Gas Drilling Moratorium for Bucks, Montgomery Counties

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2. I guess you're right. What a way to make legislation.

It's sickening to me, even though I live in the area supposedly under the new moratorium. What hypocrisy. They knew that if the wealthier areas got wind of the fact that they were going to be treated as sacrifice zones (just like the rest of the state) there would be hell to pay.

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But while the moratorium exempts Bucks and the other areas in the South Newark Basin from drilling for now, other parts of the state still must comply with Act 13. Some characterized it as a move by legislators in a wealthy part of the state to protect their backyards, while leaving other Pennsylvanians unprotected.

"Where was our study? Where was our six years?" Democratic Rep. Jesse White was quoted as saying in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. "What makes Bucks and Montgomery [counties] so special?"

White represents part of Washington County, on the far western Pennsylvania border, an area that hosts "a significant amount of Marcellus Shale drilling," according to the Pittsburgh newspaper.

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