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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPennsylvania's Republican governor has just authorized fracking on college campuses
Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett (R-PA) has a lot to thank the oil and gas industry for. It gave him $1,277,550 during his 2010 run for governor, and has given him over $150,000 since then.
This week, Corbett gave the industry a gift in return. He signed into law the Indigenous Mineral Resource Development Act, which will allow the state to make and execute contracts allowing for the mining or removal of coal, oil, natural gas, coal bed methane and limestone found in or beneath land owned by the state or state system of higher education.
Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/oil-gas-industry-gives-pennsylvania-governor-1000000-he-authorizes-fracking-on-college-campuses/
byeya
(2,842 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)...if they are against fracking public land and want to win.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)There's a 200' buffer, but the caveat is that if there's no way to avoid giving 200', they can take whatever land they want by eminent domain. That basically means that the entire state is free range for the frackers and their pipelines. Corbett's evil on all levels.
Report1212
(661 posts)Or is that just shale?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)What's really disturbing about the pipeline isn't even that it can go through residential areas. It means clear-cutting a frightening amount of pristine habitat and would cross on the order of 100 watersheds. Oh, but we can TRUST the fracking companies, right? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).