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FRACKTRACK: Corbett did not repeal Rendell's moratorium on drilling in state parks last week -- but he plans to
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FRACKTRACK: Corbett did not repeal Rendell's moratorium on drilling in state parks last week -- but he plans to
So, for those of you who were curious about how Governor Tom Corbett plans to proceed with regard to the Rendell Administration's moratorium on Marcellus Shale drilling in certain state parks and forests, you now have something close to concrete information. This is from an AP story published Tuesday:
Calling it redundant, the Corbett administration on Saturday killed the policy, which had been written in October under former Gov. Ed Rendell.
But that's misleading: Corbet hasn't repealed October's much-discussed moratorium on Marcellus Shale drilling in certain state parks and forests; he moved "to quietly rescind a recent state policy to minimize the impact of natural gas drilling on public state park and state forest land where the state doesn't own subsurface mineral rights drew considerable and perhaps unwanted attention." Which is a slightly different policy.
Does that clarify things for you? Even if it doesn't, the distinction between the two similar policies -- and between "repeal" and "quietly rescind" -- might not even matter.
In yesterday's Inquirer, a Corbet spokesman said the administration wants to get rid of the moratorium, too:
Spokesman Kevin Harley said the governor believes there should be drilling on publicly held lands, and called former Gov. Ed Rendell's moratorium a political move made on the heels of the legislature's failure to enact a tax on natural gas extracted from the Marcellus Shale formation.
So if you're planning on doing any camping in Pa. state parks, now may be the time to do it.
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For more background, check out Isaiah Thompson's cover story about Ed Rendell's "plot to pillage Pennsylvania's forests, consequences be damned," and, more recently, his post about why the moratorium is mostly meaningless anyway.
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