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.
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