The DRBC fracking ban reflects what has become a mini-dictatorship serving only the interests of downstream groups who have no use for us and want our land.

I believe the DRBC has already made a decision and is just going through the motions to satisfy the law. Let me say I also resent groups from the lower basin, the Riverkeeper and others who are already financially stable or expect to get no financial benefit from gas drilling telling us how to use the land we have paid taxes on all of our lives. We are not uneducated country bumpkins. We are good stewards of our lands – otherwise folks from New Jersey and Philly wouldn’t move here.

I guess money is power when it comes to the DRBC fracking ban. Unfortunately, few farmers are well off. Do these groups pushing for a ban have any idea the budget of the DRBC compared to us? Maybe they don’t care as long as they get want they want.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/striking-back-scandalous-drbc-fracking-ban-mary-ann-llewellyn/