Governor Corbett packed more than thirty people onto the Capitol Media Center’s stage this afternoon to promote his proposed $1.65 billion Shell tax break. Most of the event’s content mirrored what we’ve been hearing from the Administration for the past two weeks. Here’s what was new:
The Corbett Administration’s claims that an ethane cracker would lead to “20,000 permanent jobs” in western Pennsylvania are based on a study conducted by the American Chemistry Council, an industry trade group that counts Shell Chemical as a member. The state has not conducted its own research into the matter, as the Tribune-Review reported earlier [...]
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