Delaware and Sullivan County landowner Inge Grafe-Kieklak rejoins Natural Gas Now to report on a lawsuit she and other Delaware County property owners have filed against the Town of Sidney, where the Town Board ignored state law to enact a natural gas moratorium prepared on David Slottje’s advice, without the required supermajority of members.

I did not expect to be back on this blog commenting again so soon after yesterday’s post on WJFF, but events have intervened and I have news to report regarding a lawsuit I, together with other landowners in Delaware County, New York, have filed against the Town of Sidney.

Our legal counsel, the Binghamton-based firm of Hinman, Howard & Kattell, filed legal papers on our behalf yesterday in Delaware County Court, challenging the Town for enacting a moratorium against the recommendations of the Delaware County Planning Board. The 1-year gas drilling moratorium was approved on February 14, 2013 by only three of the five-members of the Town of Sidney Town Board (one less than the required supermajority required under New York State law) and fails on several grounds.

http://naturalgasnow.org/slottje-advice-to-town-of-sidney-earns-the...