Pennsylvania bureaucrat tries to explain why citizens can't be heard at fracking hearing

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The communications director with the Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor's office tries to justify why oil and gas industry voices were first heard during a public hearing session at the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. A citizen interrupts the gentleman and points out that his statements are incorrect.

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• fracking
• pennsylvania
• fracturing
• water
• contamination
• marcellus
• drilling
• oil
• gas

[SuperContinuum]

God Lord . . . this guy came off as a giant ass from his first statement . . . and notice how his face turns beet red when he is confronted with the truth by the woman.

[sleepcity]

THAT woman for Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania!

[natasprotector]

@danadolney kind of like the ignorance you portray in this video.

[natasprotector]

@GilaTomster you can start by boycotting the internet because electricity is run by natural gas so please shut off your heat and power. thank you or you can just keep it on and we will keep drilling and providing with means to live everyday. your welcome

[natasprotector]

how did that write in campaign go LOL

[Bastranz]

Ladies and Gentlemen...that is what we call a FAIL...caught in a lie. The fail begins at 0:32. Gosh, he did act like a jerk, though.

[natasprotector]

@BradRapstars WINNING

[jreoli]

this professional needs another professional to tell him to ditch the condescension, he comes off as a db. and, i have no doubt she was correct. i know dana, she's legit. two sign up sheets is an old, old ploy, no conspiracy, just a ploy.

[jreoli]

this professional needs another professionat to tell him to ditch the condescension, he comes off as a douchebag. and, i have no doubt she was correct. i know dana, she's legit. two sign up sheets is an old, old ploy. 

[RossoCarne]

@pisspants13 Bro, these things have rules for a reason. The same issues arose at the Allegheny county comissioners hearing. There are a lot of people who want to speak, but becasue they didn't sign up, there just isn't time. This is really a situation where the person who yells loudest seems right, but an upstanding, gentlemanly even, figurehead is much better than someone who yells half-truths.

[pisspants13]

@RossoCarne You have the right to choose whoever you want, whether "professional" or not, but one could argue a bald face lie is more unprofessional than an activist who demands accountability for those lies. This professional was standing there telling a lie, and she called him out on that lie. Many people would call her the professional in this instance.

[RossoCarne]

Meh passion is one thing, but if someone is going to represent the voters of Pittsburgh and Allegheny county, I don't want them to be unprofessional like this. It's embarrassing really.