Corbett unveils his budget, but does not include gas-drilling severance tax

Big Natural Gas again gets off the hook, that’s the message sent to the public when new Gov. Tom Corbett unveiled his budge plan for the next fiscal year. Still no severance tax on natural gas drillers who’re punching holes on state forest land. This report from Philadelphia still does not say a thing about habitat destruction and fragmentation from natural gas drilling operations, and that ought to be the chief area of concern in all this.