PA. Head of Envi. Protection Dept. Says State of Delaware "Smells Like the Tail of a Dog"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10741577

http://articles.philly.com/2012-05-16/news/31727827_1_fracking-drilling-for-natural-gas-corbett-administration

"All it took was a few ill-chosen words from Michael Krancer, Gov. Corbett’s secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, who griped in early May about the First State’s well-founded reluctance to lift the moratorium on drilling in the Delaware River watershed, which is home to 15 million people.

“Sometimes they smell like the tail of a dog,” Krancer told an upstate builders’ forum, a newspaper reported. “And it (Delaware) is shaped like a dog with a tail. This is the tail wagging the dog.”

While Krancer declined to expand upon his remarks, presumably he was motivated by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell’s announcement last fall that he had serious concerns about the safety risks from hydraulic fracturing.

Markell’s reservations effectively halted moves by officials working through a multistate agency to craft guidelines to open counties near the Delaware River to drilling for natural gas. As Markell rightly noted, moving ahead before the absolute safety of so-called fracking can be determined could threaten the drinking water of millions."