From the LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL:
Five of Pennsylvania’s largest natural gas drilling interests spent a staggering $1.3 million to lobby state government from January through March as lawmakers and the Corbett administration worked to approve a new impact fee on the industry.
Leading the pack was the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry trade group based in southwestern Pennsylvania. The group spent $978,766 during the first three months of the year trying to influence government, disclosure records show.
Rounding out the top five were the drilling company Range Resources, $133,766; Chesapeake Appalachia LLC, $111,099; Shell Oil, $102,400 and Spectra Energy Transmission, $48,088, records show. The four companies and the industry trade group also led the pack on lobbying expenses during the first nine months of 2011…
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EDITOR: This is a similar amount as Tom Corbett received from the Marcellus Shale lobby during his election campaign. They were paying to get their candidate elected. Three guesses as to what are they paying for now.
The U.S. is proud of its “best government money can buy.” In the case of PA it has to be the “worst state government already bought.”