EQB Votes to Consider Ban on Marcellus Drilling Via Crazy Setbacks

The Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) held a meeting yesterday to consider whether or not to accept a petition by radical green groups, including the Clean Air Council and Environmental Integrity Project, to “study” the issue of increasing setbacks for shale drilling so far that it would ban ALL new Marcellus/Utica drilling in the Keystone State (no exaggeration). The EQB tabled a decision on whether to accept the petition back in April (see PA EQB Votes to Delay Consideration of Marcellus-Banning Setbacks). The hectoring groups kept up the pressure, and with the election now behind us, the Shapiro EQB voted 12-5 yesterday to accept the petition and begin studying the concept of blocking all new shale drilling by increasing setbacks to crazy distances under the (false) pretense of "safety."

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