Drill Bits: Legislature Returns to Harrisburg; Anti-Fracking Protests In Dimock

Impact Fee Part Of A Busy Year-End Legislative Schedule “Major legislation to levy a Marcellus impact fee and enact new environmental protections for drilling activities in Northeastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere, privatize the state-owned liquor stores, expand school choice programs and provide supplemental state aid to assist the flood recovery in Northeast Pennsylvania are competing for attention in the Republican-controlled Legislature.” (Citizens voice)

Dimock supervisors to meet tonight on water delivery offer “Dimock Twp. supervisors will consider tonight whether to accept a tanker of fresh water offered by the mayor of Binghamton, N.Y., to township residents whose water deliveries were stopped last week by the natural gas driller blamed for tainting their wells.” (thetimes-tribune.com)

Mark Ruffalo, Actor, Embraces Anti-Fracking Role A sign of how high-profile Dimock’s water issue has become: actor Mark Ruffalo is leading an anti-fracking protest there this week. The New York Times profiles the actor, and looks at how he got involved in the anti-drilling movement. (nytimes.com)