The logging companies stripped the forests bare back in the day eroding mountainsides and creating flash floods.

The anthracite and bituminous coal companies left the land scarred by culm banks, subsiding tunnels, old strip mines and creeks filled with mine drainage.

The western PA oil industry left abandoned wells behind.

The concrete and slate industries in the Lehigh Valley left water-filled quarries everywhere.

The defunct steel companies and railroads leaving abandoned structures and contaminated soil behind around their mills and railyards.

This state's politicians never stopped any of them from doing what they did, why would Harrisburg stop the gas companies now?

Answer: Money's 200+ years experience do the talking in our state's politics, that's why.