Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel

Last week we told you about a group of brainwashed children at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), who were behaving like spoiled rotten brats, demanding UPenn divest from any company with a whiff of oil or natural gas about it (see Brainwashed Kids Pressure UPenn to Divest All Fossil Energy Cos.). Apparently, the selfish brats weren’t getting enough attention, so they went militant. A group of 75 or so Fossil Free Penn students rushed onto the football field during half-time on Saturday, holding up the restart of the UPenn vs. Yale game (a homecoming game!) by over an hour. The athletes and fans were not amused. People in the bleachers chanted, “Get off the field!” and booed the protesters.
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CNN is a well-known fake news purveyor. We don’t trust a thing CNN “reports” as news. So we were a bit conflicted to see what appears to be a pretty fair and balanced story that calls out Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who is running for the U.S. Senate, for his openly contradictory statements on whether or not he supports fracking. CNN appears to somehow have swerved into reporting the truth–some real, honest-to-God journalism. Call it a random act of journalism on the part of CNN to publish an article that quotes Fetterman’s openly contradictory statements.
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There are eight so-called Ivy League institutions: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. At this point, most of them have made moves to divest their massive endowments from any company that is even remotely connected to the fossil energy industry. One of them has not, yet: the University of Pennsylvania. A group of brainwashed children at UPenn are behaving like spoiled rotten brats, demanding UPenn divest from any company with a whiff of oil or natural gas about it. They even want the school to ban fossil energy companies from recruiting on campus (no free speech at UPenn).
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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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