PA House Bill 170 Kills New Marcellus Drilling Using Setbacks
Danielle Friel Otten, a radical Democrat representing part of Chester County in the Pennsylvania House (since 2019), is a committed anti-fracker. She ran her campaign on a pledge to ban all fracking in the state (see 15 Candidates Running for PA House/Senate Want to Ban Fracking). Otten recently introduced House Bill (HB) 170 to "expand safety zones around oil and gas wells and related natural gas infrastructure." What a joke! In plain language, the bill increases setback distances from 500 feet of a shale well to 2,500 feet--effectively killing any new shale well drilling anywhere in the state.
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