AG Kathleen Kane’s Defense: Dirty Old Men are Out to Get Me!
On Monday MDN told you that Kathleen Kane, Pennsylvania’s anti-drilling Attorney General, had been arrested and fingerprinted on a felony charge of perjury, plus various misdemeanor charges (see PA’s Anti-Drilling AG Kathleen Kane Arrested, Fingerprinted). We told you the charges against Kane have nothing to do with the Marcellus industry that she so zealously persecutes, but we’ll be darned if the Marcellus, in a roundabout way, hasn’t crept into this ongoing saga. Yesterday Kane held a press conference where she a) avoided responding to or commenting on the very serious charges against her, and b) instead claimed people are out to get her because of a case her office prosecuted last year in which she found, in going over old emails from before she took office, that some state employees swapped pornographic emails using government computers. That case that led to the resignation of a state Supreme Court judge and also the resignation of then-Secretary of the Dept. of Environmental Protection Chris Abruzzo (see PA DEP Sec. Chris Abruzzo Resigns Following Porn Email Scandal). Abruzzo was liked by the Marcellus industry. Kane’s performance yesterday was, frankly, sad and somewhat bizarre. It appears the pressure is causing her to self-destruct right before our eyes. Her “defense” was not a denial that she leaked privileged information to a reporter in an act of revenge against a subordinate (something a grand jury indicted her for)–but that dirty old men are mad that she snooped through their emails, and now they’re out to get her. Kane’s solution? Release the “filthy” emails to distract everyone from her own crimes…
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If you’re a Big Green group, like THE Delaware Riverkeeper, you have millions of dollars to a) launch lawsuits against the natural gas industry, and b) buy yourself research studies that support your twisted viewpoints. It is the latter that happened yesterday. CNA, a not-for-profit organization once called the Center for Naval Analyses, sells itself to the highest bidder (the oldest profession in the world). Most recently they sold themselves to THE Delaware Riverkeeper (we certainly hope they used protection). CNA and THE Delaware Riverkeeper held a press briefing yesterday to release a “study” by CNA titled “The Potential Environmental Impacts of Fracking in the Delaware River Basin” (full copy below). What did the “researchers” at CNA, which is based in Arlington, VA just outside the DC orbit, find? If the moratorium is lifted and shale drilling is allowed in the Delaware River Basin–essentially Wayne and Pike counties in Pennsylvania–CNA says it will lead to “land cover disturbance” in “core forest areas”, extreme water withdrawals from poor little creeks and streams, nasty wastewater polluting everything, erosion everywhere, multiple compressor stations and untold ill health impacts for 75,000 people who live close to all of this mess. See what $320,444 (the actual cost of this study) can buy you? We hope it felt good for Riverkeeper…
Ever hear the phrase, “diggin’ deep”? That’s what anti-drillers are doing in New Hampshire with their opposition to a pipeline slated to come through their area in Hillsborough County. As plans for Kinder Morgan’s $6 billion Northeast Energy Direct (NED) pipeline project that will stretch from Pennsylvania through New York into Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and back into Massachusetts near Boston progress, more and more articles appear in newspapers, like the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, attempting to convince people the pipeline is from Satan himself. In fact, according to the latest article, NED may just be from Satan! The Ledger-Transcript claims the pipeline, if it follows the same route as already-built high voltage electric lines, would cut through a hay field that (151 years ago) used to be a potato field and is the site of a miracle of importance to Seventh-Day Adventists…
Another anti-pipeline screed from PBS reporter Susan Phillips at the taxpayer-funded StateImpact Pennsylvania website. This is another propaganda piece in a series meant to smear the superb safety record of pipelines, which happen to be the safest form of transportation on earth (see