The Binghamton moratorium balloon just burst and, while David Slottje tries to pretend the fragments are just celebratory confetti, the reality is that this was a failed strategy employed by a minority of communities and voices within those communities who have been exploited by David Slottje and others to deprive the majority of their land rights.

The strategy employed by natural gas opponents to stop development by delay has become personal for me because there is a concerted effort by a determined minority in Oxford, New York, where I have my business, to impose a natural gas moratorium. Unfortunately, that minority seems to constitute a majority of the Village Board, which is moving ahead despite clear direction from the Broome County Supreme Court that there is no legal basis for such a moratorium and which severely scolded the moratorium architect, David Slottje, on whom the Village is relying for advice. The moratorium balloon just burst over Binghamton, but my friends on the Oxford Village Board apparently believe Slottje when he tells them the fragments they see floating down are just celebratory confetti. They couldn’t be more wrong or more in the minority.

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