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I’ve been served!

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Dear Readers,

Range Resources, the big, BIG bullies, just served me with a subpoena in the Lipsky case.

The bullies want all the lint from my pockets and they want a big old pie in the sky. The lint in my pockets belongs to me and has nothing to do with them. And the pie is in the sky so Range Resources is SOL.

The silliest thing is their request for all the stuff about them that’s on my blog. Most of the Free World has access to that. Everything I know, Dear Readers, you know. Here’s how Range Resources can find everything about them: Look in the right hand column for CATEGORIES. Click on the down arrow and select “Range Resources.” That will produce everything that I have ever posted about Range Resources.

 

 

About Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

Comments

      • Eric Jellison says

        If I was large corporation with a 10 billion market cap and an image problem, the first thing I would do is serve one woman blogger. Maybe next they can club some baby seals.

      • Eric Jellison says

        Geez, lost money for 2 years and 5% margins in 2011. It appears they aren’t good at PR, drilling wells, or making money. Look out, I might get sued for spewing facts.

      • Liz Bucar says

        or, they know you’re beyond their “redemptive services” and are hoping the rest of us will be cowed. Wish they’d understand we’re fighting for our lives and aren’t going anywhere…even if we had some place else. If they’d just get that, they’d fold their tents and go, go, go, go away.

  4. Dentoncountywellwatcher says

    Range wants to make sure they get their money’s worth out of the judges in Texas.
    Can’t wait to see Range served a subpoena from the Federal Government for obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and solicitation of a state court judge. Only if they are guilty of course.

  6. Flow Back says

    I can only imagine the frustration Range is feeling these days. It’s one bad move after another. If Matt Mouthpiece isn’t shooting himself in the foot, he’s shooting his employers in the foot. Feet? As many screw ups as this Good Neighbor has had, it’s hard to think of when their insanity started…screwing over Ron Gulla, Steph Hallowich and her family, then lying about it and getting caught, a failed and painful PR tactic with their psyop program, calling people who dare to fight back ‘insurgents’, then lying about that. For a successful multi-billion dollar company to continually make these rookie mistakes, you’d think they were taking their advice from the three stooges at Energy in Depth.

  7. DEB LAMBERT says

    Surely you are not surprised! That’s how they all work. People that tell the truth about what is going on get a big ole heavy handed lawyer as their personal watchdog, in hopes that you will shut up. These are called SLAPP suits. Here’s hoping you can turn the tables and file a countersuit for them harassing you.

      • GhostBlogger says

        Time to take a page out of the Bill Gates book, and get amnesia. He sure forgot a lot on things on Capitol Hill in the one Hearing. 😉

        • Elaine says

          Amen to that one, Ghostblogger.

          I think it’d be hard for them to deny your friends and associates access, too. We should all show up en mass. Make sure subpoena is valid, first. AMHIK.

  8. Kim Feil says

    I feel like I live in a third world country…afraid to breathe the polluted air, stuck living near devalued property, not able to find proof of unfracked produce and beef, & freedom of speech comes with paid attorney vultures just circling around….never have I ever wished more to live in another country. There are other countries that will be fossil fuel free soon. Once they are….we can rubb that in our 1%’ers faces while we take our cancer treatments.

    • noethforkflyer says

      Fossil fuel free? Lets see. Somillia comes to mind.How about Zimbabwe? Most advanced country in Africa in 1970, now an almost totally fossils free bottom of the heap 3rd world country, with a mortality rate that must be seen to be believed. Let me know, maybe we can help wiith the steerage fees.

  10. Sue Heavenrich says

    Come and here my story ’bout a man named Jeff
    Poor CEO, barely kept his family fed
    Then one day he was trollin’ through the web
    Reading Texas Sharon’s posts made him see red…..
    (Theme song of “RR,Texas Hill-Bullies”)

  11. Tammi says

    @ Sue. Love it! lol. This is intimidation in the worst way. And publicly at that. The industry is usually very secretive when they are doing it. I guess all that exposure to chemicals have warped their thought process.
    Thanks Sharon for standing up to the big gas mafia.

  12. Tillotson says

    Kim,

    “When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty–to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” – Abe Lincoln, 1855

  13. Anonymous says

    Don’t expect any help from the Tx court system–it’s crooked and bought off by Big Gas mafia.

  14. Tim Ruggiero says

    Actually, I would fully expect the court system to help-you don’t have to be an attorney to know that one cannot use the court system in an effort to extract information from someone who has nothing to do with a baseless lawsuit. Given that Sharon’s ‘secret vault’ of information RR is looking for is posted right here, then this is just an obvious attempt to intimidate Sharon into stop telling the truth. I know, it’s PSYOP! That’s it! Matt Pitzarella’s attempt to use the Vulcan Mind Bend isn’t working, so he went with the next best thing-send in the attack dogs.

  16. Marcellus Shale says

    Range is ‘winning friends and influencing people’ in Pennsylvania too. Most of their influence is in the state capitol lining politicians pockets with money. Most of their friends are… uh, maybe subcontractors who haven’t been paid yet? Known for their slow-pay. And what about all the ‘Lessors’ in Pa. who had to sue them because they were getting bilked for gas processing, transportation and storage, amounting to nearly 50% of their royalty checks! Who knew? There isn’t enough space to write about all their spills, blunders and excuses. Did you know one of their latest spills was caused by a *rabid skunk* chewing into a wastewater pipe? Shazam!

      • Marcellus Shale says

        That’s the first time the ‘rabid skunk’ story has been told on the internet. Range’s other excuses around spills have been “vandals” and a “defective coupling” so next it will probably be ‘rabid Pennsylvania gray squirrels’ causing their Mayhem. Ha!

  17. Jerry Lobdill says

    This is hilarious! They’re afraid of you, so they’re trying harassment.

    Will there be a deposition?

    When and where is your cameo appearance in court?

    Can I have your autograph? ROFLMAO!

  18. Anymous says

    If there is a public appearance for depositions, let us know–we will travel miles to see the mafia in action.

    • TXsharon says

      I have to give a deposition but I don’t think they allow spectators. If they do, you are welcome to watch the circus. I will post the transcript of the deposition for your enjoyment.

  19. Chip Northrup says

    The water wells around the Lipsky’s (and theirs) went bad when the Range gas well went through the Strawn formation and mobilized methane into the groundwater. So any one of those residential water systems could have accumulated methane to hazardous levels. This is not in dispute. It happens all the time. And it should be outted. It’s a growing problem that defies technical solutions. Good on you Sharon.

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/65577477/How-Gas-Wells-Leak

  21. HighPlainsDrifter says

    Do You Swear To Tell The Truth and Nothing But the Truth? If So, Then Your Words Will Defeat You!

  22. Elaine says

    Chip, that article of your’s is excellent — wish I didn’t believe it and could blow it all off but I’ve intuitively known it was true from the first few articles I read that began to reveal the true nature and scope of this unconventional drilling — then your input and then Marc Durand’s, too, just confirmed it.
    Sharon, don’t forget to ck out Marc Durand’s facebook page showing his scientific explanation of why it will happen even without rusty pipes.

  23. Maura Stephens says

    You have friends, admirers, supporters everywhere, Sharon. Don’t let ’em get to ya. I believe this is just an intimidation tactic, as you obviously are not hiding anything. With you in solidarity.

    • Anonanon says

      when you write about Range Resources use RRC because that is their stock market abbreviation.

  25. GhostBlogger says

    Will do! Maybe there’s a conspiracy at other fracking outfits in this case, and RRC needs to serve everyone who works at every other fracking company. Or, blogs about RRC competitors. Or. works at Dow Jones or any other financial analyst place.

  26. John_Pgh says

    You should know that Calvin T. has encouraged all of us to write to David Poole and ask why Sharon is being deposed. It seems like a good idea; and I assume that Sharon would’ve told him if his initiative were unwelcome.

    So, how about it? Have you written to Mr. Poole?

  28. Jeanne M. says

    My understanding of PA law, though I’m no attorney, is that a subpoena is not enforceable except in criminal cases. I wanted to subpoena a doctor to testify in a civil case, and my attorney said it would not be enforceable in civil court.

    Don’t know if you want to follow up with a Texas attorney, but if you do, just make sure you CYA.

  29. elaine says

    I’m thinking that Jeanne M may be right unless you are a party to the suit and you aren’t. Like I said get some advice, don’t just go and offer yourself up. They are just intimidators.
    Sharon, I saw that commercial you’re talking about and emailed Calvin about it to see if it was true. I haven’t heard back from him. So you know it isn’t true? I probably either saw it on channel 11 or 27. If I see it again, I’ll call the station and try to get a time for when it might air again. elaine

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