In summer, the dissected shale and sandstone plateau, eroded by rivers and rain, can resemble the English countryside, veined with winding roads, lined with trees: oak, ash, maple, beech, hemlock and pine. There are hay bales in the fields below shingle built farmhouses, some with American flags draped over the porch.
Rachel Farnelli rides on a swing in her backyard that overlooks the Gesford Number 3 natural gas well in Dimock, Pennsylvania Photograph: Tim Shaffer/REUTERS Top left: Craig and Julie Sautner (third and fourth from left) attend a billboard press conference in South Montrose, Pennsylvania. The billboard lists some of the chemicals found in their drinking water Above: An image from the documentary Gasland shows a local's tap water being set on fire
