Monday, January 26, 2015

Silencing the Victims


An oil company has silenced the Hallowich family under a gag order and a 750,000 dollar settlement. This includes the two children of the family ages 10 and 7 that now for their rest of their lives will be unable talk about fracking or Marcellus shale. Range Resource Corp arranged the gag order after the family came forward with complaints that the industrial processes next to their farm was destroying their farm and contaminating the water supply and caused health issues. Unfortunately as a result the two minors will no longer have freedom of speech for the rest of their lives. Read more of the Guardian article here.

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