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Contrary to what Oklahoma based Chesapeake Energy would have us believe, FRACKING is not safe. Also contrary to what the (un)Natural Gas industry would have us believe, we have the ability to STOP FRACKING IN ITS TRACKS here in Sullivan County, have the ability to stop it here in the geographical footprint of the "Town of Fallsburg". Two recent court decisions are MAJOR SET BACKS for the (un)Natural Gas industry, and big wins for local communities.
Simply stated, in two separate cases judges have ruled that banning fracking is a natural extension of a community's local government to control land use.
On Friday, Acting Supreme Court Justice Donald Cerio held that Middlefield, a town about 70 miles west of Albany, had the authority to ban gas drilling. The ruling came just three days after State Supreme Court Justice Phillip Rumsey dismissed Anschutz Exploration Corporation's bid to overturn a similar ban in the Ithaca suburb of Dryden, where the company owns leases on more than 220,000 acres of land.Both judges held that the bans were natural extensions of local governments' authority to regulate their own land use.
Which begs the question of our own elected officials here in Sullivan County, both on the county level, and on the local level here in Fallsburg, "Where is our FRACKING BAN"? It seems rather obvious that a majority of the citizens of our county do not want FRACKING, and politicians are elected to do the peoples business, not the business of the rich and elite. So, where is our FRACKING BAN?
If our elected officials don't want to lose their deep pocketed supporters (donors) how about we put it up for a vote in the November Election? No fancy words, just a straight up or down vote with the majority's wishes immediately adhered to. It would be a David verse Goliath battle, and would bring some serious money into our county between now and December...can you imagine how much money the Natural Gas industry would spend trying to defeat the measure? Chesapeake Energy, Cabot, Exxon all flooding Sullivan County with bodies, knocking on doors, buying full page ads in every print media outlet, and probably wanting to toss around money trying to BUY VOTES...imagine every little league team but one sporting the emblems of a Natural Gas company, the lone hold out sponsored by the Anti Fracktivists as we have been labeled.
I am opening inviting ALL OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS in Sullivan County to post to this article, and explain their position on Fracking clearly and distinctly, am asking each of you to tell us where you stand personally, and as our elected officials where you stand in this fight. There is NO MIDDLE GROUND, you either support FRACKING and all the ills that WILL COME WITH IT, or you are opposed to it. If you suupport fracking, we HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW, and it will tell us just who we need target for defeat the next time you are up for re-election.
Again, where is our ban on Fracking, why haven't we passed zoning laws BANNING THIS SOON TO BE BLIGHT ON OUR COUNTY?
Anti Frackers...Demand a FRACKING BAN
Government Contacts!
Sullivan County Government Center
100 North Street
Monticello, New York 12701
Telephone: (845) 807-0435
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