The Delaware Riverkeeper used West Goshen Township as leverage in an attempt to apply Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment to pipelines. It failed.

The Delaware Riverkeeper (a/k/a “Povertykeeper”) is, with the financial support of the William Penn Foundation, on a mission to expand the reach of the Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA) to every imaginable use in its campaign against fossil fuels and natural gas development. Happily, it just lost a big battle on that front (for now) in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court. Notwithstanding the win, it’s time the industry played offense, though.

The Delaware River, the protection of which was once the supposed focus of the Riverkeeper organization, has been shoved to the back as Maya van Rossum has set her eyes on the real prize; law that trumps all other law and is enforceable by her through lawsuits funded by the elitist special interests for whom she shills. She desperately wants to be the individual who makes the ERA the ultimate weapon—the MOAB—in the battle to stop anything and everything. With Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court now in the hands of a very political—power is all that matters—set of Democrats likely to be sympathetic to her views, she smells the potential of a victory down the road that will expand on the Robinson decision.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/delaware-riverkeeper-attempt-apply-era-pipelines-shot/