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There is no question that Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is anti-Marcellus Shale drilling. NO QUESTION. And if you look at his public statements, as reported by the official mouthpiece of the Democrat left (PBS), his own statements on the gubernatorial campaign trail indicate Shapiro will allow VERY little new drilling in the Marcellus. Most new permits will be wiped out by a Shapiro DEP that will enforce huge new setbacks ("no drill zones"), institute onerous new regulations of tiny pipelines with almost no pressure in them (very expensive), and grant “comprehensive health responses” to anyone living near fracked wells (meaning anyone with a faux health claim is to be believed and awarded big money from the company that drilled the well). Our back-of-the-envelop calculation is you can expect perhaps a 75% decrease in the number of new permits issued from current levels in a Josh Shapiro administration. And the level of permits we see now is already WAY down in number (see the chart on the left).
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