Judge: N.Y. town can ban fracking
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A New York State judge ruled on Friday that a community can ban natural gas drilling within its borders, The New York Times reports.
It was the second court decision this week affirming local authority over "fracking."
Last June Middlefield, in Otsego County, passed a zoning law prohibiting heavy industry, including oil and gas drilling. A landowner, who had signed a lease granting drilling rights to a gas company sued the town.
Jennifer K. Huntington, a dairy farmer and president of Cooperstown Holstein Corporation, argued that only the state could regulate drilling. She said in her suit that Middlefield's ban denied her the economic benefits of the leases, "including the right to market [her land's] minerals, including oil and natural gas."
Acting State Supreme Court justice Donald F. Cerio Jr., decided that New York State's regulatory powers did not overrule a municipality passing a law governing land use.
Last Tuesday another drilling ban, in Dryden, was upheld in a suit brought by an oil and gas company.
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However, this woman does not understand that the risk are not hers they are everyone's in the area. So she might be making money in the case of an accident but not others. Plus what she going to do wen the earthquakes come? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/03/youngstown-rocks-is-fracking-causing-earthquakes-in-ohio.html
Because Bush made is LEGAL to do it without permission and without fear of environmental destruction penalties in the first place.
We have completely failed to teach critical thinking in our school system.
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It was planned to not teach critical thinking in our school system because it would produce informed leaders who would act on behalf of the people instead of the greedy and corporate entities.
It's part of making america's people fall into a modern middle ages
or what we call the "dumbing of America"
See what happens if you take some old turpentine, motor oil and lead based paint and dump it in your backyard. Your neighbors are going to come unglued, yet these companies are allowed to pump toxic's into the aquifer under the umbrella of "no scientific proof" of harm.
Residents in fracking areas are forced to run fans in their bathrooms while showering because of the fumes and some can light their tap water on fire, yet the oil and gas companies claim there is nothing to be concerned about.
There are far too many politician heavily invested in the oil and gas industry.
Because Bush made is LEGAL to do it without permission and without fear of environmental destruction penalties in the first place.
We have completely failed to teach critical thinking in our school system.
I am eager to learn how the states-rights Republicans come down on this issue, since counties and cities are political subdivisions of the state. If I were to bet $10,000, it would be that the Republicans support the drillers.
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Only if it is NOT in an area populated by Repugs.
Google "Exide" and "McKinney" for the Exide Battery
drama playing out in the northern suburb of Dallas.
Since it is the children of Repugs being affected,
they are more than happy to stop the pollution being
created by the aforementioned company.