Act 13, the Oil and Gas Act, contained a provision that physicians were not allowed to disclose “trade secret” chemicals to patients who had exposure to fracking fluids. Act 13 also said that if a spill occurred at a gas drilling site, only public water supply owners had to be notified. Private well owners did not need to be told. Act 13 also said that eminent domain could be used to take private land for gas storage.
Last month the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out these portions of Act 13.
I wonder what Rep. Heffley thought about this court decision. After all, he voted for Act 13. Maybe I’ll ask him tomorrow night at the Makhija-Heffley debate at Penn’s Peak, scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
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