Here’s Corbett’s state­ment, released this after­noon via email:

“The pro­vi­sions struck down by the Com­mon­wealth Court are crit­i­cally impor­tant for job cre­ators who are employ­ing more than 240,000 Penn­syl­va­ni­ans, for landown­ers seek­ing to exer­cise their prop­erty rights, and for local gov­ern­ments look­ing for guid­ance on how they may rea­son­ably reg­u­late oil and gas oper­a­tions,” Cor­bett said. “The pro­vi­sions are also inte­gral to the enhanced envi­ron­men­tal stan­dards and impact fee rev­enue por­tions of the Act. Indeed, there would be no Act with­out each of these cru­cial pieces.”
 
“It is impor­tant to note that the pro­vi­sions casu­ally set aside by the court were the result of months of com­pro­mise and nego­ti­a­tion, with sig­nif­i­cant input and sup­port from Pennsylvania’s local gov­ern­ment asso­ci­a­tions,” Cor­bett said. “Both the County Com­mis­sion­ers Asso­ci­a­tion of Penn­syl­va­nia and the Penn­syl­va­nia State Asso­ci­a­tion of Town­ship Super­vi­sors, which rep­re­sents 1,455 munic­i­pal­i­ties, urged pas­sage of the law. This deci­sion endan­gers the jobs of tens of thou­sands of Penn­syl­va­ni­ans and deprives cit­i­zens of their prop­erty rights.
 
“It is the Gen­eral Assem­bly and Governor’s pre­rog­a­tive to estab­lish pol­icy; it is the court’s job to pass judg­ment on the con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of this pol­icy, not its mer­its. Act 13 clearly meets the con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity test, and I am con­fi­dent the Supreme Court will adhere to its respon­si­bil­ity in a prompt and timely manner.”