It’s taking almost all the inner strength I can muster not to launch into the most profane tirade in human history. At what? This proposal from Gov Kill-the-Schools-Drill-the-State Corbett:
Some Pennsylvania universities should consider drilling for natural gas below campus to help solve their financial problems, Gov. Tom Corbett said Thursday.
The Erie Times-News reported that Corbett made the suggestion during an appearance at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees at Edinboro University.
Corbett said six of the 14 campuses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education are located on the Marcellus Shale formation, part of a vast region of underground natural gas deposits that are currently being explored and extracted.
So let me see if I understand this. The state should slash its appropriations to the state-owned universities in half. Then, the universities, at least the six lucky enough to be sitting on gas reserves (not WCU, by the way) should poison their communities, students, faculty, staff, and anybody else within poisoning distance by extracting that gas using a method that’s demonstrably stupid and dangerous.
And who would get the contracts to perform the extractions? Me wonders, yes, me wonders, My Precious…
APSCUF-WCU 