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Rendell Writes Pro-Fracking Op-Ed, Fails to Mention Enormous Conflict of Interests
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/28/2013
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Yesterday, Ed Rendell wrote a big pro-fracking op-ed for the new New York Daily News, in an attempt to sway on-the-fence-and-has-presidential-ambitions Andrew Cuomo to approve fracking in the Empire State. And there was much cheering in gasworld. The Daily News, after learning that Rendell failed to disclose his own ties to the natural gas industry, was less pleased. Rendell is paid $30,000 a year by Element Partners, a private equity firm that invests in natural gas.
“Had I known, I certainly would have disclosed that and conceivably would have made a different judgment on the piece,” Daily News op-ed page editor Josh Greenman
Everybody in Harrisburg is Basically Shilling for the Gas Industry
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/01/2013
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NPR's StateImpact flagged a report yesterday called "Fracking and the Revolving Door in Pennsylvania," and it's pretty breathtaking. To summarize: Many of the powerful former officials who were deciding how the state dealt with the Marcellus Shale goldmine under our feet are now directly connected to the natural gas industry. (This is regular practice in D.C., but people are a little better at diversifying industries over there.) Which helps explain a bipartisan friendliness towards gas corporations that has not infrequently turned a blind eye towards public health concerns. Here are the big points:
"Pennsylvania’s previous three governors have strong ties to the natural
Yay Fracking? PA’s Air Quality Improved From 2008-2011
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/13/2013
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Tougher EPA regulations and lower emissions from natural gas fracking (compared to, say, coal mining) have contributed to cleaner air in the last three years, says the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The lower emissions, DEP says, generate somewhere between $14 billion and $37 billion in health benefits every year. Which helps explain why despite all the bad PR, many liberals are fans of fracking too. [Post-Gazette]
