PA's Dept. of Homeland Security Shared Oil-Shale Protester Info With Companies

Western Pennsylvania's shale oil deposits have lately attracted interest not only from companies who have been extracting some of that oil, but from locals who object to what they perceive as sharp dealing by the companies involved, favorable treatment by the state government, and environmental degradation as a result of the extraction. Some of the most visible of those protesters, it turns out, have been tracked (including "Web traffic") by Pennsylvania's own Homeland Security department, and that information about them has been shared not only within the department, but with the oil companies themselves. Homeland Security director James Powers defended the information shared with the oil companies as part of a triweekly bulletin, saying "We want to continue providing this support to the Marcellus Shale Formation natural gas stakeholders while not feeding those groups fomenting dissent against those same companies."

Re:payback at later date

[moortak]

After this I think there's a good number of people looking to find him a nice position in the Marcellus Shale Formation.

Re:Someone needs to be kicked out of office

[Haeleth]

Someone should be going to jail here.

Calm down, these things take time. They have to identify all the dissidents before they can start rounding them up,

Re:Those damn evil Republicans

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Hypocracy? What hypocracy? Total Government control is a party platform.

Hypocracy - government by people who are below average?