Laura Legere, long-time lackey for the fractivist cause, has produced another hit piece on the natural industry that leaves out the most important facts.

Laura Legere is no journalist. She’s a hard-core advocate playacting as one and always has been. A weekend story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer, to which she “contributed,” is just the latest fusillade aimed at an industry she has long despised. When Laura was still at the Scranton Times, I once did an analysis of her natural gas coverage over the preceding year and found she had written nearly 40 stories on the subject, all but one of which were relentlessly negative. She is anything but objective and that has been proven yet again with this latest phony hit piece aimed at the industry in regard to the Pennsylvania severance tax debate. Fortunately, the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) is fighting back.

The story is supposedly authored by the Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau, but a note at the bottom tells us Laura Legere was instrumental in planning this attack on the industry. Her fingerprints are all over it. Like every one of her pieces on natural gas, it takes a dozen shots at the industry before allowing any rebuttal, painting the industry as some sort of massive corporate network that overwhelms the influence of others when, in fact, just the opposite is true.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/laura-legere-yet-another-phony-story-fracking/