This is the testimony of Fred Peckham given at the January 23rd DRBC Hearing in Waymart on their proposed fracking ban. Let it speak for itself.

I am a riverfront land owner from Hancock, NY. My family has made a living using the natural resources in the river valley for over 160 years.

I come here today in defense of my property rights.

The new ban on hydraulic fracturing proposed by the DRBC seems to be nothing more then an unconstitutional attempt at taking of private property rights in the Upper Delaware river basin based on the emotions of special interest rather then science as a guide with absolutely no intentions of paying just compensation to landowners.

It almost seems that the DRBC is trying to take us back to the 1830’s when feudalism was still in use in NY. Where tenants were granted use of the land with the promise of ownership in some future date, paying these landlords fees while never gaining the rights of ownership afforded them by the US Constitution, until the Anti Rent Wars in the 1840’s in Delaware County, NY put an end to this corrupted system once and for all.

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/drbc-fracking-ban-fred-peckham/