Mr. Krancer Goes To Washington

A Congressional subcommittee holds a hearing today on federal regulation – or lack thereof – of hydraulic fracturing.
Among those set to testify: Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection Secretary, Michael Krancer.
Krancer is a strong advocate for state-level regulation of natural gas drilling, and has criticized EPA involvement as duplicative.
Here’s more on the hearing from The Times Reporter of Ohio:

The House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, which Gibbs chairs, will look at potential new regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking.”
“I’m excited about the potential we have in the Utica shale and job creation in eastern Ohio,” Gibbs said.
According to an economic impact study done by the Ohio Oil & Gas Energy Education Program, development of the Utica Shale formation — which underlies the entire Tuscarawas Valley and the eastern half of the state — could generate $12.3 billion in gross state product, result in more than $23 billion in sales and create more than 200,000 Ohio-based jobs. The state could experience an overall wage and personal-income boost of $12 billion by 2015 from industry spending.
Gibbs said he is concerned about unnecessary regulation of the industry by the EPA, noting that no one has been able to say that fracking — which has been used for decades — has  caused any problems in the United States.

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