https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&...
Hopefully this link will work for people to please sign the petition! It's designed only for PA. residents unfortunately. Any/all PA. residents please, we need all the help we can get against these fracker-scum! Sane sensible people need to stand up against the mad-frackers!
http://connect.sierraclub.org/Team/Hydrofracking_Team/blog/2012/05/01/pa-house-d...
Please join us to fight back against Act 13!
This law stripped Pennsylvania's local communities of their right right to control gas drilling in thier townships. Under the new law, a municipality cannot even challenge a permit issued to a driller, even if DEP ignores all the community's concerns.
In community after community, citizens has been speaking out against this giveaway to the natural gas industry. In Bucks County's Nockamixon Township, a drilling company filed a permit to drill the day the Corbett signed Act 13. Until that day, the township's zoning ordinances prohibited gas drilling in its residential zone. Since all of Bucks County's Republican legislators voted in favor of Act 13, they have become the target of local protests over this preemption of local authority. In response, several legislators have announced plans to introduce legislation to roll back some of Act 13's local preemption language.
If the gas industry is allowed to bring their industrial activities into your residential area, other polluting industries will want an exemption from local control, too. Local governance is essential to protecting our health and safety. Make your voice heard!
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