- "The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Terrified": Gas Company Sues to Destroy Small Town's Rights of Nature Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on December 18, 2020, 9:34 am
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- Law Jessica Corbett, 15 December 2020 (quote) In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has - yet again - filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania. This is the second time that Pennsylvania General Energy Company (PGE) has sued over the 2015 law, which aims to keep fracking waste injection wells out of the community of about 700 people. Though the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) also previously sued the township, earlier this year - in what Rolling Stone described as a "stunning reversal" - the department cited the law when rescinding PGE a waste injection permit. In March, the state department told the company - which is appealing the decision - that "Grant Township's Home Rule Charter bans the injection of oil and gas waste fluids... Therefore, the operation of the Yanity well as an oil and gas waste fluid injection well would violate that applicable law." (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/15/fossil-fuel-industry-terrified-gas-company-sues-destroy-small-towns-rights-nature |
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