Pennsylvania's Republican governor has just authorized fracking on college campuses

[Report1212]

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]

1. Maybe it'll be called the Paterno Frack?

[Kolesar]

2. Democratic candidates should run against this issue

...if they are against fracking public land and want to win.

[HopeHoops]

3. It's worse than that. The frackers got a good ROI on buying Corbett. ANY land can be taken.

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]

5. And he's still shielding them from taxes

Or is that just shale?

[HopeHoops]

6. It's my understanding that the pipeline land would not be subject to property taxes.

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).

[mnhtnbb]

4. OMG. That's horrendous.