What’s Next for PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane?
On Monday MDN told you that Pennsylvania’s anti-drilling Democrat Attorney General, Kathleen Kane, is herself under investigation for leaking secret grand jury information to a newspaper (see Impeachment, Arrest Looms for PA AG Kane, Caught Leaking Info). So what happens now to Kane? Does she get arrested (so richly deserved after she’s arrested innocent people in the drilling industry numerous times)? Will she be forced to resign because she can no longer do her job (although one can argue she hasn’t been doing it for the past two years)? Will she be impeached and removed from office? Will nothing happen at all? The Philadelphia Inquirer, right in the center of this controversy (a couple of their reporters have been subpoenaed as receiving the secret info from Kane), delves into what may be next for PA’s in-trouble AG…
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In a huge disappointment, Gov.-elect Tom Wolf has tapped two members of the same anti-drilling “environmental” organization–PennFuture–to head up the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). Both also once worked for Gov. Ed Rendell (Wolf is acting more like Fast Eddie every day). Wolf is tapping John Quigley, who was Secretary of DCNR under Gov. Ed Rendell, to be Secretary at the DEP. Lately, Quigley has hung his hat at PennFuture as its government relations manager. His boss at PennFuture, Cindy Dunn (president of that organization), will become the Secretary of DCNR for Wolf. She served as deputy secretary of the DCNR under Rendell. It’s all kind of incestuous, isn’t it? PennFuture has a history of opposing the Marcellus industry–and now these two Rendell retreads are put in charge of managing the Marcellus industry. Unfortunately, we take that has an bad harbinger of what Wolf plans for Marcellus drilling in the Keystone State. His true colors are starting to show…
It seems no one IS above the law, including Pennsylvania’s Attorney General, Kathleen Kane. She is, you may recall, anti-drilling and has targeted both large and small companies related to the Marcellus industry. She abused her office by filing criminal charges against XTO Energy for an accidental spill that occurred two years before she took office (see 
Antero Resources said on Monday it will lay off more than 250 contract land brokers operating in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The layoffs will not affect any Antero employees–only contract workers (landmen and others) who work to get leases signed, sealed and delivered for future drilling. Antero blames the low price of oil, which causes the price they get for their Marcellus/Utica natural gas liquids to be low, which means they’ll stick to drilling on the half million plus acres they already have under lease…