Author: WDUQ

At Pittsburgh’s NPR station WDUQ, coverage of the Marcellus Shale highlighted Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley’s visit to Talisman Energy’s U.S. headquarters in Warrendale, where he promoted the economic benefits of expanded drilling under Gov. Tom Corbett’s advisory committee. But critics questioned the use of selective statistics and booster rhetoric, arguing that public officials were overselling job creation while minimizing environmental risk in Pennsylvania’s rapidly expanding shale boom.