Amity and Prosperity Quotes

“People were so desperate for health insurance they were willing to take jobs that made others sick.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“Test America’s user manual, there was a section called “Hiding Results”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“the injustice of having to fight for the right to water in the year 2012.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“We thought that the DEP and EPA were doing their jobs. They weren’t.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“Pennsylvania charged oil and gas operators next to nothing in taxes or fees”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“they spied the DEP attorneys laughing and talking with Range’s attorneys and employees.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“Although the DEP’s online resource, eFACTS, was laden with information, the system was impossible to navigate.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“whether a house had water or not was largely a matter of luck.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“The Department of Health told us they didn’t know what to do,” she said.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“Stacey didn’t think that the company would lie if the sludge was truly dangerous,”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“the biocide, named Acrolein, was used to make chemical weapons.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“TO THE IGNORANT MOTHERFUCKERS”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“the common outsider view that Appalachians are victims of forces they don’t understand is naïve and condescending.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“you know that the contamination in this house causes cancer, so keep coming back you fucking losers. I hope you rott with cancer!!! And when your spending all your scrap money I hope you think about what you are taking away from my children. —A note Stacey Haney posted to the door of her abandoned farmhouse on November 3, 2013”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“TO THE IGNORANT MOTHERFUCKERS who keep breaking into my house: it’s bad enough that my children and I have been homeless for 2 and a half years but now I have to deal with this. Your greediness has cost me over $35,000 in damages and the bank has put a forced insurance of $5000 on my mortgage, so as of jan 1, my mortgage payment goes up $500 a month. I hope you feel good about what you have done and I hope”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“these radioactive tracers were allegedly so harmless they could be used at the top of the watershed a few hundred feet from people’s homes; on the other, they were so dangerous that disclosing information about them was a threat to American national security. A terrorist might use such material to build a dirty bomb, the DEP responded to the Smiths in an affidavit. An amount as small as “a pencil eraser” could cause a radioactive cloud that endangered people and heightened their risk of cancer.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“peer-reviewed health study that established a correlation between birth defects and babies born within a half-mile radius of a well site, she felt that she’d done the right thing.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

“We have several former psy-ops folks that work for us at Range because they’re very comfortable in dealing with localized issues and local governments,” he said. “Psy-ops” refers to psychological operations, a counterinsurgency tactic, which the Department of Defense defines for use exclusively outside of the United States. According to Pitzarella, Range was employing these methods in Pennsylvania. “Really all they do is spend most of their time helping folks develop local ordinances and things like that,” he said. “But very much having that understanding of psy-ops in the army and the Middle East has applied very helpfully here for us in Pennsylvania.”
― Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America