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Fracking became a hot issue after the Democratic State Committee
voted 118-81 for a statewide moratorium on fracking. Following the June
15 vote, former Democrat Governor Ed Rendell told the Patriot-News
newspaper the resolution was “very ill-advised.”
Rendell asserted that John Hanger and
Kathleen McGinty, both former secretaries of the state Department of
Environmental Protection, are the state’s “biggest environmentalists”
and noted “both approved of fracking, permitted it and moved to put in
place changes that have dramatically reformed the fracking process.”
The bottom line is the race for the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial
nomination will be anything but boring. Most state’s environmental
groups passionately oppose fracking while many labor unions and business
groups support it with enthusiasm. Urban area voters, many concerned
about possibility of drilling in their backyard, are generally opposed,
but many rural voters who profited from royalties and leases support it.
My hunch: the mineral owners are in deep trouble. Class warfare. Demagoguery. The haves vs have-nots. Fear-mongering. Dimock.
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