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Environment & Energy

Wicked Blue

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4. What about the cost of ruining people's private land?

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 09:08 AM

Feb 2021

Pennsylvania's insane mineral rights laws allow these frackers to use eminent domain to drill on people's land. I know someone in Butler who saved for years to buy some rural land for retirement. The frackers ruined his land and polluted it. Now he's left with a useless damaged piece of land that nobody else will buy. And where is he going to go, now that he's retiring?

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