Political Influence

June 7, 2012

Okla. Billionaire’s Meltdown Could Mean More Pa. Fracking

“The world’s biggest fracker” plans to save itself by shifting from “a strategy of asset capture to a strategy of asset harvest.”
By Will Bunch and Daily News Staff Writer, Philly.com, June 6, 2012

OK, SO THINGS aren’t looking so

February 5, 2012

Josh Fox Arrested at Hearing on Fracking

“Gasland” Director Josh Fox Arrested at Congressional Hearing on Natural Gas Fracking
By Democracy Now, February 2, 2012

The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox was handcuffed and arrested Wednesday as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the controversial …

August 4, 2010

Ridge's Firms to Get $900,000 for Pushing Marcellus Drilling

Ridge’s firms to get $900,000 for pushing Marcellus drilling
By Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Monday, August 02, 2010

HARRISBURG — Former Gov. Tom Ridge and a team of other officials at his two consulting firms will be paid $900,000 for …

July 25, 2010

Forum Discusses Gas Industry Money Impact on State Politics

Forum discusses gas industry money impact on state politics
By Charles Schillinger (Staff Writer), The Times-Tribune, July 23, 2010

A hundred people gasped in anger and shock as Dimock Twp. resident Craig Sautner raised a milk jug of his brown …

June 1, 2010

Gas Pains

Pennsylvania, reeling from a budget crisis, exploits—at any and all costs—what might be the largest U.S. natural gas deposit. The results could be disastrous.
By Ted Williams, Audubon Magazine

Earth hadn’t seen its first dinosaur when an enormous river system …

May 11, 2010

Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets

 Alex Kaplan and James Brownin, Common Cause Pennsylvania

The Campaign Contributions & Lobbying Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in Pennsylvania

Introduction 
Pennsylvania has often been described as the “Wild West” of campaign financing. Ours is one of only eleven …

May 28, 2009

Natural Gas Politics

Natural Gas Politics
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, May 26, 2009, 8:14 a.m.

Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean water laws, Congress is having second thoughts about …

May 27, 2009

"Clean" Energy and Poisoned Water

“Clean” Energy and Poisoned Water
by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com, Monday 25 May 2009

In the musical “Urinetown,” a severe drought leaves the dwindling supplies of clean water in the hands of a corporation called Urine Good Company. Urine Good Company …

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