Another one of those silly stunts recently undertaken by fractivists has been taking a “Pledge to Resist” and it has inspired Vic Furman to come up with his own “Pledge to Defend” his property rights.

I have nothing against activists. I am one, in fact; a pro gas activist living in Upstate New York. Fractivists, though, are another matter. My state has, for political reasons, denied my rights and those of other landowners wishing to tap into their mineral rights using high volume hydraulic fracturing that has been proven safe and is in use throughout the rest of our nation. Upstate New York, outside of the Hudson Valley, is in a death spiral and, yet, the politicians in Albany pay more attention to the antics of a handful of malcontents, a few fractivists, than the crisis facing landowners like me and my neighbors.

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