A recent letter in a Washington County newspaper in support of a local attorney and friend of Rep. Jesse White raises many issues about who is really behind natural gas opposition in the Marcellus Shale. 

There was an unusual letter to the editor in the Observer-Reporter newspaper in Washington, Pennsylvania  that tells us a lot about how activist natural gas opposition works throughout the Marcellus Shale region. Namely, they intentionally mislead, and use more aliases than Sean Combs in doing so.  The letter, ostensibly written in support of Rep. Jesse White’s favorite lawyer, Attorney John Smith, and targeting Range Resources, was signed by Veronica Coptis, “community organizer with the Mountain Watershed Association.”

Coptis uses her letter to sing the praises of Smith, the author of the Act 13 challenge now before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as a selfless solicitor for Robinson Township, Washington County, but manages to direct most of her attention to Jesse White’s favorite cause; attacking Range Resources.  The words come off the page like they were written by Smith or White for someone else to sign but this is beside the point.  We know Coptis is no ordinary citizen making observations to her neighbors.  Rather, she is an activist with an agenda.

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