Two of the DRBC hearings on its scandalous proposed fracking ban took place in Waymart, Pennsylvania. It was landowners versus the special interest groupies.

Yesterday afternoon and last night, the Delaware River Basin Commission or DRBC held two of the scheduled DRBC hearings on their proposed fracking ban. The hearings took place at the Salvation Army’s Lake Ladore conference facility under the shadow of the Moosic Mountain separating the DRBC and SRBC watersheds. Both hearings were contests between “special interest groupies”—as NaturalGasNOW reader Fred Peckham accurately characterized them—and local landowners.

Landowners did very well with highly focused testimony exposing DRBC discrimination and hypocrisy. They were somewhat outnumbered by the groupies (or minions as Fred later described them to me) in the afternoon but had the better of the evening session. The bulk of the groupies represented organizations owing their financial sustenance to Haas, Park, Rockefeller families and their elitist ilk with their plans to make a playground of the land we’ve stewarded and they want.

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/drbc-hearings-landowners-vs-special-interest-groupies/