The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone

Photographs from The End of Country
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Narrow country roads more suited to tractors and rusting pickup trucks are quickly buckling under the weight of thousands of tons of heavy drilling equipment and the trucks needed to ferry it all.A Cabot drill pad in Springville Township, Susquehanna County.The heavy trucks and other equipment necessary for the drilling industry are tearing up the roads of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Barns and gas drilling rigs have become familiar pairs throughout the Marcellus Shale region.A drilling rig in Meshoppen, Wyoming County. Once the rig is in place, the work of extracting the gas goes on around the clock.Farm property along a winding country road near West Nicholson in Northeast Pennsylvania.