5 thoughts on “Pittsburgh Bans Drilling of Marcellus Shale”
I hope the industry boycotts Pittsburgh completely. They should not support an area that passes unconstitutional laws and does not want them, despite the fact they are in desperate need of economic development.
If you read the facts the drillers do not even have a permit for the city. However, they are spending millions each year for conference, meetings, rental space, etc.. They should go somewhere else where people have common sense. Maybe there is somethng in the water Shields and his cronnies are drinking?
The drillers and other industry will be back in Pittsburgh. The resolution may slow them up enough to think about consequences for awhile. If there is something in the water it may be in part due to the environmental impact of previous industrial and mining activity in the area. By that I mean our area has long been impacted by environmental stress and it has put a lot of effort into recovering from that.
The idea isn’t to destroy business and industry but to bring it into perspective where the people of local communities have control or perhaps better put take responsible stewardship of their environment and assert their ascendancy or more properly nature’s ascendancy over the power of corporations.
The above mentioned Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, may well be worth investigating and pursuing with its support of Rights of Nature and a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth.
Chambersburg Declaration
It may also connect somehow into something called the Chambersburg Declaration… And in fact a google search leads to its inclusion on their website at http://www.celdf.org/article.php?id=696 under a heading entitled “Our Work” “On Saturday, February 20, 2010 citizens from more than a dozen counties met in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania to initiate plans to convene a Pennsylvania People’s Constitutional Convention made up of delegates from municipalities across the state. The idea is to have the people gain control of their local communities and to take the lead over corporations.
Read them to get a better idea of what is going on. I have only recently learned of them. A hundred or so communities from a dozen or more counties in Pennsylvania want to get together to redo the Pennsylvania Constitution. Maybe that convention isn’t at first practical but coalitions around many related issues might eventually be able to check effectively the spirit or intent behind this January 2008 declaration from then Attorney General Thomas Corbett’s office in Commonwealth Court: “There is no inalienable right to local self-government.”
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I hope the industry boycotts Pittsburgh completely. They should not support an area that passes unconstitutional laws and does not want them, despite the fact they are in desperate need of economic development.
Nonsense, utter nonsense. Drillers do not boycott economic deposits, except in some lobbyists imaginarium.
If you read the facts the drillers do not even have a permit for the city. However, they are spending millions each year for conference, meetings, rental space, etc.. They should go somewhere else where people have common sense. Maybe there is somethng in the water Shields and his cronnies are drinking?
The drillers and other industry will be back in Pittsburgh. The resolution may slow them up enough to think about consequences for awhile. If there is something in the water it may be in part due to the environmental impact of previous industrial and mining activity in the area. By that I mean our area has long been impacted by environmental stress and it has put a lot of effort into recovering from that.
The idea isn’t to destroy business and industry but to bring it into perspective where the people of local communities have control or perhaps better put take responsible stewardship of their environment and assert their ascendancy or more properly nature’s ascendancy over the power of corporations.
The above mentioned Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, may well be worth investigating and pursuing with its support of Rights of Nature and a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth.
Chambersburg Declaration
It may also connect somehow into something called the Chambersburg Declaration… And in fact a google search leads to its inclusion on their website at http://www.celdf.org/article.php?id=696 under a heading entitled “Our Work” “On Saturday, February 20, 2010 citizens from more than a dozen counties met in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania to initiate plans to convene a Pennsylvania People’s Constitutional Convention made up of delegates from municipalities across the state. The idea is to have the people gain control of their local communities and to take the lead over corporations.
Read them to get a better idea of what is going on. I have only recently learned of them. A hundred or so communities from a dozen or more counties in Pennsylvania want to get together to redo the Pennsylvania Constitution. Maybe that convention isn’t at first practical but coalitions around many related issues might eventually be able to check effectively the spirit or intent behind this January 2008 declaration from then Attorney General Thomas Corbett’s office in Commonwealth Court: “There is no inalienable right to local self-government.”