EXCERPT:"In Peters Township, an affluent community whose rolling hills are dotted with newly built homes, small farms and two country clubs, residents will vote this fall on a local bill of rights that would ban gas extraction, a move proponents say is necessary to guarantee residents the right to clean water and air."
COMMENT:
The work by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, CELDF, whose community rights protective ordinances are sparking the new civil rights and environmental movement across the United States, is gaining momentum as more communities insist upon their rights over those unequal rights of corporations. The unjust laws are being challenged strongly.....and change is coming.
September 12, 2011
PETERS TOWNSHIP, Pa.—Challengers to natural gas drilling are taking a new approach in Pennsylvania, putting the rights of energy companies to drill in the massive Marcellus Shale basin on the ballot in what are believed to be the nation's first voter initiatives seeking to ban such activity.
In Peters Township, an affluent community whose rolling hills are dotted with newly built homes, small farms and two country clubs, residents will vote this fall on a local bill of rights that would ban gas extraction, a move proponents say is necessary to guarantee residents the right to clean water and air.
