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JPZenger

(6,819 posts) Fri Mar 8, 2013, 02:34 PM Mar 2013

Good Public Radio Story on Whether PA. Municipalities Will be Allowed to Regulate Fracking Locations

http://ssl.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/new-petro-state/fracking-fields-fight-over-who-regulates

It was recently on public radio's Marketplace program. Any day, the State Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether a State law is valid that restricted the authority of local governments to regulate the locations of fracking wells, gas compressor stations and other facilities.

The appellate court overturned the law.

The link is to good story about the issue, and about how it is affecting people in southwestern PA.

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Good Public Radio Story on Whether PA. Municipalities Will be Allowed to Regulate Fracking Locations (Original Post) JPZenger Mar 2013 OP

Mr. Pitzarella makes me laugh. grntuscarora Mar 2013 #1

Ah yes, Matt Pitzarella...the guy who called opposition to fracking an "insurgency." blue neen Mar 2013 #2

I have heard that same line in the OH media. Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #3

grntuscarora

(1,249 posts)

1. Mr. Pitzarella makes me laugh.

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 05:17 PM

Mar 2013

"The drilling company that first came here to lease land is Range Resources. Spokesman Matt Pitzarella attributes any problems to "early days." Bumpy start.
"Everything always evolves," Pitzarella says. "And it always improves. And through repetition, all of the engaged parties -- including the industry -- gets better at what it is that we do."'

They're not getting better. 553 Range wells in PA and 187 violations from 2008 to 2012. $2,008,925 in fines. http://www.cleanwateraction.org/page/range-resources

And imagine all the additional violations that go unrecorded by a sympathetic Corbett administration.

These tools lie for a living.

blue neen

(12,328 posts)

2. Ah yes, Matt Pitzarella...the guy who called opposition to fracking an "insurgency."

Reply to grntuscarora (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 07:14 PM

Mar 2013

He's quite a gem.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

3. I have heard that same line in the OH media.

Reply to grntuscarora (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 07:31 PM

Mar 2013

The drillers are telling the people in OH that they made their mistakes in PA and have learned from them.

Yeah, right. I trust these drillers as far as I can throw a refrigerator. Well, maybe less.

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