SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: …The governor expressed his anger in a letter to the Delaware River Basin Commission over its decision three years ago to put drilling on hold until it adopts its own environmental regulations.
“Operators interested in developing natural gas have closed offices and laid off employees,” the governor wrote, “lease payments have been withheld; force majeure clauses in contracts have been exercised and communities have watched their neighbors outside the basin benefit tremendously.”
The governor addressed the letter, dated Thursday, to Carol R. Collier, the commission’s executive director, although action by the commission is driven by its voting members who are, in addition to Mr. Corbett, the governors of New Jersey, New York and Delaware and a federal representative from the Army Corps of Engineers… (more)
