Pro-gas group offers all-expenses paid trip for local landowners - Scranton Times-Tribune

It sounds like a pitch for an overnight getaway: an all-expenses-paid trip to the Pittsburgh area, including airfare or bus transportation, meals and lodging.

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In an effort to populate a federal public hearing with natural gas-drilling supporters, an oil and gas industry public relations group is offering those incentives to area landowners to encourage them to travel to Washington, Pa., to speak up for drilling on Monday night. Mr. Shepstone is a local consultant for Energy in Depth, an oil and gas industry organization formed in 2009 to combat criticism and regulation of hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique necessary to harvest gas from tight rock formations.

Pro-gas group offers all-expenses paid trip for local landowners - Scranton Times-Tribune