Towns in New York Can Prohibit Fracking, State’s Highest Court Rules

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/nyregion/towns-may-ban-fracking-new-york-state-high-court-rules.html?_r=0

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In a decision with far-reaching implications for the future of natural gas drilling in New York State, its highest court ruled on Monday that towns can use zoning ordinances to ban hydraulic fracturing, the controversial extraction method known as fracking.
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There was also a well-attended anti-fracking demo in midtown Manhattan this eve. across from the Hyatt where Cuomo was attending a Democratic party event.

[djean111]

1. I am afraid the TPP will render that ruling as adorable but toothless.

Hope I am wrong.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/27-8

Corporation Uses NAFTA to Sue Canada for $250 Million Over Fracking Ban
Delaware company uses trade agreement to have profit trump environmental interests
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As Jeff Gray reports in the Globe and Mail, NAFTA allows "U.S. and Mexican companies to sue Ottawa if they feel they have been wronged by a government policy or action."

The company filed on Nov. 8 its arbitration intent (pdf) "under Article 1117 of the NAFTA for the arbitrary, capricious, and illegal revocation of the Enterprise's valuable right to mine for oil and gas under the St. Lawrence River by the Government of Quebec without due process, without compensation, and with no cognizable public purpose."
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