From the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE:
For several years, energy companies that drill for natural gas in Pennsylvania have been speaking out against Gov. Ed Rendell’s plan to slap an “extraction tax” on the gas they will pump from deep underground…
“The natural gas industry made $2.85 million in campaign contributions to Pennsylvania candidates (and) political action committees between Jan. 1, 2001, and March 29, 2010,” said Common Cause/Pennsylvania Director Barry Kauffman, who was joined by officials from the League of Women Voters, Penn Future and the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a liberal group.
Most of the big recipients of the gas industry largesse were politicians from Western Pennsylvania. Topping the list was Attorney General Tom Corbett of Shaler, the leading Republican candidate for governor in Tuesday’s primary, at $361,000, with 93 percent of that money coming since January 2008…
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