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Save the Dates:
Pittsburgh Earth Day at 50 on-line: April 19, https://www.eventbrite.com/o/pittsburgh-earth-day-2020-29557815443 & April 22, 2020 national Earth Day!
The next Reimagine the Turtle Creek Watershed and Airshed Communities Plus on-line gathering is on Monday, May 4, 2020. Denele Hughson from GROW Pittsburgh will be the featured speaker for the May 4th meeting of Reimagine the Turtle Creek Watershed and Airshed Communities Plus. Denele is an agricultural educator, the Director of Farm Education at Grow Pittsburgh and a resident of Turtle Creek. She will discuss how Grow Pittsburgh grew from a mere idea to a successful and influential nonprofit benefiting the greater Pittsburgh area; how they acquired funding and people-power; what obstacles they overcame; and valuable lessons that they learned for building a local non-profit.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Sunday, November 3, 2019
The Need to Grow, Vegan Expo, and Re-Imagine!
Happy November, and a December SAVE the DATE!
We hope to see you this week at the Monroeville Public Library 11/4/19, and at the Monroeville Convention Center, 11/9/19 as well. Mark your calendar for December 11, 2019 at the Braddock Carnegie Public Library too for our exciting Re-Imagining Turtle Creek Watershed and Airshed Communities Visioning session! Some details below with more to come. Stay tuned!
1) FREE: The Need to Grow documentary at the Monroeville Public Library:
Monday evening, November 4, 2019 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Monroeville Public Library including discussion following the film screening of The Need to Grow. Feel free to bring healthy whole food, plant based snacks to share:
FREE!
Save the Soil. Save the World: The Need To Grow documentary narrated & produced by Rosario Dawson. A film by Rob Herring & Ryan Wirick tomorrow evening, November 4 at the Monroeville Public Library starting at 6:30 pm.
The Need to Grow is an incredibly wonderful & uplifting documentary offering a view into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement. Join us!
The Need to Grow is an incredibly wonderful & uplifting documentary offering a view into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement. Join us!
2) The Pittsburgh Vegan Expo, Saturday, November 9, 2019, 10 am to 4 pm at the Monroeville Convention Center:
Food, products, wellness room, demonstrations, movies, speakers, vegan trick or treat for kids, gingerbread house competition, breakdance, beatboxer, bellydance, live music, DJ, Re-model gala (recycled dance fashion contest), Vegan Spirituality-Southwest PA, Re-Imagine! TCWAC+ and many, many, more tabling, and much more!
3) FREE: Inaugural Re-Imagine! Turtle Creek Watershed and Airshed Communities Plus, Re-Imagine! TCWAC+ Visioning Session at the Braddock Carnegie Public Library, 5 pm to 8:30 pm (with 3:00 to 5:00 pm session too), Facebook page & EventBrite Registration available soon with more details!
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
URGENT! Attend October 3 Citizen's Night and October 8 Council Meeting at 7:00 PM at the Monroeville Municipal Building
Happy Autumn!
Listen to Greta Thunberg's wise words at the recent United Nations Climate Summit and then get busy acting locally in Monroeville, PA in early October by contacting your councilperson to let him or her know your thoughts about two critical issues:
1) We must be sure Monroeville does NOT sell the Municipal pool property. This property is specifically for recreational use in perpetuity according to documents we've seen.
2) We must be sure Monroeville council votes to put in place a protective of the citizens oil and gas ordinance at the November, 2019 meeting after being advertised in October, 2019.
Locally, what is going on here in Monroeville, PA and how can you be involved? Read the articles recently published with links below. Both articles were published by Trib Total Media in September, 2019 in The Times Express by Dillon Carr.
Actions for Citizens:
Please contact your councilperson and let him or her to vote to take the pool sale off of the table. If you do not live in Monroeville, please call Mayor Nick Gresock and Municipal Manager Tim Little to let them know selling the pool property is not ok.
https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/monroeville-pool-up-for-sale-making-way-for-turnpike-commission-purchase/
Please call your councilperson and ask him or her to be sure the proposed oil and gas ordinance is advertised this coming month. Then ask that this updated protective of the citizens ordinance be voted in at the November, 2019 council meeting.
https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/monroeville-residents-propose-oil-and-gas-ordinance/
We must fill the council chamber on both Thursday, October 3 at 7:00 pm for Citizen's Night and Tuesday, October 8 at 7:00 pm, for the next council meeting. Please mark your calendars, and plan to speak up about two critically important issues:
Council plans to vote to sell the Monroeville Municipal pool property on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 unless citizens rise up to say NO WAY! Council has been claiming that the turnpike commission has asked for that property to use to widen the turnpike. We were told at a council meeting not too long ago by one of the councilpersons that the property would be taken by eminent domain. This simply is not true. We have not seen any documentation that states this. Some of the pool members found out that the turnpike does not plan to widen that portion of the road until nine years from now. We also have learned that:
1) The property on the other side of the turnpike from the pool is also owned by the Municipality of Monroeville. We have asked why there has not been discussion about the turnpike using that property to widen the road and to leave the pool property alone.
2) The property the municipal pool sits on was condemned in 1974 and given to the Municipality of Monroeville. This 10 + acre property was to be used only for recreational purposes according to the condemnation documentation. It is therefore illegal to sell this property and to use it for any purpose other than recreation.
3) What is the hurry by council to sell this pool property? We have been asking for four months who owns the gas and oil rights underneath that property. No complete answer has been provided yet. Mr. Wratcher, the municipal attorney for the Municipality of Monroeville was formerly employed by APEX, a gas extraction company that is working in this area in the fracking industry. Is this a conflict of interest? Why is it that Mr. Wratcher is not able to figure out an answer to this question of who owns these mineral rights in a timely fashion especially as a former gas industry employee?
4) Could it be that the municipality owns the gas rights under this property? Could it be that the gas industry is eyeing these gas rights for fracking infrastructure or for other types of gas lines? We know that a fracking well pad is proposed for 0.4 mile from this site just into Penn Township, Westmoreland County right next to both the pool and the Heritage bike and Walking Trail. This is unacceptable. If it is true about the gas rights being owned by the municipality of Monroeville, we need to be sure that those rights are never used for fracking infrastructure such as pipelines and /or compressor stations, or any other fracked gas or other extractive industry infrastructure. Why? This property is for the use of Monroeville citizens for recreational use. Gas infrastructure does not belong underneath. In addition, this infrastructure does not belong near schools, homes, religious institutions, or businesses in our town.
Think Globally and Act Locally: Get involved in local Monroeville politics for a clean air and water and just future for all,
With gratitude,
David Mintz, Lois Drumheller, Madeline Havrilla, and Elisa Beck for Sustainable Monroeville
Sustainable Monroeville on Facebook!
Listen to Greta Thunberg's wise words at the recent United Nations Climate Summit and then get busy acting locally in Monroeville, PA in early October by contacting your councilperson to let him or her know your thoughts about two critical issues:
1) We must be sure Monroeville does NOT sell the Municipal pool property. This property is specifically for recreational use in perpetuity according to documents we've seen.
2) We must be sure Monroeville council votes to put in place a protective of the citizens oil and gas ordinance at the November, 2019 meeting after being advertised in October, 2019.
Locally, what is going on here in Monroeville, PA and how can you be involved? Read the articles recently published with links below. Both articles were published by Trib Total Media in September, 2019 in The Times Express by Dillon Carr.
Actions for Citizens:
Please contact your councilperson and let him or her to vote to take the pool sale off of the table. If you do not live in Monroeville, please call Mayor Nick Gresock and Municipal Manager Tim Little to let them know selling the pool property is not ok.
https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/monroeville-pool-up-for-sale-making-way-for-turnpike-commission-purchase/
Please call your councilperson and ask him or her to be sure the proposed oil and gas ordinance is advertised this coming month. Then ask that this updated protective of the citizens ordinance be voted in at the November, 2019 council meeting.
https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/monroeville-residents-propose-oil-and-gas-ordinance/
We must fill the council chamber on both Thursday, October 3 at 7:00 pm for Citizen's Night and Tuesday, October 8 at 7:00 pm, for the next council meeting. Please mark your calendars, and plan to speak up about two critically important issues:
Council plans to vote to sell the Monroeville Municipal pool property on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 unless citizens rise up to say NO WAY! Council has been claiming that the turnpike commission has asked for that property to use to widen the turnpike. We were told at a council meeting not too long ago by one of the councilpersons that the property would be taken by eminent domain. This simply is not true. We have not seen any documentation that states this. Some of the pool members found out that the turnpike does not plan to widen that portion of the road until nine years from now. We also have learned that:
1) The property on the other side of the turnpike from the pool is also owned by the Municipality of Monroeville. We have asked why there has not been discussion about the turnpike using that property to widen the road and to leave the pool property alone.
2) The property the municipal pool sits on was condemned in 1974 and given to the Municipality of Monroeville. This 10 + acre property was to be used only for recreational purposes according to the condemnation documentation. It is therefore illegal to sell this property and to use it for any purpose other than recreation.
3) What is the hurry by council to sell this pool property? We have been asking for four months who owns the gas and oil rights underneath that property. No complete answer has been provided yet. Mr. Wratcher, the municipal attorney for the Municipality of Monroeville was formerly employed by APEX, a gas extraction company that is working in this area in the fracking industry. Is this a conflict of interest? Why is it that Mr. Wratcher is not able to figure out an answer to this question of who owns these mineral rights in a timely fashion especially as a former gas industry employee?
4) Could it be that the municipality owns the gas rights under this property? Could it be that the gas industry is eyeing these gas rights for fracking infrastructure or for other types of gas lines? We know that a fracking well pad is proposed for 0.4 mile from this site just into Penn Township, Westmoreland County right next to both the pool and the Heritage bike and Walking Trail. This is unacceptable. If it is true about the gas rights being owned by the municipality of Monroeville, we need to be sure that those rights are never used for fracking infrastructure such as pipelines and /or compressor stations, or any other fracked gas or other extractive industry infrastructure. Why? This property is for the use of Monroeville citizens for recreational use. Gas infrastructure does not belong underneath. In addition, this infrastructure does not belong near schools, homes, religious institutions, or businesses in our town.
Think Globally and Act Locally: Get involved in local Monroeville politics for a clean air and water and just future for all,
With gratitude,
David Mintz, Lois Drumheller, Madeline Havrilla, and Elisa Beck for Sustainable Monroeville
Sustainable Monroeville on Facebook!
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Join us on July 27 at Monroeville Park for Monroeville CommUNITY Day!
Sustainable Monroeville looks forward to showcasing our work from the past 10 years in the Municipality of Monroeville and beyond at the upcoming Monroeville CommUNITY Day on Saturday, July 27, 2019 from 11:00 am to 4:00 PM. If you'd love to volunteer on the 27th of July or at any time, feel free to reach out to us through the Sustainable Monroeville Facebook page or through sustainablemonroeville@gmail.com.
Stop by our booth to learn about our most recent projects and to see how you can get involved!
Stop by our booth to learn about our most recent projects and to see how you can get involved!
Monday, December 31, 2018
Sustainable Monroeville on January 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM at the MPL and more!
Hello and Happy New Year!
Mark your calendar for the next meeting of Sustainable Monroeville on Monday evening, January 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM at the Monroeville Public Library. We'll hear Sudha Krishnasamy speak about her company that makes plates from plants! From Sudha Krishnasamy:
As usual during the meeting on Monday January 21, 2019 at 7:00 PM at the MPL, we'll introduce ourselves at the start of the meeting and talk briefly about what we've done since the last meeting that has to do with our regenerative future. We'll save a few minutes at the end of the meeting to commit to any action at all, large or small. Sign a petition perhaps? Commit to making some phone calls for Clean Air? See some details below. Keep reading!
Title: Leafware products eco friendly alternative
Sudha Krishnasamy, Chief Executive Officer, Leaf2Go LLC https://www.leaf2gollc.com
About Leaf2go:
Leaf2Go products are elegant and designed by nature, made of fallen palm leaves, sturdy, hold hot and cold liquids well, and can be easily composted in a garden or standard compost bin, unlike typical compostable products.
Leaf2go is a locally-owned, socially and environmentally responsible small business. Leaf2Go gives part of its proceeds to charities and is a proud partner of Life's Work of Western PA!
Leaf2go is a proud winner of 2017 Zerowaste award by Pennsylvania Resources Council (http://prc.org/
Leaf2go is a locally-owned, socially and environmentally responsible small business. Leaf2Go gives part of its proceeds to charities and is a proud partner of Life's Work of Western PA!
Leaf2go is a proud winner of 2017 Zerowaste award by Pennsylvania Resources Council (http://prc.org/
) and 2018 Silver award by Sustainable Pittsburgh(.http://c4spgh.org/
Together we can save our planet!
About Sudha Krishnasamy:
Sudha Krishnasamy:
Sudha is a Program management and Software professional with about 25 years of experience. Sudha is the founder and chief Executive Officer of Leaf2go LLC.
Sudha recently graduated from MBA, Duquesne University and has Master of Engineering from Anna University.
She is passionate about social and Environmental sustainability to save the planet using sustainable products eliminating plastic and foam to give back to underprivileged children and adults of Pittsburgh and India. She has partnered with Schools in India and organizations in Pittsburgh to donate part of sales from Leaf2go LLC.
Sudha is a Program management and Software professional with about 25 years of experience. Sudha is the founder and chief Executive Officer of Leaf2go LLC.
Sudha recently graduated from MBA, Duquesne University and has Master of Engineering from Anna University.
She is passionate about social and Environmental sustainability to save the planet using sustainable products eliminating plastic and foam to give back to underprivileged children and adults of Pittsburgh and India. She has partnered with Schools in India and organizations in Pittsburgh to donate part of sales from Leaf2go LLC.
As usual during the meeting on Monday January 21, 2019 at 7:00 PM at the MPL, we'll introduce ourselves at the start of the meeting and talk briefly about what we've done since the last meeting that has to do with our regenerative future. We'll save a few minutes at the end of the meeting to commit to any action at all, large or small. Sign a petition perhaps? Commit to making some phone calls for Clean Air? See some details below. Keep reading!
We've become aware that part of one of the newly proposed developments in Monroeville will be built on top of an abandoned coal mine. Is this ok with you? We've become aware that hydraulic fracturing waste has been dumped in the Monroeville land fill and other Waste Management land fills, including the Valley land fill in Penn Township since 2009. We learn about a lot of news that has not been shared widely in the mainstream media or not shared at all.
How will you get involved to speak out about issues that concern you this year? Will you call the office of Mr. Fitzpatrick and express your concern? Will you contact your councilperson? Will you facilitate other actions around this Western PA region? Everyone is needed to do their part! Here's an idea for you:
Dave Smith of the Clean Air Council is facilitating a Health Survey in Clairton, PA. Dave wrote to Sustainable Monroeville to ask members of the group to make calls "as there are close to 6,000." Dave "...will set up some conference calls to brief folks and then we can send out list for folks to make calls. Those assisting can make calls from home over a given period of a week so you can make calls when you have time to do so."
He is "looking at setting up conference calls to train volunteers the week of January 6th and calls will be made the week of January 13th. Contact Mr. Dave Smith directly if you are able to assist by making calls: Dave Smith, B. David Smith (he/him)"
Outreach Coordinator SWPA
Clean Air Council | 200 First Avenue, Suite 200 | Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412.954.8494 | @
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What more can we do?
Check out the #noplasticsplease campaign. Begin by NOT using singe use plastics. As we the people take responsibility for our own actions, there will be no need for plastics and hence no need for the petrochemical plant Royal Dutch Shell is in the process of constructing 30 miles north of Pittsburgh and in the same airshed as most of SWPA. Then stop using all plastics. The recently passed farm bill legalizes the growing of industrial hemp. Yippee! Industrial hemp will replace plastic. This CAN be done immediately.
Sign the petition regarding Article 1 Section 27 of the PA constitution that guarantees citizens of the state of PA clean air and fresh water: Go to the Better Path Coalition on-line to sign or sign the paper petition we'll have at the meeting at the MPL on January 7. Travel to Harrisburg at the end of January, 2019 to take this message to the Governor of PA!
Why eat food that is vegan and organic? https://newspunch.
May we all be blessed by standing up for our amazingly beautiful and Regenerative, beyond Sustainable future NOW!
Thank you,
Elisa Beck :)
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Holiday Party and You are INvited! Organic, vegan raw pot luck 6:30 PM & Speaker on Veganism and our Regenerative Future NOW at 7:30 PM!
Holiday Party and You are INvited!
Organic, vegan raw pot luck 6:30 PM on Monday evening, December 3, 2018 &
Dr. Elisa Beck speaking on:
Veganism and our Regenerative Future NOW at 7:30 PM!
Please join us for the mostly RAW Vegan Party of the Year! Sustainable Monroeville meets at the Monroeville Public Library in the downstairs program room the first Monday of every month, so this fabulous event will be on Monday evening, December 3, 2018 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. We'll light Hanukah candles for the second night of Hanukah (no worries if you do not celebrate Hanukah), eat amazing food & hear some great information about the importance of all of us on this spaceship Earth eating as low on the food chain as possible to save our inner ecosystems and our selves on this precious plant.This event is free and open to the public, so please feel free to share widely!
At the event, there will be a VERY exciting announcement about the upcoming inaugural meeting of a new group in the Pittsburgh region! What kind of group you might be wondering? Come on out on Monday, December 3, 2018 and you'll find out!
There is a FACEBOOK event for this party and talk at the Sustainable Monroeville Facebook page!
Friday, November 9, 2018
Hydraulic Fracturing Waste, and Fracking in and around Monroeville, PA. You Tube Link to Citizen's Night Presentation 11/8/18
Here's the You Tube link to new news regarding hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking- related issues in Monroeville's Thomas Street Waste Management land fill and around Monroeville, PA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSSWycOplI#action=share
If you'd like a copy of the map pictured in the presentation linked here, contact Mr. Tim Little, Municipal Manager of Monroeville. Mr. Little created the map based on neighboring communities and/or companies contacting Monroeville regarding upcoming and current unconventional deep gas well, aka fracking, development.
Google League of Women Voters and Shale and Public Health Conference to register for this FREE conference on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 from 9:00 am to 5:00 PM at the University Club on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Lunch is provided at the cost of $14.00, but the conference is FREE!
Check out Sustainable Monroeville on Facebook.
Blessings and Peace y'all!
If you'd like a copy of the map pictured in the presentation linked here, contact Mr. Tim Little, Municipal Manager of Monroeville. Mr. Little created the map based on neighboring communities and/or companies contacting Monroeville regarding upcoming and current unconventional deep gas well, aka fracking, development.
Google League of Women Voters and Shale and Public Health Conference to register for this FREE conference on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 from 9:00 am to 5:00 PM at the University Club on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Lunch is provided at the cost of $14.00, but the conference is FREE!
Check out Sustainable Monroeville on Facebook.
Blessings and Peace y'all!
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Preserve Monroeville's Home Rule Charter. Vote NO on all five ballot questions and One More thing!
Hello, and Happy November,
Preserve Monroeville's Home Rule Charter.
Vote NO on all five ballot questions on Tuesday, November 6. 2018! Why?
Our understanding is that there has been a committee in Monroeville working on the Home Rule Charter. For now, Sustainable Monroeville endorses leaving the Home Rule Charter intact so the citizens of Monroeville are able to stand up for protecting its citizens.
From Lois Drumheller: "The bottom line is this... If we don't pay attention to the subtle changes in local government, it won't be easy to locally get the government we want - especially when it comes to public input, fair elections... you know what I mean. So.... anyone to comment at this point? Thanks for listening. I intend to show the ballot questions, and compare/contrast them with the current HRC.
One more thing y'all:
Subject: Uphold PA's Environmental Rights Amendment & Act on Climate
Hi,
I signed a petition to Gubernatorial and Legislative Winners of 2018 PA Midterm Election.
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/uphold-pas-environmental-1?source=s.em.cp&r_hash=JDTRJIEU
Thanks!
Like Sustainable Monroeville on Facebook!
Preserve Monroeville's Home Rule Charter.
Vote NO on all five ballot questions on Tuesday, November 6. 2018! Why?
Our understanding is that there has been a committee in Monroeville working on the Home Rule Charter. For now, Sustainable Monroeville endorses leaving the Home Rule Charter intact so the citizens of Monroeville are able to stand up for protecting its citizens.
Join us tomorrow evening, Monday, November 5, 2018 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at the Monroeville Public Library in the downstairs program room to discuss what's written below and to get an update on what's going on with fracking IN and AROUND Monroeville, PA right NOW!
Feel free to share widely to those who will ACT on Tuesday! If you know anyone who lives in the state of PA, encourage them to spend a few hours at the polls Tuesday to get folks to sign petitions from the Better Path Coalition to preserve Article 1 Section 27 of the state of PA's Constitution which assures us citizens of PA clean air and fresh water. Note: Details for this initiative are at the BOTTOM of this e-mail including a link to the petition!
Even if you've never done work with petitions, please step out of your comfort zone, take a clip board and a stack of petitions with you Tuesday to the polls and for the rest of your day Tuesday. You will be happy you did!
This has been a wild week in Pittsburgh, PA. From the darkness emerges the light. Yet, it's important to get involved in order to watch the positive unfolding. Here's a few simple ways to get involved this Tuesday and it goes just a bit beyond voting if you have the courage to step just a tad outside of your comfort zone. If you need courage to do this and a bit of healing of your spirit, let us know *sustainablemonroeville@gmail.
The bottom line from our perspective is vote NO on all five ballot questions at the polls on Tuesday. We MUST keep Monroeville's Home Rule Charter intact at this time! Another bottom line is to read what's way down at the bottom of this e-mail, print out and take some petitions and a clip board for people to sign the petition to preserve Article 1 Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution which ensures clean air and fresh water for the citizens of the Commonwealth of PA. We've GOT this!
Blessings, Peace, and Namasté to all of my friends and relations! Elisa Beck :)
Question 1, according to Monroeville's municipal website is recommended to be "yes" vote, which contradicts the "no" recommendation we heard at the last council meeting from at least 2 members of council. When you examine what an elected tax collector's duties are, it's clear that they shall NOT include collection of what's known as "511 taxes" (business privilege, mercantile, local service taxes). The way it's already set by HRC, the tax office employees are continue their work on 511 taxes. Those employees report directly to the municipal manager, who should be responsible for how those are collected. It makes sense to leave the HRC alone and allow the manager to administrate, which is in line with what that position does with the financial manager in budget planning and implementation.
Question 2, is also recommended on Mrv's website to be "yes", but if you read the HRC, all contracts or purchases > $4,000 may be increased by Council to the extend of the maximum permitted from time to time. Why change something that has method to be adjusted under current rules? Every provision currently allows the bidding process to be fair.
Question 3 is also recommended to be Y, which is another reason to ask, "why?" Council has power to investigate hearings and subpoena power. Why is it necessary to change for the sake of being able to do it out of state, as each state has it own provisions. Give us a reason. I see none, and I don't take it for granted to fix something that is not broken.
Question 4 is also recommend to be Y, but uses no reasoning to remove a section that aligns with the state constitution as defined by the Local Government Commission, which DOES allow under the PA Constitution the exclusive grounds for removal of an official. So, why strike down the paragraph that aligns with this and just refer to section 2109 of the HRC, which is nebulous in what is intended for removal from or forfeiture of office of elected officials. The municipality's explanation of this in my view is disingenuous. "Infamous crimes" are those that include forgery, perjury, embezzlement of public monies. That makes me more than suspicious.
Question 5 on Recall is another one recommended for Y, but I ask again, "Why?" When officials commit malfeasance, misfeasance or violation of the oath of office, they should be called out on it. True, it's almost impossible to recall an elected official, but it is legal. It takes 2/3 of the state legislature under the Senate to follow through, and true, people have to be pretty pissed off to even coordinate a petition to start this process off. But, IT'S OUR PROCESS. I say this, as surely many other people say this. We need to take note of Home Rule seriously! Why take a process away that may account for these violations? Why shouldn't we remind locally officials to act in accordance to the law? They should operate in accordance to law. It's time we all took our own little civics course, got a copy of the Home Rule Charter (it used to cost $3.00) and bring it to every meeting we attend. Yes, the public has a right to refer to this document, which means, READ IT. Remember... An elected group of citizens studied the conditions we should be governed by locally. They were elected by referendum, not by the closed door process we saw a few years ago. In 1974, this was a decision by everyone in Monroeville to study the conditions to open up government, not restrict it! Before then, things were a little too restricted under borough code. They went through an OPEN process that resulted in the HRC being developed. It's time we remembered that, and WHY this group of people, some who are still alive (thank you, Mary Lou Span) and they did us all a favor of having the vision to determine what was right LOCALLY, BY LAW. It's our constitution! Realize this.... Since last year, we are looking at referendums that haven't even seen a ray of sunshine in the process of their development. Never let something become MORE restrictive. ALWAYS keep the public aware of how the people we elect are using the rules. NEVER make the implementation of those rules restrictive by introducing legislation to limit our ability to hold them responsible."
Please vote NO on all five ballot questions! Thanks Lois Drumheller for letting us know why!
On another note, The Better Path Coalition is planning to kick off 2019 with a HUGE event celebrating Article 1, Section 27 of the PA Constitution. As a founding member of the coalition, we're working with our partners to plan an amazing day of action on Sunday, 1/27 and a delivery of this petition to every office in the capitol on Monday, 1/28 (with some very special help). We want whoever wins the election in November and whoever returns to Harrisburg to uphold the amendment, which happens to be the strongest of its kind in the country. We want elected officials who will lead on climate, take aggressive action against pollution, and prevent new sources of pollution from entering PA.
We'll be at the polls on November 6th with paper copies of this petition we'll be asking voters to sign as they leave. We're looking for volunteers across the state to spend an hour or two (or more) gathering signatures. If you'd like to take part, please register here! http://bit. ly/petitionatthepolls
That's why I signed a petition to Gubernatorial and Legislative Winners of 2018 PA Midterm Election, which says:
"You will serve during the period climate scientists agree is the last chance we have to act if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. You will also be charged with taking on threats to our water, air, and environment that have harmed our communities and natural resources, in some cases, for years.
Pennsylvania’s constitution contains the strongest environmental rights amendment in the country. Article 1, Section 27 says “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”
We call on every newly-elected official and every elected official who returns to Harrisburg in 2019 to fulfill their Constitutional obligation to uphold Article 1, Section 27 by taking aggressive action to address the urgent environmental and climate challenges that confront us and establishing policies that prevent new sources of pollution from entering the Commonwealth.
Will you sign the petition, too? Click here to add your name:
https://petitions.moveon.org/
Thanks!
We'll be at the polls on November 6th with paper copies of this petition we'll be asking voters to sign as they leave. We're looking for volunteers across the state to spend an hour or two (or more) gathering signatures. If you'd like to take part, please register here! http://bit. ly/petitionatthepolls
That's why I signed a petition to Gubernatorial and Legislative Winners of 2018 PA Midterm Election, which says:
"You will serve during the period climate scientists agree is the last chance we have to act if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. You will also be charged with taking on threats to our water, air, and environment that have harmed our communities and natural resources, in some cases, for years.
Pennsylvania’s constitution contains the strongest environmental rights amendment in the country. Article 1, Section 27 says “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”
We call on every newly-elected official and every elected official who returns to Harrisburg in 2019 to fulfill their Constitutional obligation to uphold Article 1, Section 27 by taking aggressive action to address the urgent environmental and climate challenges that confront us and establishing policies that prevent new sources of pollution from entering the Commonwealth.
Will you sign the petition, too? Click here to add your name:
https://petitions.moveon.org/
Thanks!
One more thing y'all:
Subject: Uphold PA's Environmental Rights Amendment & Act on Climate
Hi,
I signed a petition to Gubernatorial and Legislative Winners of 2018 PA Midterm Election.
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/uphold-pas-environmental-1?source=s.em.cp&r_hash=JDTRJIEU
Thanks!
Like Sustainable Monroeville on Facebook!
Friday, September 21, 2018
October 1, 2018 in Monroeville and Plum! Electric Cars, Plum Waste Injection Well hearing announced, Deutsch Well Pad Land Development final approval in Penn Township close to Monroeville.
SAVE the DATES: Monday, October 1, 2018 from 6:30-8:30 PM for the next meeting of Sustainable Monroeville at the Monroeville Public Library with guest speakers via the internet on Electric Cars in our town and at 6:00 pm in Plum, for a hearing on the injection well in Plum, PA. How can you be in two places at once? Well...decide which event you resonate most with, then send a friend or family member to the other event! Written testimony on the Plum injection well can be submitted to the DEP through October 8. Details below.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 the Penn Township Planning Commission will meet at 6:45 pm for a workshop session and the meeting will begin at 7:30 pm. Some of their new business includes " Acceptance of the Deutsch Well Pad Final Land Development for final approval of a land development. The property is located at 888 Meadowbrook Road. Property is zoned RR (Rural Resource). Tax map parcel 55-02-00-0-023." This property is about 0.2 mile from the Monroeville Municipal pool and about three miles from the Monroeville Municipal building.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 the Penn Township Planning Commission will meet at 6:45 pm for a workshop session and the meeting will begin at 7:30 pm. Some of their new business includes " Acceptance of the Deutsch Well Pad Final Land Development for final approval of a land development. The property is located at 888 Meadowbrook Road. Property is zoned RR (Rural Resource). Tax map parcel 55-02-00-0-023." This property is about 0.2 mile from the Monroeville Municipal pool and about three miles from the Monroeville Municipal building.
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Sharing Electric Cars in Monroeville? Yup! The Greenspot team is very excited to present their shared mobility program to Sustainable Monroeville. Their innovative program is a proven way to lower CO2 emissions, decrease the number of cars on the road and have far-reaching sustainable benefits for all residents.
GREENSPOT will share their concept of electric vehicle (EV) car sharing, a promising alternative to greenhouse gas vehicles up and down our traffic corridor. They have implemented one of the only EV car-sharing programs in the United States through a pilot partnership with Zipcar and ChargePoint, which provides easy access to EV charging stations and curbside infrastructure for EVs.
Monroeville was recently introduced to how they work with municipalities and landlords to address the future challenges of urban mobility. Urban dwellers and the millenial generation are not keep to own a vehicle that sits idle for 95% of the time. It may be the right time to resort to more fundamentally sustainable alternatives such as car sharing and electric vehicles.
Greenspot will present via the internet. Sustainable Monroeville invites you to see this presentation with us. Will this reliably revolutionize the way we commute? Will it be more economical? We need a long term solution to revolutionize urban mobility!
Questions? Contact sustainablemonroeville@gmail.com
GREENSPOT will share their concept of electric vehicle (EV) car sharing, a promising alternative to greenhouse gas vehicles up and down our traffic corridor. They have implemented one of the only EV car-sharing programs in the United States through a pilot partnership with Zipcar and ChargePoint, which provides easy access to EV charging stations and curbside infrastructure for EVs.
Monroeville was recently introduced to how they work with municipalities and landlords to address the future challenges of urban mobility. Urban dwellers and the millenial generation are not keep to own a vehicle that sits idle for 95% of the time. It may be the right time to resort to more fundamentally sustainable alternatives such as car sharing and electric vehicles.
Greenspot will present via the internet. Sustainable Monroeville invites you to see this presentation with us. Will this reliably revolutionize the way we commute? Will it be more economical? We need a long term solution to revolutionize urban mobility!
Questions? Contact sustainablemonroeville@gmail.com
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Public hearing scheduled on waste injection well in Plum
State environmental officials have scheduled a public hearing for a company’s proposal to locate a waste injection well in Plum.
Penneco Environmental Solutions is seeking approval from the Department of Environmental Protection to dispose of wastewater at the Sedat #3A natural gas well in Plum.
The hearing is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1 in the auditorium at Oblock Junior High School, 440 Presque Isle Drive.
The conventional, non-shale well was first drilled in 1989 to a depth of 4,300 feet and extracted natural gas at three depths. The well was put out of service in 2015 and plugged to a depth of 1,900 feet.
According to the DEP, both it and the federal Environmental Protection Agency must approve permits for the proposed injection well, which is located off of Old Leechburg Road near Greensburg Road.
On March 7, the EPA issued an underground injection control permit for the well. It allows the company to inject wastewater into the well, pending DEP issuing a permit to change its use from production to disposal. Penneco applied to the DEP on March 13 to change its use to allow disposal.
Those wishing to testify at the hearing should register in advance by contacting Lauren Fraley, DEP community relations coordinator, atlfraley@pa.gov or 412-442-4203 before noon on Sept. 28. Participants will also be able to register at the door before the hearing beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Participants will have up to five minutes to pose comments, statements or questions, and should bring written copies of their testimony and exhibits to submit to the DEP. Organizations are asked to designate one individual to speak on their behalf.
The DEP said it will respond to all comments and questions raised in testimony in a written comment and response document.
Written testimony will be accepted at the DEP’s Southwest Regional Office at 400 Waterfront Drive, Pittsburgh, 15222 until Oct. 8. Written statements must include name, address and phone number of the person making them and identification of the permit application - Sedat #3A.
Brian Rittmeyer is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Brian at 724-226-4701, brittmeyer@tribweb.com or via Twitter @BCRittmeyer.
All the best!
Doug Shields
Douglas A. Shields
W. PA Outreach Liaison
Pittsburgh, PA
Food & Water Watch
Office: 1 267 428 1917
Cell: 1 412 969 5816
The Municipal Ordinance Project (MOP)
Don’t Be A Town Without a Plan! Does your local Zoning Code protect you?
Many Allegheny County cities, municipalities unprepared for shale gas drilling rebound
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
Monroeville's Ordinance for Stormwater Management....
Thursday evening, September 6, 2018 at 7:00 pm is the Monroeville Council Study Session.
Take a look at the draft ordinance on the MS4 plan for Monroeville. This will be discussed tonight.
http://www.monroeville.pa.us/PDF/PollutionControlFloodReductionOrdDraft.pdf
See the Monroeville web site for details.
Sunday, August 5, 2018
Health Effects of Unconventional Shale Gas Development on Children
Please attend the August meeting of Sustainable Monroeville at the Monroeville Public Library on Monday evening, August 6, 2018 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm.
The program will cover the health effects of fracking on children and
adults in communities where unconventional shale gas development
(fracking) is occuring. Some of the amazing speakers include Lois
Bjornson, Dr. Ned Ketyer, and Kelly Yagatich. We'll hear an update on the state of the oil and gas ordinance in Monroeville, PA and
will share the map our municipal manager, Tim Little prepared showing
the proximity of both active and proposed well pads in Plum and Penn
Township to Monroeville, PA. Existing Murrysville well pads are not yet on this
map. Flyers will be available detailing the Environmental Health
Registry for people who live within five miles of a well pad which
already includes some of the population in Monroeville and likely will
include all who live in Monroeville once all of the proposed pads are
built likely within the next few years.
Lois Bower-Bjornson is the mother of four and lives in the most
heavily fracked county in Pennsylvania Washington County. Lois is a
field organizer for Clean Air Council. She works on the local, state,
& federal levels to address communities concerns of living with oil
and gas and their backyards.
Dr.
Ned Ketyer has special interests in developmental pediatrics and
preventative medicine, specifically how nutrition and the environment
affect health. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of
Vermont and his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical
School. He completed his residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. As
one of the founding physicians of Pediatric Alliance, PC, Dr. Ketyer
served as its president from 1997-2004. He has been practicing general
pediatrics at Pediatric Alliance since 1990. Dr. Ketyer and his wife
have three boys and live in Pittsburgh's South Hills.
Kelly
Yagatich works for Clean Air Council and is a resident of Monroeville.
Kelly will be informing us of the petrochemical build out of Shell's new
proposed ethane cracker plant 30 miles north of Pittsburgh and sharing the same airshed as Pittsburgh, PA.
SAVE the DATE: There will be an event co-sponsored by the Environmental Health Project, ProtecT PT and Sustainable Monroeville on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at the Penn Area Library Multi-Purpose room from 10 am to 2 pm in Harrison City, PA 15636 to register with the health registry
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please share this information widely. We are depending on you the community to spread the word and bring your friends as neighbors to this informative meeting.
Thanks so much!
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Hydraulic Fracturing aka Fracking and associated infrastructure is upon us in Monroeville, PA and the Eastern Suburbs
Hello and Happy end of June 2018! What's new in Monroeville, PA and surrounding communities in the Eastern suburbs. A lot of active and proposed hydraulic fracturing wells and associated infrastructure including the injection well just approved for Plum, PA...
Please come to the July 2, 2018 at 7:00 PM meeting of Sustainable Monroeville at the Monroeville Public Library to learn more from Gillian Graber and what action items you can take.
Modeling our Regenerative future and taking care of Mother Earth 🌏 is what we all are learning by spending time at Boyce Park at the Meadow on Indian Hill. The beautiful brown-eyed Susans are in full bloom! We learn how to give back to the earth by putting plants in the ground that are good for pollinators like 🦅 birds and 🐝 bees. We understand we can reduce the amount of grass in our yards and parks and instead plant wild flowers and food. We learn to steer clear of herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides on our yards and in our food and water.
In conjunction with all we learn, we must understand why it’s of utmost importance that Monroeville PA put an oil & gas ordinance in place with specific restrictions on noise levels, light levels, air and water pollution monitoring and more. So far Monroeville Council and the Mayor do not agree. What is your opinion? Please join us for the Monday July 2, 2018 at 7:00 pm meeting of Sustainable Monroeville at the Monroeville Public Library (MPL) to learn from Gillian Graber, Executive Director of Protect PT for updates about proposed fracking sites in two of our neighboring communities Penn Township and Trafford. Ms. Graber will also cover what we as individuals can do to protect ourselves.
Other Save the Dates: Thursday, July 5, 2018 for Citizens Night and Tuesday, July 10 at 7:00 pm for the council meeting at the Monroeville Municipal building Wednesday, July 18 6:30-8:30 for Clean Air Council’s Groups of 10 at the MPL. Free, open to the public & All are welcome!
Put August 29, 2018 on your calendar as a tentative SAVE the DATE for the EHP coming to Monroeville, PA to sign folks up for the health registry. We are within 5 miles, most of us, of an active pad in Plum, I think....The proposed well pad just over into Westmoreland County beyond the bike path on Saunders Station is 0.2 mile from the Monroeville Municipal pool. About 1.2 miles from Ramsey Elementary and closer to Crossroads Pre-School.
See you on Monday, July 2, 2018 at 7:00 PM to hear genius Gillian Graber of ProtecT PT educate and activate all of us!
Elisa Beck :)
sustainablemonroeville@gmail.com
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Friday, April 6, 2018
Seismic Testing in April, 2018 Monroeville, PA. What's Next?
Hello, and Happy windy and cold April! The delicate buds are peeking out of the ground in Monroeville, PA. So pretty. Soon the lime green buds will take over and bathe us in new life and a new way of seeing ourselves and what has been going on here in Monroeville, PA...
Be sure to mark your calendar for the April 10, 2018 at 7:00 PM Monroeville Council meeting at the Monroeville Muncipal building. Does anyone know if citizens concerns about the Seismic Testing that has been occurring in the Municipality of Monroeville has been placed on the agenda for this upcoming council meeting? Please call Mr. Little, the municipal manager, or e-mail to him to ask. Our guess is there will be many citizens at the meeting wanting some answers about what has transpired in our beautiful town of Monroeville, PA over these past few weeks. Is the testing still occurring? Seismic testing that is? Has Geokinetics completed its work? If not, when will the work be complete? Will citizens be informed of upcoming exact dates and times if Seismic charges, aka explosives, are used so we know what to expect? Who knew this would be occurring or has already occurred in at least one cemetery in Monroeville, PA? Is that a legal use of Seismic Testing, explosive seismic testing in a cemetery? These questions and many more were asked by residents at the Sustainable Monroeville meeting this past week. These questions remain unanswered. And now we're not sure what to believe based on what's in the Seismic Testing ordinance, and what's really been happening.
Here's links to a few articles that appeared in TribLive this week regarding what's been happening in Monroeville, PA this week:
http://triblive.com/local/monroeville/13503210-74/monroeville-asks-court-to-halt-companys-seismic-testing
http://triblive.com/local/monroeville/13503666-74/residents-block-seismic-testing-on-one-street-in-monroeville
As of this writing at 3:30 PM on Friday afternoon, April 5, 2018, there have been sightings of Geokinetics in Monroeville, PA. What are they doing, and where are they doing it?
The next meeting of Sustainable Monroeville will be on Monday evening, May 7, 2018 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. As always these meetings are in the downstairs program room of the Monroeville Public Library and are free and open to the public. All municipal officials, councilpersons, the Mayor, and of course all community members are invited to this next meeting where the agenda will focus on putting updated and most appropriate oil and gas laws in place to protect our property and our health as it seems fracking is coming down the pike! Please reach out to your councilperson directly to invite them to this upcoming meeting.
Based on how the Seismic Testing was handled, we, the citizens must be vigilant and be sure everyone is following the rules. We must be proactive because it has become apparent that once the industry begins what they set out to do, the ball keeps rolling even if they are not necessarily following the rules...
Below is from Doug Shields of Food and Water Watch, a Non-Profit. Doug has been helping us along in this process of educating the public about Seismic Testing and now soon, Fracking so We the People, the Citizens of Monroeville, PA will be able to protect our residences, business and health. Thanks Doug!
Be sure to mark your calendar for the April 10, 2018 at 7:00 PM Monroeville Council meeting at the Monroeville Muncipal building. Does anyone know if citizens concerns about the Seismic Testing that has been occurring in the Municipality of Monroeville has been placed on the agenda for this upcoming council meeting? Please call Mr. Little, the municipal manager, or e-mail to him to ask. Our guess is there will be many citizens at the meeting wanting some answers about what has transpired in our beautiful town of Monroeville, PA over these past few weeks. Is the testing still occurring? Seismic testing that is? Has Geokinetics completed its work? If not, when will the work be complete? Will citizens be informed of upcoming exact dates and times if Seismic charges, aka explosives, are used so we know what to expect? Who knew this would be occurring or has already occurred in at least one cemetery in Monroeville, PA? Is that a legal use of Seismic Testing, explosive seismic testing in a cemetery? These questions and many more were asked by residents at the Sustainable Monroeville meeting this past week. These questions remain unanswered. And now we're not sure what to believe based on what's in the Seismic Testing ordinance, and what's really been happening.
Here's links to a few articles that appeared in TribLive this week regarding what's been happening in Monroeville, PA this week:
http://triblive.com/local/monroeville/13503210-74/monroeville-asks-court-to-halt-companys-seismic-testing
http://triblive.com/local/monroeville/13503666-74/residents-block-seismic-testing-on-one-street-in-monroeville
As of this writing at 3:30 PM on Friday afternoon, April 5, 2018, there have been sightings of Geokinetics in Monroeville, PA. What are they doing, and where are they doing it?
The next meeting of Sustainable Monroeville will be on Monday evening, May 7, 2018 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. As always these meetings are in the downstairs program room of the Monroeville Public Library and are free and open to the public. All municipal officials, councilpersons, the Mayor, and of course all community members are invited to this next meeting where the agenda will focus on putting updated and most appropriate oil and gas laws in place to protect our property and our health as it seems fracking is coming down the pike! Please reach out to your councilperson directly to invite them to this upcoming meeting.
Based on how the Seismic Testing was handled, we, the citizens must be vigilant and be sure everyone is following the rules. We must be proactive because it has become apparent that once the industry begins what they set out to do, the ball keeps rolling even if they are not necessarily following the rules...
Below is from Doug Shields of Food and Water Watch, a Non-Profit. Doug has been helping us along in this process of educating the public about Seismic Testing and now soon, Fracking so We the People, the Citizens of Monroeville, PA will be able to protect our residences, business and health. Thanks Doug!
"There is an Oil and Gas Drilling zoning ordinance in place in Monroeville.
A brief History…
Last summer, I worked with Sustainable Monroeville to get the Seismic Survey Ordinance enacted (9/2017).
At that time I met with Manager, Tim Little, and pointed out to him that Monroeville’s zoning code:
1. Has an oil and gas section.
2. That the code allowed for fracking, as a conditional use exception, in all zoning districts of the municipality. See old ordinance (still on line) https://www.ecode360.com/documents/MO1197/source/563338.pdf#search=gas%20oil
2. That the code allowed for fracking, as a conditional use exception, in all zoning districts of the municipality. See old ordinance (still on line) https://www.ecode360.com/documents/MO1197/source/563338.pdf#search=gas%20oil
- Informed that this was an incompatible use with residential and commercial and other non-industrial zoning districts.
- Fracking is an industrial land use
- Any fracking operations should be limited to the municipality’s industrial zones, as a conditional use; it is an industrial activity it goes to the industrial zone. The industrial zones are noted in light blue on the municipal zoning map: You will note that this amendment to the zoning code significantly limits areas where drilling/fracking can be donehttp://www.monroeville.pa.us/docs/commdev/PdfZoningMap01042018.pdf
- In October, 2017, Monroeville Council amended their code to do just that.
- In December 2017, legislation was offered in Council (no one would admit to being the bill’s sponsor which is very odd) to further amend the zoning code to allow fracking in the S1 Special Conservancy district. See zoning map – dark green area in the SW of the municipality. This would increase the likelihood of fracking as there is room for a well pad there. It is about 3 miles from the well going in at the Edgar Thompson Steel mill (the portion in in N. Versailles).
- Huntley and Huntley has leases for gas in this area as well. (see FracTracker lease map: http://leases.fractracker.org
The leases are noted in orange. Click on the large orange tracts in south Monroeville – note the area is all leased by Huntley and Huntley. Then, attempt to convince me that they don’t want to frack in Monroeville. Who sponsored the amendment to expand fracking us in the S1- Special Conservancy district? I have no idea. You have to have a council member introduce the legislation. Were it not for the vigilance of Sustainable Monroeville members, the amendment may well have been passed unnoticed.
The S1- Special Conservancy district is essentially the area occupied by the old Chambers municipal waste landfill (now owned by Waste Management). The Planning commission gave the amendment a negative recommendation. Allegheny County Planning review of the proposed ordinance raised significant questions about the amendment as to both its form and substance.
The Council took action last month to remove the offered amendment from the agenda.
Pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipal Planning Code (which allows municipalities to employ zoning) you cannot ban a legal land use via zoning. I provide you with a link to a document that explains the basics of zoning very well. The matter of exclusionary zoning is defined there at page 8. “
This is a very good resource to understand the basics of zoning in PA. Easy to read and understand."
Sincerely,
Doug Shields
Douglas A. Shields
W. PA Outreach Liaison
Food & Water Watch
Cell: 1 412 969 5816
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
April Meetings in Monroeville, PA about Seismic Testing and Fracking in Monroeville, PA
Hello, Everybody!
March came in … not with a good, good, good Beach Boys vibration, but with vibes we had been warned about in Butler, Fayette and Westmoreland Counties sounding off on seismic testing. As we head into April, our group of Sustainable Monroeville Volunteers have meanwhile been busy canvassing all over Monroeville. The overwhelming numbers of homeowners are NOT happy about seismic testing. Have you seen the signs? There is one more event door knocking event to complete, as our volunteers have covered 8 out of 9 territories (turfs).
Come to the next Sustainable Monroeville Meeting to hear about and discuss Monroeville’s reaction to the O&G Industry.
Monday, April 2, 2018, 7:00 PM, Monroeville Public Library Program Room
Agenda:
- Seismic Testing and miscommunications (or, How GeoKinetics - the seismic testing arm of Huntley and Huntley, are stomping and shaking their way through Monroeville).
- News of Air Quality Monitoring Systems, with thanks to our friends in Westmoreland County, where they know a thing or two about safety measurements. An Allegheny County Update on that.
- Monroeville Council’s upcoming Seven Springs Mountain Resort Meeting, which is the reason Council has moved Citizens’ Night up to Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Municipality of Monroeville (let’s wish them a great time in the resort learning about new initiatives, and … wait - there is nothing at this conference about the Oil and Gas Industry???)
See you Monday night, April 2, 2018… Bring a friend. Bring a neighbor. Everyone is welcomed!
Great Big Thank You,
Hope has two daughters, anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. St. Augustine
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