Author: Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales
Fracking accidents will send tourists to the Shore
If I were to be a responsible Marylander or if I lived in western Maryland, I would think a three-year fracking moratorium would be an extremely good idea. In fact, if I lived in western Maryland and didn’t own mineral rights that made me rich, I would approve a hundred-year moratorium.
I have wondered, a little, about why, with the abundance of American oil and gas again, people think they need to start a new fracking rig right now. Seems it would be better just to relax and wait. Let the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren frack for oil after we are dead and everybody else is pumped dry. They would make real money.
Read More Here: http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/opinion/2015/03/27/different-views-fracking-mason/70579382/
2015 Garrett County Tax Sale Set
The 2015 Garrett County Tax Sale will be held on Friday, May 1st in the Commissioners’ Public Meeting Room at the Garrett County Courthouse, 203 South 4th Street, Oakland, MD. To view a full list of properties currently scheduled for sale, click here: http://garrettcounty.org/resources/tax-office/pdf/2015-tax-sale.pdf
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Rascovar: Fracking follies at the State House
For MarylandReporter.com
Shakespeare, as usual, had it right. “Full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” That describes the squabbling in Annapolis over hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking.”
It is a phantom issue in Maryland.
Environmentalists and do-gooder legislators are panicked that fracking will mean earthquakes, tainted drinking water, dirty air, despoliation of pristine farmland and other biblical plagues. They want to bar this drilling procedure forever in Maryland.
Never mind that wide-spread fracking has been going on since 1950. In those 65 years, more than one million wells have been fracked, in which a combination of water, sand and chemicals is pumped under high pressure deep into shale formations. This fractures the rock and sends deposits of oil and/or natural gas gushing to the surface.
Low oil prices = No fracking
There’s only a tiny part of Maryland where hydraulic fracturing into the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation is viable — in far Western Maryland, i.e., portions of Garrett County and a bit of Allegany County. The number of farmers who might benefit from oil and gas royalties is very small.
Read More Here: http://marylandreporter.com/2015/03/29/rascovar-fracking-follies-at-the-state-house/
Hello Water! Goodbye Ice!
The ice on Deep Creek Lake is finally GONE! Just another sign that Spring has to be here soon!
Famous Travelers: Edison, Ford, Firestone: A Memorial Service is Held for John Burroughs at Camp Harding
By Francis Champ Zumbrun
“The woods will get you if you don’t watch out…Stay out close to nature and you won’t want to come back to the civilizing influences of trolley cars, telephones, porcelain bathtubs and nickel plumbing.” – Thomas Edison at Muddy Creek, MD July 1921
The general public read with great interest the articles that appeared in newspapers across the country reporting the camping adventures of the vagabonds in western Maryland. The Maryland newspapers included photographs showing the famous men participating in various outdoor activities with President Harding, from relaxing in canvas-backed wooden folding chairs to horseback riding.
One photograph captured Edison napping comfortably on the bare ground. Soon after that photograph was taken, President Harding gently put a newspaper over Edison’s face and smiled at child looking on in the crowd and said, “we can’t let the gnats eat him up, now can we?”
After returning to the campsite from a horseback ride, the men went fishing for about 30 minutes in Licking Creek, catching nothing. Edison was overheard saying,” I don’t believe there ever were any fish in this creek.”
A local music dealer from Hagerstown made arrangements for a player piano to be at the campsite. After dinner, the camping party danced to popular music on a small wooden platform. Afterwards they sat around the campfire in a large circle listening to Thomas Edison tell tall-tales.
Read More Here: http://dnr.maryland.gov/feature_stories/FamousTravelersPart3.asp
