Corbett says gas drilling - on campus - could save colleges
Gov. Corbett has proposed a novel solution to the higher education funding crisis: drilling for dollars. Not a gas tax, mind you but gas rigs, right on campus
Corbett says gas drilling - on campus - could save colleges
Gov. Corbett has proposed a novel solution to the higher education funding crisis: drilling for dollars.
Not a gas tax, mind you but gas rigs, right on campus.
Corbett told the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees today that schools could address revenue shortfalls by tapping into the riches of the Marcellus Shale beneath their campuses.
Corbett said six campuses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education sit on the lucrative Marcellus shale natural gas formation, The Erie Times reported.
Corbett has proposed slicing some $550 million or fifty percent of state funding for colleges and universities in his 2011-2012 spending plan.
The governor was speaking at Edinboro University as part of a tour of the northwest to promote his budget proposal.
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Just like most on the right believe that we ain'ts gots no use fer no book learnin— cuso20- We can't get mad Corbett does not work for us. When We all get a billion dollar company and we give him money he will listen to us until then we must sit back and watch.
- Gas companies are already Taxed. Just like every other business in PA. They are just not Taxed extra because they are Gas companies. They can always go to Ohio and West Virgina if they are Taxed out of the State.— rolandofghent
- The State doesn't sell the rights to drill, it gives that away with the hope of income coming from the business drilling will generate.....duh!
Meanwhile, who pays for the pollution it generates, we do.— schlippg - Corbett is a creep.— hipdaddy
- To protect clean water, ask your congress person to co-sponsor H.R. 1084/S. 587 (the "FRAC Act") to repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act and require public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluids. During hydraulic fracturing, toxic fluids are injected underground, through drinking water aquifers, at very high pressure. This exemption, known as the "Halliburton Loophole," means that hydraulic fracturing, a common part of the oil and gas production process, is not subject to the same standards as other industries when it comes to protecting underground sources of drinking water. It is one of several environmental loopholes granted to the oil and gas industry. Fracking has already been implicated in reports of drinking water contamination in communities across the country.— schlippg
- @schlippg-
The SDWA only regulated public aquifers and surface water supplies. If you want to protect individual wells, the FRAC Act will do nothing.— palvar - I hope Corbett is getting some really good head from his oil buddies, he's really working overtime for them.— BishopOfPhilly
- Did Corbett miss that episode of Saved by the Bell? Oil got everywhere and it cost money to clean it up.— flavious27
- Doesn't help Temple or other state schools in the SE. Tom Corporate says let them pump oil.— meteo30
- It seems redundant to add my comment! I am in total agreement that this clown is in the pockets of the drillers! I'm ashamed to admit that I voted for this idiot!!— Pete H
- I thought Rendell was crazy, but this guy has him beat...but wait a minute, who profits from these gas companies?? Maybe he's not so dumb after all.— dogman5
- Absolutely ridiculous...— M60tanker
- Corbett - Christie - Big business - PERFECT TOGETHER!— Taxes
- Corbett passes gas for a living— glemery
