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Peter Burgess

Fracked Gas Pipeline Tours - See Impacts First-Hand

Join concerned citizens for a fracked gas pipeline tour being offered two days - October 28th or 29th - to witness first hand the long-term damage of Tennessee Gas Pipeline's 300 line project. TGP is now proposing to continue this damage with its proposed Northeast Upgrade Project (NEUP) that could begin this fall and winter and impact the Delaware Basin and the Delaware River. The NEUP is proposed to cut across the Delaware River into High Point State Park and into New Jersey lands - other loops are planned for Bradford Co and the Monksville Reservoir in New Jersey. Fifty percent of this project is proposed to cut through public lands. Countless steep slopes, wetlands, old-growth forests, and special protection streams are at risk if this pipeline loop is allowed to move forward. Come out with us and bring neighbors and community leaders to witness this harmful fracked gas infrastructure project and learn about other pipeline projects that could cut through the Delaware Basin if the drillers and pipeline companies continue to expand dirty Marcellus shale gas drilling.

These tours are being organized by Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, Twin and Walker Creeks Watershed Conservancy, Pennsylvania Sierra Club, New Jersey Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, 350 NJ, and other concerned groups in the region. Come out Sunday or Monday to join us on the tour.

Dress for the weather and wear comfortable hiking shoes. More details will be shared for those who register as the date gets closer.

Register Now!

Sunday October 28, 2012 OR Monday October 29, 2012 from 10:00 AM to Noon

Where ... Meet up at Pike County Park off Schocopee Road located 4 miles West of Milford, PA off Rte 6 (Pike County).

To get directions from park website, click here:

http://www.discoverpikepa.com/places/Things_To_Do/National_State_Local_Parks/Pike_County_Park_Trails

GPS Coordinates to vicinity of Pike County Park:

41.35613, -74.85088

Or, use 291 Schocopee Road, Milford PA 18337 to get near the vicinity of the park grounds. Look for a large white painted sign that says Pike County Park and follow to the parking lot. Below written directions from the park website:

PIKE COUNTY PARK, off Schocopee Road, Milford PA

Four miles west of Milford, Pike County Park is reached by turning right on Route 6W at the top of the S-curve hill above the town. This is Schocopee Road (see sign for Black Walnut Inn). After a short distance, you pass under I-84; take the next left turn. This continues Schocopee Road (Woodtown Road on Delaware State Forest public use maps). 2.5 miles ahead, a left fork takes you to the Park and the parking area on the left. Lily Pond is off to your right and the Raptor Center is on the left below the dam. (There are five trails here to enjoy and a connector to a deeper hike into the Delaware State Forest (#9, 10, 11))

Contact Faith Zerbe Delaware Riverkeeper Network faith@delawareriverkeeper.org 215-369-1188 x 110 When TWO DATES TO CHOOSE FROM.