New Heinz-Funded “Study” on Marcellus Boom/Bust in SWPA
Washington & Jefferson College, located in Washington, PA (Pittsburgh suburb) has a Center for Energy Policy & Management--which makes sense since Washington County, PA sits in the middle of the wet gas Marcellus drilling zone. W&J recently teamed up with the Washington, DC-based Environmental Law Institute (ELI) to study the "boom and bust" cycle that communities face with resource extraction like the Marcellus Shale. The thought was to produce a document--in this case a series of documents--that can guide local and state politicians as they plan for the future. How can, and even *can* a community avoid a "bust" after a huge boom? That's what the documents aim to answer. The only problem is, the ELI seems to tilt anti-drilling, and the entire study was funded by Mamma Teresa Heinz-Kerry and her Heinz Endowments--a strongly anti-drilling organization. So you know where this is headed...
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