NWPOA is on a full-steam campaign to find out why the DRBC is refusing to do its duty and act upon already drafted regulations governing gas drilling – regulations that have sat in limbo since September, 2011.

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) has, as many readers know, simply opted to sit on already drafted regulations of natural gas drilling in the basin since September, 2011, in a stunning display of government malfeasance that throws the Constitutional rights of every Upper Delaware region landowner down to the ground and stomps all over them.

The Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance (NWPOA) is fighting back to reclaim our rights as property owners. We issued a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demand to the agency, which was blithely rejected by their FOIA officer, appealed that decision and got an acknowledgment from the Commission Secretary that we were, in fact entitled, to much of the information we had requested, although she did everything possible to make securing of it a daunting task. NWPOA, though, will not be deterred and we are submitting a revised FOIA demand for e-mail and other correspondence between DRBC management and key opponents of natural gas drilling.

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