Saturday, March 3

“I Just Want Water”: Demonstrators Confront Rex Energy in Butler County: Pennsylvania


Janet McIntyre addresses crowd. She recounts watching "a grown man cry" as his water buffalo was taken away. Recalling how water buffaloes were dumped, she could barely speak for a few moments. Photo: Stephen Cleghorn.

“The cruelty of [Rex Energy in] removing what little water the residents had left was just too much for her [Janet McIntyre]…” reported one participant in yesterday’s demonstration confronting Rex Energy in the western Pennsylvania town of Butler.
McIntyre, who spoke to the crowd of 75 demonstrators, has been living with contaminated water in her Conoquenessing Township home since January 2011. She witnessed workers pouring hundreds of gallons of her neighbor’s water onto the ground on Wednesday, under orders from Rex. Rex removed the McIntyre family’s replacement water tank in January 2012. Since then her family hoards bottled water and travels elsewhere to shower, an expense they can ill afford.
“I just want water,” Sheri Makepeace, also of Conoquenessing, says in this televised interview, explaining that she’d like to be able to cook buttered noodles for her three children.


Protecting Our Water

Editor's Note:  This is a follow up story from yesterday (you know the picture of the brown water in the bucket?).

Not only has this company poisoned the residents water, and SUPPOSEDLY made good by supplying water to them in small tanks, they have now decided to cease that water supply.

However, instead of at least allowing these families to finish off the tanks Rex Energy supplied, Rex Energy did an about face and sent their heavies in to tip the water out on to the ground, while grown men wept at the prospect of no water to their houses. 

Where are the authorities?  

Is this where Australia is heading?

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