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Pegula, Fracking, Penn State and the Bills
All hail the great hope for Bills' fans the world over!
Terry Pegula by some accounts is the front-runner to purchase the Buffalo Bills. Most, if not all, on this board are openly pining for this guy to be the "answer". Before everyone jumps off the shale cliff, I just want you to be sure what you're all signing up for.
The natural gas industry gave $7,175,234 to Pennsylvania candidates and Political Action Committees (PACs) from 2000 through the end of 2010, according to a Common Cause/Pennsylvania (CCPA) analysis released today. $3,442,212 was donated to elected officials currently in office...
...A news review of compliance records found East Resources, the company Terrence M. Pegula sold last summer for $4.7 billion, had a middling record of complying with environmental regulations in Pennsylvania, his base of operations. The company last year paid the largest regulatory fine in its history and was involved in a spill of toxic wastewater that resulted in the first quarantine of cattle in the history of natural gas drilling in the state...
...On Sept. 17, Pegula announced his donation of $88 million — the largest philanthropic act in university history — to help fund a state-of-the-art ice arena, as well as the addition of men’s and women’s NCAA Division I hockey programs to his alma mater (Penn State).Buying a Hockey Team, big donation to Penn State...
... Penn State is also the home of The Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research. The center funds research for the advancement of methane drilling technology and procedures in the Marcellus Shale area. They are currently conducting a study on the safety of tap water in the homes surrounding the wells and fracking sites owned by East Resources and Shell...
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Terry Pegula, the Penn State alumnus whose $88 million gift funded two Division I ice hockey programs, said this week he’s “standing behind the university” in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal, but also had candid words for university officials in an interview with Canadian sports network TSN.
Pegula also told TSN he intends to be more active in university affairs in the wake of the scandal to make sure “the right things are done.”
Is Terry pushing for the big chair as President of Penn State, or a seat at the Trustee’s table? And will Marcellus Gas Drilling take even more control over Penn State and other institutions of higher education?
...more...
BTW... anyone seen the Academy Award Nominated documentary "Gasland"?
My main question is this... how in the world does this guy actualy represent the Bills better than someone like... Bon Jovi?
Terry Pegula by some accounts is the front-runner to purchase the Buffalo Bills. Most, if not all, on this board are openly pining for this guy to be the "answer". Before everyone jumps off the shale cliff, I just want you to be sure what you're all signing up for.
The natural gas industry gave $7,175,234 to Pennsylvania candidates and Political Action Committees (PACs) from 2000 through the end of 2010, according to a Common Cause/Pennsylvania (CCPA) analysis released today. $3,442,212 was donated to elected officials currently in office...
...A news review of compliance records found East Resources, the company Terrence M. Pegula sold last summer for $4.7 billion, had a middling record of complying with environmental regulations in Pennsylvania, his base of operations. The company last year paid the largest regulatory fine in its history and was involved in a spill of toxic wastewater that resulted in the first quarantine of cattle in the history of natural gas drilling in the state...
...On Sept. 17, Pegula announced his donation of $88 million — the largest philanthropic act in university history — to help fund a state-of-the-art ice arena, as well as the addition of men’s and women’s NCAA Division I hockey programs to his alma mater (Penn State).Buying a Hockey Team, big donation to Penn State...
... Penn State is also the home of The Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research. The center funds research for the advancement of methane drilling technology and procedures in the Marcellus Shale area. They are currently conducting a study on the safety of tap water in the homes surrounding the wells and fracking sites owned by East Resources and Shell...
... Excerpt:
Terry Pegula, the Penn State alumnus whose $88 million gift funded two Division I ice hockey programs, said this week he’s “standing behind the university” in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal, but also had candid words for university officials in an interview with Canadian sports network TSN.
Pegula also told TSN he intends to be more active in university affairs in the wake of the scandal to make sure “the right things are done.”
Is Terry pushing for the big chair as President of Penn State, or a seat at the Trustee’s table? And will Marcellus Gas Drilling take even more control over Penn State and other institutions of higher education?
...more...
BTW... anyone seen the Academy Award Nominated documentary "Gasland"?
My main question is this... how in the world does this guy actualy represent the Bills better than someone like... Bon Jovi?
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