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Top Dem: Shale boom spreading STDs
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 17, 2011 10:43am |
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| Category | Amusing |
| Author | Tim McNulty |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "We hesitate to think what the coloring book would look like for this one.
The state's economic development head is saying drilling for natural gas under state forests would fix the state's budget problems, a claim (first written about by Capitolwire) that is better recounted here by Don Hopey in the P-G's breaking news section. But what we'd rather talk about are other claims in Pete DeCoursey's original story, namely those by one state legislator sort of equating the natural gas industry with the behavior of a raping and pillaging army.
Rep. Mike Sturla, D-Lancaster, (at right) said cheerleaders for shale exploration are whitewashing the negative impacts of the industry, and not only the environmental ones, but the venereal diseases too. From a Sturla email to Capitolwire:
“Also, aside from building roads so their trucks can get to drill sites and doing a little stream work to mitigate damage from their road building, exactly what are all those things the drillers are doing for the local communities? Patronizing the bars at night? Driving up the cost of rental housing? Spreading sexually transmitted disease amongst the womenfolk? Causing school districts to ask local governments to ban truck traffic on local roads during school bus pick up and drop off times so kids don't get killed? Upgrading emergency preparedness equipment to handle a well blow out? Running compressor stations that have decibel levels equal to a jet engine?...Really community oriented stuff...” |
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