electricity.\u201d Yet another featured a picture of Yoko Ono and the message \u201cWould you take energy advice from the woman who broke up The Beatles?\u201d<\/p>\n

The billboards were the handiwork of a corporate lobbyist named Rick Berman. His campaign depicted anti-fracking activists, who often called themselves fractivists, as a bunch of rich outsiders. In his world, hypocrites like Robert Redford, who flew private, and kooks like Yoko Ono didn\u2019t understand the give-and-take long established in Appalachia between extractive industries and the communities that relied on them for their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

If you followed the highway far enough, turned off the exit for Lone Pine\/ Amity, then took a right past the truck stop, you\u2019d wend your way into a steep, unnamed valley. Loren \u201cBuzz\u201d Kiskadden lived at the base of that valley, in a spot known locally as the Bottoms, or Dogpatch. On its 26 acres, the Kiskadden family had run a junkyard from the mid-60s until 2006. An ex-car-thief and recovering heroin addict, Buzz had been the neighborhood bad boy, \u201calways driving around on something,\u201d he told me later.<\/p>\n

Buzz was clean now, but chain-smoking cigarettes. He and his brothers were known to drive their junkyard\u2019s tow trucks around the town of Washington, the county seat, removing any breakdowns left on the roadside. Instead of repairing them, they stripped them for parts.<\/p>\n

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THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE WORLD A \u2018Reckless\u2019 Fracking Company, Poisoned Springs, and a Family Forced to Buy Water at Walmart DRIVING WEST ALONG the Pennsylvania Turnpike from Harrisburg to rural Washington County, sign after sign pitted energy companies against environmentalists. An evil-looking clown leered down at passing drivers above the words: \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20827,20828,331,2081,619,20826,5567,1005],"class_list":["post-35813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-corporate-lobbying","tag-eliza-grizwold","tag-fracking","tag-marketing","tag-pennsylvania","tag-poisoned-water","tag-the-intercept","tag-wastewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35814,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35813\/revisions\/35814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}