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Court Denies Drilling Industry, Legislators Motion To Intervene In Drilling Law Challenge
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Senior Commonwealth Court Judge Keith Quigley denied the petition by representatives from the gas drilling industry and legislators to intervene in a legal challenge to Act 13 Marcellus Shale law, according to the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and seven municipalities who filed the challenge.
In his ruling, Judge Quigley found that both the industry and the legislators were already being adequately represented by the State Attorney General and documents regarding the passage of the legislation already in the legislative history created during the passage of the law.
“This is an important ruling by Judge Quigley, he is honoring the importance of keeping the focus on the facts and the law when it comes to Act 13 rather than allowing the challenge to turn into a drawn out media circus filled with the obfuscation and the misrepresentation the gas drillers are attempting to bring to the action,” said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper and plaintiff in the legal action.
“As for the PA legislators, giving them two bites at the apple on this legislation would simply be adding insult to injury against the public these legislators have already so damaged with their wholesale handover to the gas drillers of the health, safety and quality of our Pennsylvania communities, history and environments,” van Rossum added.
“The interests of the gas drilling industry are adequately represented by the Commonwealth," said Jordan Yeager, Esq., representing the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Nockamixon Township and Yardley Borough. "To suggest that the gas industry isn’t adequately represented by the government is like arguing that Phillies fans aren’t adequately represented at Citizens Bank Park or the Pittsburgh Steelers fans are not adequately represented at Heinz Field. The gas drillers are fully enmeshed in our state government and the state government can represent them just fine."
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