Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses 208
PolygamousRanchKid writes with this news from MotherJones: "Last year, when Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett suggested offsetting college tuition fees by leasing parts of state-owned college campuses to natural gas drillers, more than a few Pennsylvanians were left blinking and rubbing their eyes. But it was no idle threat: After quietly moving through the state Senate and House, this week the governor signed into law a bill that opens up 14 of the state's public universities to fracking, oil drilling, and coal mining on campus. Environmentalists and educators are concerned that fracking and other resource exploitation on campus could leave students directly exposed to harms like explosions, water contamination, and air pollution."
How big are the campuses anyways? (Score:2, Insightful)
seriously, How big of an area is the campus in any city, county ? why the fuck would the mining companies even be interested? this sounds like something a mining lobbyist mentioned as a joke and the politician took seriously.
Think of the Children! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Learn to spin news like this... (Score:2, Insightful)
How about WILL leave students exposed to harm? This is what things look like with right wing lunatics in control.
Everybody in America who cares about their health should make it a point to live as far away from exploitable natural resources as possible, ...
Or live in a sensible state? New York State (just north of Pennsylvania) does not allow any of the new style fracking, it's still under study and will be very heavily regulated if it is eventually allowed. The same shale gas fields in PA also extend to southern NY.
What's the price? We have higher state taxes in NY, well worth it in many cases.
Re:Learn to spin news like this... (Score:5, Insightful)
Everybody in America who cares about their health should make it a point to live as far away from exploitable natural resources as possible
I see you've chosen to live as far away from the natural resource of rationality as you can.
In third world countries, living near resources should be a boon--a ticket out of poverty. What usually happens though is some multinational corporation comes in, aided by a corrupt government
There we go. Complaining about tea partiers when the real problems you complain about are the same problems that the tea partiers are complaining about.
Advocating for no government as a solution for a corrupt government makes about as much sense as proposing decapitation to cure a headache.
The tea partiers are idiots who are going to solve government corruption by making it legal.