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Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses
PolygamousRanchKid writes with this news from MotherJones: "Last year, when Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett suggested offsetting college tuition fees by leasing parts of state-owned college campuses to natural gas drillers, more than a few Pennsylvanians were left blinking and rubbing their eyes. But it was no idle threat: After quietly moving through the state Senate and House, this week the governor signed into law a bill that opens up 14 of the state's public universities to fracking, oil drilling, and coal mining on campus. Environmentalists and educators are concerned that fracking and other resource exploitation on campus could leave students directly exposed to harms like explosions, water contamination, and air pollution."
Everybody in America who cares about their health should make it a point to live as far away from exploitable natural resources as possible
I see you've chosen to live as far away from the natural resource of rationality as you can.
In third world countries, living near resources should be a boon--a ticket out of poverty. What usually happens though is some multinational corporation comes in, aided by a corrupt government
There we go. Complaining about tea partiers when the real problems you complain about are the same problems that the tea partiers are complaining about.
Advocating for no government as a solution for a corrupt government makes about as much sense as proposing decapitation to cure a headache.
The tea partiers are idiots who are going to solve government corruption by making it legal.