A Chorus of Environmentalists Decry Shale Bills

Mary Wil­son / WITF

Envi­ron­men­tal­ists ral­lied in Har­ris­burg on Tues­day to oppose the pro­posed Impact Fee bills.

WITF’s Mary Wil­son reports from Har­ris­burg on today’s rally against the Impact Fee bills. Wil­son says activists repeat­edly broke into chants of “Kill the bill!”

About a hun­dred activists took to the Capi­tol Rotunda steps today, a lively Greek cho­rus to punc­tu­ate the spiels of activists, clergy, and a for­mer local offi­cial call­ing on state law­mak­ers to spear the work­ing pro­pos­als for a Mar­cel­lus Shale impact fee.

The crowd booed men­tions of the munic­i­pal “pre­emp­tion” lan­guage in both House and Sen­ate mea­sures (the pre­emp­tion lan­guage is gone, as StateIm­pactPA has reported), hissed the pro­posed lev­els of impact fees, and repeat­edly broke into chants of “Kill the bills!”

For more on the rally and the reac­tion from law­mak­ers, read Mary’s story at www.witf.org.