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JPZenger

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Thu Jan 29, 2015, 11:30 AM Jan 2015

Wolf Halting Corbett's plan to frack under PA. State Parks, & to expand fracking under State Forests

http://readingeagle.com/news/article/wolf-to-sign-order-restoring-ban-on-new-drilling-leases

Excerpt:

"Gov. Tom Wolf plans to sign an executive order ending a short-lived effort by his predecessor to expand the extraction of natural gas from rock buried deep below Pennsylvania's state parks and forests, his office said Wednesday.

Following through on a campaign pledge, Wolf will sign the order restoring a moratorium on new drilling leases involving public lands on Thursday at Benjamin Rush State Park in northeast Philadelphia.

It will supersede an order that Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed in May and reinstate the ban that former Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, instituted in 2010. Environmentalists praised the action, saying it reflects the new Democratic governor's support for strong environmental regulation."


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Wolf Halting Corbett's plan to frack under PA. State Parks, & to expand fracking under State Forests (Original Post) JPZenger Jan 2015 OP
How about we frack under his house? NV Whino Jan 2015 #1
All Church land should also be opened up for fracking, God must have put lots there. Don' t test. Have faith. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #2
What a good idea! NV Whino Jan 2015 #3

Fred Sanders

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2. All Church land should also be opened up for fracking, God must have put lots there. Don' t test. Have faith.
Thu Jan 29, 2015, 12:25 PM
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