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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts) Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:45 AM Jun 2014

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New York’s highest court has just upheld the right of towns to ban fracking within their borders!

Some good news on this terrible day for justice:

Albany, NY — Local communities have triumphed over the fracking industry in precedent-setting case decided today by the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court.
In a test case pitting community rights against the oil and gas industry, the Court ruled that the towns of Dryden and Middlefield can use local zoning laws to ban heavy industry, including oil and gas operations, within municipal borders.

http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2014/ny-communities-triumph-over-fracking-industry-in-precedent-setting-case

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New York’s highest court has just upheld the right of towns to ban fracking within their borders! (Original Post) MoonRiver Jun 2014 OP

Does this cover the way the TPP will work? I believe foreign companies can sue djean111 Jun 2014 #1

I don't know. MoonRiver Jun 2014 #2

What I fear is that countires and states and cities and such will be passing all these laws, and the djean111 Jun 2014 #3

The question remains whether TPP trumps state's rights. MoonRiver Jun 2014 #5

Major victory! Harmony Blue Jun 2014 #4

djean111

(14,255 posts)

1. Does this cover the way the TPP will work? I believe foreign companies can sue

Reply to MoonRiver (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:51 AM

Jun 2014

and have the matter decided by a hand-picked court of corporate lawyers.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

2. I don't know.

Reply to djean111 (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:54 AM

Jun 2014

Hopefully somebody more knowledgeable will answer.

djean111

(14,255 posts)

3. What I fear is that countires and states and cities and such will be passing all these laws, and the

Reply to MoonRiver (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:56 AM

Jun 2014

new trade pacts will just ignore them.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

5. The question remains whether TPP trumps state's rights.

Reply to djean111 (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:57 AM

Jun 2014

Harmony Blue

(3,978 posts)

4. Major victory!

Reply to MoonRiver (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:56 AM

Jun 2014

Very good news.

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