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The Lycoming County Planning Commission approved the company's land development plans for the pump station project in mid-February 2012. A news story about the commission's action was the first residents said they knew of the plans. Later, a letter to residents stated the developer would provide residents with a $2,500 incentive payment if they moved by April 1, and a $1,500 payment if they moved by May 1.<ref>David Thompson, [http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/575944/32-unit-village-no-more.html?nav=5011 "32-unit village no more,"] Williamsport Sun-Gazette, March 18, 2012.</ref>
When six of the households were unable to move because of the financial burden, members of the occupy movement and others stepped in to set up a resistance camp. The campaign lasted two weeks during which activists set up a functioning community. On June 12, 2012, residents received notice from Aqua America that excavation at the mobile home park would begin that day and that people would have to leave or risk arrest. Huffmaster Crisis Response, which activists were told was hired by Aqua America, was sent in to remove them.<ref>Sara Jerving, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/11588 "Police Raid Anti-Fracking Encampment in Pennsylvania,"] PR Watch, June 15, 2012.</ref>
Employment in the larger logging and mining industry that includes shale gas fell 7.7 percent from 2014 year ago to 35,000 in October 2015.<ref>David Conti and Tory N. Parrish, [http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-gas-business-decline-20151213-story.html "Fracking decline slows business in shale towns,"] Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 15, 2012.</ref>
