Pennsylvania State Employees Say They Were Ordered to Keep Silent About Shale Drilling

PA state employees ordered
to a code of silence on drilling?
From StateImpact Pennsylvania:
Two retirees from the Pennsylvania Department of Health say its employees were silenced on the issue of Marcellus Shale drilling. 
One veteran employee says she was instructed not to return phone calls from residents who expressed health concerns about natural gas development. 
“We were absolutely not allowed to talk to them,” said Tammi Stuck, who worked as a community health nurse in Fayette County for nearly 36 years. 
Another retired employee, Marshall P. Deasy III, confirmed that. 
Deasy, a former program specialist with the Bureau of Epidemiology, said the department also began requiring field staff to get permission to attend any meetings outside the department. This happened, he said, after an agency consultant made comments about drilling at a community meeting.
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