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In reply to the discussion: If you're pro-barely-regulated fracking, McGinty's your gal!!! [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)1. McGinty calls toxic fracking chemicals the "secret sauce" of economic growth
Missing Tom Corbett? Well, here's Katie McGinty! & her fracking husband too!
In January 2014, McGinty called fracking the secret sauce of economic growth (McGinty: Gas is part of secret sauce to drive economic growth -NPR).http://energyjusticesummer.org/candidate-katie-mcginty-the-environmentalist-for-fracking-fact-sheet/
The McGinty DEP permitted 586 Marcellus Shale wells across PA, according to the DEP Permit Report. (PA DEP Permit Report) (interactive map, click Map of Latitude)Screen shot 2015-07-24 at 3.30.40 PM
McGinty was reprimanded by the state Ethics Commission for giving the pro-fracking Pennsylvania Environmental Council $2.8 million in state grants while her husband, Karl Hausker, was employed as a consultant there. In 2009, the Supreme Court upheld an Ethics Commission ruling saying Cabinet secretaries in the future should have no role in grants that benefit spouses. (Philly native Katie McGinty might be the political surprise of 2014 -Philadelphia Inquirer)
The PR firm McGinty hired to do communications for her gubernatorial campaign is SKDKnickerbocker, who also represents TransCanada, owner of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. From 2007-2013, her husband Karl Hausker was a vice president at ICM International, which was hired by the State Department to perform the environmental review of KXL and determined it would have no significant impact on the environment. (Frackings Myriad Ties to Flawed State Dept Keystone XL Environmental Review -DeSmogBlog)
- McGintys husband, Karl Hauskers former firm, ICM International, wrote a report for the American Petroleum Institute praising shale gas exports. (Ties That Bind: Ernest Moniz, Keystone XL Contractor, American Petroleum Institute and Fracked Gas Exports DeSmogBlog)
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Hi! Joe lost by only 2 percent in a year when GOP was sweeping Congressional races.
Divernan
Apr 2016
#16
Watch: River Explodes Into Flames From Methane Coming From Nearby Fracking Sites
L. Coyote
Apr 2016
#18
I grew up in Greene County, that secret sauce destroyed Dunkard Creek!
yortsed snacilbuper
Apr 2016
#22