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

I am addressing this board to present the facts as I understand them.

Under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, it states and I quote, “No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

The taking of the right to capture and extract any mineral or natural resource is an act of eminent domain. A total ban on natural gas extraction is a violation of the Constitution.

If this violation is allowed, then there is no part of the Constitution that’s enforceable.

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/drbc-fracking-ban-steven-adams/