Newtown Quaker Meeting to Hear Expert on Fracking and Natural Gas

Ross
Blair to Discuss Natural Gas and Fracking at Newtown
Quaker Meeting

Ross Blair, National Sales Manager of Rain For
Rent and a member of Newtown Quaker Meeting, will speak about Natural Gas and
the Practice of Fracking on Sunday, January 12, at 9:45 a.m. at the Newtown
Friends Meetinghouse, 219 Court Street. http://www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org The public is
invited.

Ross
Blair directs a team at Rain For Rent of 210 Sales Representatives and 7
Regional Sales Managers covering 60 company branches throughout the
USA
and 1 in Canada.

Rain for Rent is a national company specializing in “complete liquid
handling solutions” since 1934. It
originally provided irrigation services and now also designs and installs
systems such as water filtration systems, natural gas fracking systems, and
dewatering systems “tailored for a specific industry job site, from the simplest
liquid-handling solution to the most complex, large-flow bypass pumping job.”

Rain for Rent has huge
portable pumps for emergencies like floods and hurricanes and they are often among the first
responders.
Within 48 hours after Hurricane Sandy hit Northern
New Jersey
and New
York City
a little over one year ago, Ross Blair had 87 trained personnel from all over
the country on the job. The Emergency Response Unit of Rain for Rent flew in 75
specialists to supplement the 12 people working at the
Linden,
NJ
branch office to pump flood waters out of tunnels and facilitates in
New
York City.

Rain
For Rent also specializes in hydraulic
fracturing, or fracking, which plays an increasingly important – and somewhat
controversial -- role in the development of
America's
natural gas resources. It is estimated that over one million wells have been
hydraulically fractured in the United
States
since the first well in the late 1940s.

Studies estimate that up to 80 percent of natural gas
wells drilled in the
next decade will require hydraulic fracturing to properly complete well setup,
with horizontal drilling as a key component in the hydraulic fracturing
process.

Natural
gas has been a major reason why the US
is now an energy exporter, but questions linger in some local communities over
proper regulations, the lack of requirements requiring disclosure of chemical
additives to water used by some fracturing companies, extraction fees or taxes,
and appropriate environmental protections.

Ross Blair, a native
of Scotland, lives in Newtown with his wife, Elizabeth Hurst, their son Baxter
Hurst-Blair, a student at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and
Performing Arts, and their daughter, Dixie'drea Hurst-Blair a student at Newtown
Friends School.

Following
the presentation, there will be Meeting for Worship at 11
a.m.
with coffee and snacks served afterwards in the Gathering Room. Child Care is provided and the public is
welcome at all events.