Dana residents to hear status of Ernie Pyle home Danville Commercial News
DANA, Ind. — The Ernie Pyle Submit Museum remains closed, and the state plans to auction the site if someone does not step up and take posession.
The five-colleague Friends of Ernie Pyle Board will explain the situation to the community Thursday night.
“We have to take it from the state,” said Phil Hess, one of the trustees. “We demand to discuss itwith the county, township and town — whoever is willing.”
The site memorializes the life of Pyle, a war newspaperman, and his Pulitzer Prize winning work documenting the everyday lives of soldiers during World War II.
Pyle was born and raised in Dana. At the climax of his popularity, his column was carried by hundreds of newspapers. He was killed by a Japanese machine-gunner on the island of Okinawa in 1945.
The Friends of Ernie Pyle lettered in May that its appeal to have the Department of Natural Resources decision to close the site overturned was rejected.
State Rep. Jeff Pyle Weighs In on Natural Gas Tax The Kittanning Paper
During a teleconference held Tuesday evening involving 230 people, Circumstances Representative Jeff Pyle discussed the possible enactment of a severance tax on natural gas.
According to Pyle, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is proposing a deflated five percent severance tax on the value of the gas at the wellhead. “That’s not only Marcellus Gas; that’s shallow wells also,” said Pyle. “So, if you’re favoured to have one of those farms that has gas on that you inherited from grandpa or something like that, this is going to apply to you too.”
Drilling the Marcellus Shale formation includes drilling two-and-a-half times deeper than unwritten shallow wells and tapping into the Marcellus Shale layer which stretches under most of West Virginia, eastern Ohio, western and northern Pennsylvania, and southern New York. “From there, we now have the skill to turn the bore-head of the drill sideways, and go laterally for great, great distances,” said Pyle. “What they do, then, is they uproot the whole drill out, and they shoot it with high-pressure water mixed with sand. Now, the water coming out of there is not the cleanest, and it requires cleanup before we can put that back into any pond, streamlet, creek, or lake. What we have in place, as a safeguard, is the DEP (Department of Environmental Protection). The DEP heavily regulates these guys, sometimes a hardly ever too heavily for me, but it is something we’ve got to look at. We don’t want them dumping dirty water into our trout streams. Inspection is key, and we do have standards that we hold the drillers to. On the other hand, if we let the Marcellus drillers pass us by, I say it will be 25 to 30 years before they come back. States like Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are upright laying out the welcome mat for these guys, and it’s too easy to go to those states and not come here. I think that kind of leaves our homeowners and steading owners out in the cold for realizing these great benefits.”
