Martians Give Conservative British MP a Tour of PA Fracking

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My Favorite MartianThe United Kingdom (as in Merry Old England) is finally, seriously, considering permits to allow shale fracking in the country. It's taken a long time, and it's certainly not a done deal yet. But it's getting much closer. A Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from a district in the north of England likely to see shale drilling when/if it happens recently traveled 3,500 miles to visit Pennsylvania, to see the effects of shale drilling firsthand. We applaud the MP's efforts to see it up close. Unfortunately, Conservatives in the UK are more like RINOs here--there really aren't all that many true conservatives in the socialistic UK. So when our "Conservative" MP came calling, one of the "expert" groups he took a tour with was the nutty Martians, a small group of anti-drillers in Butler County called the Mars Parent Group (see MDN's list of Martian stories here). Incredibly, even after receiving a manure spreader full of lies from the Martians, our Conservative MP is still keeping an open mind about fracking back home...

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