Fracking Saboteur Sentenced to 6 Months. 13 Feb

As far as we can tell, there’s been no clear rea­son expressed about why he did it.

As far as we can tell, there’s been no clear rea­son expressed about why he did it. But does there real­ly need to be? Any­one who risks their free­dom to attack a frack­ing site in the Mar­cel­lus Shale, and in one evening suc­ceeds at delay­ing oper­a­tions for three months, is a hero to all who drink water and hate ener­gy cor­po­ra­tions.

Tan­ner Long, 21, from the Trout Run area of Lycoming Coun­ty, PA, alleged­ly admit­ted to an ambi­tious act of van­dal­ism on August 30, 2012, and was sen­tenced in late-Jan­u­ary to six months of prison (in a “coun­ty pre-release cen­ter”) and five years pro­ba­tion.

The sto­ry was not heav­i­ly report­ed out­side the local area, but you can check out a short news clip here, which includes heart warm­ing images of over­turned bull­doz­ers at a trashed frack­ing site on pub­lic land. You can also send him a let­ter here for the time being:

Tan­ner J. Long #3625
Lycoming Coun­ty Prison
277 West Third Street
Williamsport, PA 17701

What we know of the sto­ry: In Sep­tem­ber 2012, a $10,000 reward was offered by Brubach­er Ener­gy Ser­vices for any infor­ma­tion lead­ing to the arrest and con­vic­tion of who­ev­er van­dal­ized con­struc­tion equip­ment in Loy­al­sock State For­est. 

Accord­ing to Myron Brubach­er, an own­er of the Lan­cast­er Coun­ty company.”They basi­cal­ly cut the trees to block access to the road where our equip­ment was locat­ed.”

The van­dals, who had some­how acquired keys, used pieces of equip­ment to dam­age oth­er pieces of equip­ment. In total, the com­pa­ny report­ed $120,000 in dam­ages.

“They rolled sev­er­al pieces, one of our machines was rolled over on its side. They did a lot of dam­age,” Brubach­er said. “It took three months to repair the dam­age.”

He added that the com­pa­ny has increased secu­ri­ty since the van­dal­ism.

Lycoming Coun­ty Judge Nan­cy L. Butts  told Long to “grow up.” While we at the EF! Newswire could see  the poten­tial for fla­grant Bart Simp­son-inspired imma­tu­ri­ty when fac­ing off with some­one named Judge Butts, her hon­or was appar­ent­ly refer­ring to Long’s hero­ic van­dal­ism being imma­ture (as opposed any per­son­al insult  to Butts that one may have eas­i­ly been tempt­ed to utter, as we were.)

While three oth­ers report­ed­ly watched on the night of Aug. 30, Long start­ed heavy equip­ment belong­ing to Brubach­er Ener­gy, of Bow­mans­ville, at a well site off Route 14 north of Trout Run.