Gov. Wolf Promotes Ban on Using PA NatGas by Private Property Owners

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Last week MDN reported that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, in a final act of thumbing his nose at the prolific Marcellus industry in his own state, vetoed a bill, Senate Bill (SB) 275, that would have prohibited municipalities from banning the use of natural gas (see Parting Swipe at Marcellus – Gov. Wolf Vetoes Bill Blocking Gas Bans). Wolf spun the veto as the protection of towns and their right to self-determination, establishing “local control.” It is, in fact, the opposite. Wolf is promoting the ability of elites and bureaucrats to deny the rights of individual property owners to choose their own forms of energy. Wolf didn’t protect rights, he took them away.

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