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Gas Drilling
Awareness Coalition

General Meeting

Tuesday September 20th
at 7 pm


Topic: the Atlantic Sunrise & PennEast Pipelines threatening EMINENT DOMAIN.

Dallas American Legion
730 Memorial Hwy
Dallas, PA 18612

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Dallas, PA - March 3rd, 2016

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GDAC presents the film "Groundswell Rising"
Tuesday March 15th, at 7pm


Click to see the Movie Trailer

Dallas American Legion
730 Memorial Hwy ( Rt 415 - across from Leggios )
Dallas 18612.

This film is a transcendent tale of epic proportions where ordinary people are making a choice to stand up and protect their communities and childrens future.

Emmy Award-winning Resolution Pictures captures the passion and courage of people engaged in a David and Goliath confrontation. They stand together, challenging a system that promotes profit over health.

We meet mothers, fathers, scientists, doctors, farmers and people from all sides of the political spectrum taking a hard stand against energy extraction techniques not proven to be safe. With the oil and gas industrys thrust to expand fracking seen as a moral and civil rights issue, this provocative film documents a peoples movement, a groundswell rising.

Marl Lichty the film's executive producer will be available for any discussion or questions.

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Dallas, PA - February 11th, 2016

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PennEast Natural Gas Pipeline & "Eminent Domain"
Special Presentation by Attorney Steven Richardson
of noted Washington DC Law Firm,"Wiley Rein LLP"

On Tuesday February 16th - at 4pm

Dear Concerned Property Owners,

If you are in the targeted route of the PennEast Gas Pipeline, it is recommended you attend our informational presentation by Attorney Steven Richardson of Wiley Rein LLP, a noted large Washington DC law firm.

In New Jersey, "Homeowners Against Land Taking" (HALT-PennEast) has retained this law firm to provide strategic & legal representation regarding intervention in & opposition to the PennEast Natural Gas Pipeline project & its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) & especially for a certificate of "necessity & convenience," also known as "Eminent Domain."

Atty. Richardson cites the firms decades of direct experience in FERC proceedings, including siting natural gas pipelines & associated Facilities, to assist landowners opposed to them for private profits, not public utility.

This firm cites its experience with FERC for hundreds of intervening landowners & parties dealing with the environmental, economic, & scientific controversies, by providing a broad portfolio of knowledge for all legal, policy, & political aspects of these issues- specifically the "Section 7 process" FERC uses to analyze, consider & determine whether to issue Eminent Domain permits for Natural Gas Pipelines.

Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition
will host Atty. Richardson

Tuesday February 16th, at 7pm
Dallas American Legion
730 Memorial Hwy ( Rt 415 - across from Leggios )
Dallas 18612.

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Dallas, PA - February 7th, 2016

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Reject PennEast Pipeline-
"Tear up their Lease offers"
Rally - Press Conference
Friday February 12th - 4pm
252 Manor Dr, Shavertown, PA 18644

Please join Concerned Citizens Against the PennEast Pipeline for the Tearing of the Offers on February 12th at 4:00 PM at 252 Manor Dr, Shavertown, PA. This is the kickoff of a series of four events to be held up and down the length of the proposed PennEast Pipeline to demonstrate to PennEast LLC and UGI Corporation that their project is unneeded, unwanted, and that their easement offers are unacceptable. In growing numbers landowners have been voicing their resolve against the threat of eminent domain and their opposition to this unnecessary project. Continued efforts by PennEast to try to intimidate landowners into agreements- have been unwavering. In a fight for their lands and their lives, property owners will be tearing up their easement offers -to make it clear to PennEast- that there is No Deal.

Opponents up and down the length of the route who have refused PennEasts unacceptable easement offers would be forced into eminent domain proceedings if the project were to receive the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions (FERC) approval. Mary Leeds, will be kicking off the event with a statement about local opposite to the taking of land by PennEast using eminent domain and the many landowner groups who are forming coalitions and retaining legal representation, to prepare for the long battle against PennEast.

Leeds says, A Kentucky appeals court has upheld a ruling that prevents the developers of the Bluegrass Pipeline in Kentucky from using the power of eminent domain to force property owners to sell their property. It would follow along that legal precedent, that if the PennEast Pipeline is not a Pennsylvania public utility and if the natural gas it proposes to transport through the pipeline in Pennsylvania does not serve the energy needs of Pennsylvanians, Penn East cannot be considered a public utility in Pennsylvania. It doesnt pass muster with our US Constitution or even our Pennsylvania Constitution, to throw out the rule of law in favor of the interests of a for-profit corporation, who happens to transport fuel that produces energy.

For Information Contact Organizer
Mary Leeds -

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Dallas, PA - November 10th, 2015

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Dallas, PA - August 14th, 2015

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Marcellus Shale Reality Tour heads to Dallas (PA)

Published: August 14, 2015 in the Citizens Voice newspaper

http://citizensvoice.com/news/marcellus-shale-reality-tour-heads-to-dallas-1.1926690


"The Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition will hold the latest in its Marcellus Shale Reality Tour series with a screening of a new 20-minute video, Atlantic Sunrise Surprise at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19 at the American Legion post in Dallas, 730 Memorial Highway (state Route 415).

The 20-minute video shows the struggle of two women in dealing with a pipeline company that wants to use eminent domain to build a natural gas compressor station 500 feet from the farmers family home, and a pipeline that will go through both the home and the business of a horse veterinarian, shutting her business down for a year and a half.

The women in the film, Carol Mohr and Dr. Linda Quodomine, will be on hand to answer questions. Elected officials from all Luzerne County communities affected by the pipelines have also been invited."

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Dallas, PA - August 14th, 2015

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Dallas, PA - January 21st, 2015

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Statement Presented by GDAC VP Diane Dreier
for PA Homeland Security Law Suit Settlement
Click for video of GDAC Press Conference, Luzerne Courthouse

About 5 years ago, a handful of citizens from the Back Mountain area of northeastern Pennsylvania became concerned about unconventional gas wells that were scheduled to be drilled in their communities. Gas industry representatives were holding informational meetings for elected officials and residents in affected municipalities. Many residents came away from those meetings with grave concerns about the effects of unconventional gas drilling on the environment and on public health.

Those concerned citizens formed the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, known as GDAC, whose mission is to educate the public about the negative environmental consequences of natural gas extraction, processing and transportation. GDAC, at all times, conducted itself in a lawful and peaceful manner, with members using their First Amendment Rights to provide educational information to the public.

Thats why it was so surprising to learn, that in 2010, GDAC was mentioned in several intelligence bulletins issued by the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, an Israeli-American Security Firm, under contract to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agencys Office of Homeland Security.

As Philly.Com reported on 09/22/10: The bulletins came to light after Powers (former Director of Pennsylvania Homeland Security) mistakenly sent a woman opposed to natural gas drilling an e-mail that said he wanted to "continue providing support to the Marcellus Shale Formation natural gas stakeholders while not feeding those groups fomenting dissent" against drillers.

According to a report in Penn Live on November 7, 2010, Regular readers of the bulletins could easily begin to view activists as a threat. The bulletins freely mixed references to actual terrorist activity abroad with warnings about the non-violent, lawful activities of Pennsylvania citizens.
Then Governor Rendell apologized to the groups that were mentioned in the bulletins, saying that he was deeply embarrassed, and canceled the state contract with the Institute. According to published reports at the time, Rendell said that the information was useless to law enforcement agencies and that distributing it was tantamount to trampling on constitutional rights.

We agree with former Governor Rendell that this conduct by the Pennsylvania State Government was tantamount to trampling on our constitutional rights. We believe that collecting and disseminating information about groups that are engaged in lawful activities, and especially labeling those groups as potential terrorists, can and does have a chilling effect upon the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution that we all hold so sacred.

That is the reason that the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition decided to file this lawsuit in December of 2011.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dallas, PA - November 7th 2014

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