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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease DU this poll from WSJ - "Should Towns be allowed to use Zoning to ban Fracking?"
Here: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2014/06/17/wsj-poll-should-towns-be-allowed-to-use-zoning-regulations-to-ban-fracking/
As a past local government official, I want to tell you that zoning districts should reflect the best use of land management. You cannot have the state (as PA tried to do) come in and usurp local government's decision on how that land should be managed.
Please join me in the ban of such land use. We've almost gone insane over the ALEC written legislation here that will be the death of us, if we don't weigh in.
hlthe2b
(102,491 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)hlthe2b
(102,491 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thanks!
crim son
(27,464 posts)One third of Americans are complete morons.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Keeps popping up in various venues.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Thanks!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Thanks, WillyT!
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)Done
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thanks!
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thanks!
marew
(1,588 posts)Thanks!
PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thanks!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Then we'll see how long they last with the "harmless" fracking fluid.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I dare say, they'd have someone drink it for them.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)66% vote YES!
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)This was steady a few % below, infused with DU, I believe.
shanine
(354 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thanks
frylock
(34,825 posts)66% yes
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thanks!
Frank1
(52 posts)But I don't think it should.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)
by allowing what passed in Pennsylvania's Act 13 to be followed... that zoning WAS to be dictated. The Municipal Planning Code of 1968 was well written and was my bible on this. But the MPC was virtually non-compliable with Act 13, which challenges under the law how one industry can violate zoning rules with dictating land use. Zoning is based on the Police Powers Act that we were duty bound to abide by. If I as a local councilwoman were to comply with the chapter on zoning, I could never comply with Act 13 of PA.
I happen to know that you could count on ONE HAND with fingers left over the number of PA legislators who had actually read it prior to passing it under the heavily lobbied gas hole culture coming out of Harrisburg.
Something, eh?
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Done!
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)A, B & C?
Good one...
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)wind farms. so I don't see why not.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)As the 32% who say no probably think.
thucythucy
(8,109 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)67 - 32 now.
I live in Fracklevania. I hate what corbutt is doing to our beautiful state.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I've only lived in Pbg area since 98, but
I've traveled recently across the turnpike
My, oh
what are they doing to our farms?
How many lies can you count? Too many
I see it's climbing
EXCELLENT!
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)Standing at 67.4 / 1,855 votes yes to 32.6 / 896 no.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,411 posts)appleannie1
(5,074 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)In NC, the two main counties they listed were my county, Richmond, and the county next to us, Anson. Anson went ahead and made it so they cannot do fracking over there. The idiot who is our state representative is gung ho to begin fracking in my county. So, no such luck here. Still, if we can vote his ass out and replace him with a more reasonable rep, maybe we could do that here too before it is too late. I really don't want flammable water, destroyed forests, and cancer just so some assholes can get rich.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)They are being lobbied by ALEC.
We need to stop them. I feel the same
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)WhiteTara
(29,730 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,398 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Gotta turn in!
emsimon33
(3,128 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)Done!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)And, thank you, too, although I see it's back to 66%, it doesn't seem to drop much from this stat.
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thank you!
Rhiannon12866
(206,592 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Thank YOU!