{"id":291,"date":"2012-02-08T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gastruth.org\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-02-08T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:08:57","slug":"urgent-action-needed-in-berks-county-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"URGENT ACTION NEEDED IN BERKS COUNTY NOW!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The PA House voted for the Impact Fee bill around 4 p.m. Thank you to everyone who tried to save Pennsylvania from the drillers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now it&#8217;s time to vote these clowns out of office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House is currently debating the dreadful Impact Fee bill, HB1950. If you don&#8217;t know about the bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bill provides for a puny fee to be imposed on drillers<\/li>\n<li>The bill strips control over drilling operations from municipalities and gives it to the state<\/li>\n<li>The phrase &#8220;drilling operations&#8221; is important for people far from the nearest well pad to pay attention to because it means that things other than drilling are covered by this power-grabbing, industry-friendly bill. You don&#8217;t want your hands tied if the industry decides to lay a pipeline next to the elementary school, or down Main Street, or down Your street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">The Senate passed this bill already. The House debated until 10:45 last night and are at it again today. They would have voted if the had the votes to pass it. They didn&#8217;t. That means there&#8217;s still time to call your state representatives and tell them to vote NO! Berks Countians, be sure to call Tom Caltagirone whether he&#8217;s your rep or not. He&#8217;s a Democrat who is considering voting YES!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to his information:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/home\/findyourlegislator\/#address\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/home\/member_information\/house_bio.cfm?id=72<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to find your representative:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/home\/findyourlegislator\/#address\">http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/home\/findyourlegislator\/#address<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Call, email, repeat!!<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE The PA House voted for the Impact Fee bill around 4 p.m. Thank you to everyone who tried to save Pennsylvania from the drillers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,22,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actions","category-berks-gas-truth","category-impact-fee","category-karens-posts","category-posts-by-karen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}