Jobs, jobs, jobs. A green economy can bring them on.
That was one focus of a sustainability forum Friday led by Mayor Nutter, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira.
Nutter cited the replacement of 85,000 incandescent traffic signals with LEDs in the last year. Besides saving the city $1 million a year on energy costs, “someone had to make them, and someone had to install them. . . . It is about putting people to work.”
But outside the event, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, protesters focused on water and natural gas drilling. Knowing Jackson was inside, they demanded that the EPA send water to Dimock, Susquehanna County, where state officials said wells were fouled by drilling a few years ago.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection had required the drilling company, Cabot Oil Gas, to provide water for about a dozen homes, but it found last October that the company could stop. The shipments ceased Dec. 1.
The families say tests show their water is still fouled and have appealed the action.
The EPA began to investigate, and Dimock resident Craig Sautner said that a federal official told his wife,
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