Indiana County Landowner Group
Area covered: All towns in Indiana County
Membership: 5,000 acres and growing
Contact: CX-Energy, 724-933-1311, [email protected]
Web: //www.cx-energy.com
Area covered: All towns in Indiana County
Membership: 5,000 acres and growing
Contact: CX-Energy, 724-933-1311, [email protected]
Web: //www.cx-energy.com
Area covered: All towns in Crawford County
Membership: 200 members, 7,500 acres and growing
Contact: CX-Energy, 724-933-1311, [email protected]
Web: //www.cx-energy.com
Area covered: All towns in Clarion County
Membership: 3,000 acres and growing
Contact: CX-Energy, 724-933-1311, [email protected]
Web: //www.cx-energy.com
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court (the appellate court in PA) yesterday issued ruling on the zoning portion of the newly enacted Act 13 drilling law—and they ruled it unconstitutional. A full copy of the court’s opinion and ruling is embedded below. This is round two in the court fight. Round three, an appeal to the PA Supreme Court, will almost certainly come from Gov. Tom Corbett (he has as much as promised it).
MDN will give our overview of what the court decided, and of the dissenting opinion. But one thing caught our eye right away. MDN has made the argument several times that the Delaware Riverkeeper Network has no standing to be part of the lawsuit against the state and against Act 13 (see this MDN story). The good news with yesterday’s decision is that the justices tossed the Delaware Riverkeeper Network from the lawsuit, saying (as MDN has all along) they have no standing to participate and bring the suit in the first place. It’s a small and symbolic victory for those of us who support drilling, but a victory nonetheless.
Ohio State Rep. Mark Okey (Democrat) recently introduced a House Bill 493, which he calls the “Truth in Leasing Act.” It supposedly goes after “big oil and gas” and their “predatory” leasing practices. But when you read the bill, a fair amount of it has nothing to do with leases but instead creates new drilling rules (a copy of the bill is embedded below—you read it and see what you think).
In typical Democrat/Marxist fashion, Okey rails against “big oil” in his statement about the new legislation:
The Media Research Center (MRC) has an excellent article about the negative propaganda spewed in the mainstream media against the miracle of hydraulic fracturing. In researching the issue, MRC finds this about the news programs of the three major networks:
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: