York County Park Getting $150K Upgrade Courtesy Marcellus $

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Even though there is no Marcellus Shale drilling in York County, PA, residents of the county will get $150,000 of improvements to a county park courtesy of Marcellus Shale drilling. MDN sees at least two or three of these kinds of stories--every week. We ignore most of them, but every now and again we bring you one of them to remind you of what the state is about to lose thanks to the "selfish seven" townships that sued the state to gut the Act 13 Marcellus drilling law--a law that provides for an impact fee that raises over $200 million per year that is distributed throughout the state--some of it in places like York County. Here's the story of the $150,000 upgrade coming to a York County park courtesy the drillers and landowners out of whose pockets the money comes...

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