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Related: About this forumOil and Gas Company Targets Prominent Activist
EarthworksThe following is a statement by Gwen Lachelt, director, Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project:
After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stepped in when the state of Texas failed to address a water well contamination incident involving Range Resources, the company responded by suing the very landowner whose water was polluted. And Range didnt stop there. It cast a wide net in a twisted attempt to show that the landowner was defaming Ranges reputation. They even forced our employee, the popular blogger and well-known oil and gas activist, Sharon Wilson (aka TX Sharon), to appear in court last week.
Range is accusing Sharon of conspiring with the landowner to commit defamation. Range demanded that Sharon divulge personal financial information, all correspondence mentioning the landowner, the EPA, the scientist that conducted the water quality tests, and even the word Range, dating back to 2005.
In her blog, Texas Sharon reports daily on oil and gas impacts in Texas, as well as across the country and the world. Sharon works every day to assist people whose lives have been affected by drilling and fracking and to reform oil and gas policies and practices. When the Range story hit the Texas television station WFAA in December 2010, Sharon got busy. She posted a home video she received in an email about the landowners water contamination. She wrote about the case and related issues using publicly available information such as EPA documents, media reports and court transcripts. She expressed her opinion.
Range Resources tactics appear to be designed to send a warning to landowners, other bloggers, journalists and advocates that if they document contamination with home videos or photos, write about oil and gas impacts, or ask questions, that they too will be hauled into court.
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Oil and Gas Company Targets Prominent Activist (Original Post)
Kolesar
May 2012
OP
This is so discouraging and disgusting I don't know what to say. Earth does not have a chance.
northoftheborder
May 2012
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kristopher
(29,798 posts)1. Sounds like part of the strategy detailed in this plan
wordsearch "sue"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112714465#post12
northoftheborder
(7,575 posts)2. This is so discouraging and disgusting I don't know what to say. Earth does not have a chance.
All who live on this planet are doomed.