The DRBC decision yesterday to sometime consider something we haven’t yet seen is getting press but it’s only a defensive move in a bigger war over land.

I don’t have a lot to add to the post I wrote yesterday prior to the DRBC vote on its resolution. It all went as predicted. Tom Wolf betrayed fellow Pennsylvanians, telling them to go pound salt after they failed to pick up on his request for a severance tax bribe, siding with New York second home owners instead. I knew Wolf would be a governor I didn’t much like but I thought he was smarter than this. Turns out he’s just another trust-funder.

But, that’s not why I decided to add an afterthought to this story. What needs to be said is that this is merely a DRBC reaction to the Wayne Land and Minerals Group (WLMG) lawsuit against it. It doesn’t amount to anything and it will have little effect because the lawsuit is where the action is and it will determine the future.

It was quite amazing to watch WBRE’s reporting of the DRBC vote. It was all about the 29 people from the Upper Delaware region who went to DRBC meeting at Bucks County Community College yesterday and were all in favor of what was described as a vote on a ban. The reality is that every person featured as a local resident opposed to fracking and applauding a ban were long-time fractivists from outside the area who moved in, own very little land, and are determined to keep everyone else out. One is an artist and dancer from Manhattan who now has a place here, another was involved with Josh Fox’s Gasland fraud and runs the radical Damascus Citizens group composed of Manhattanites and a third was Alex Lotorto’s father, Alex being a serial protester. Still another was a PennFuture staff attorney and, of course, all the other usual suspect shills for the William Penn Foundation were there as well.

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