Impotent DRBC Killing Farmers in Wayne County, PA with Moratorium

Sadly, there's a large swath of land in northeastern Pennsylvania, in Wayne and surrounding counties (see map below), that has the same disease as all of New York State. It's called a shale drilling moratorium. Why is there a moratorium in Wayne County? Most of Wayne, all of Pike County and parts of a few other NE PA counties are located within the Delaware River Basin Commission's jurisdiction, which has had a ban in place since 2010. The DRBC is controlled by five voting members: the governors of Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey, plus a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It's hard enough to get one state government to sign off on drilling--but four? Including NY?? Good luck with that. An article in yesterday's Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice looks at how the impotent DRBC is killing farmers in NE PA with their moratorium...

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