Olive Defense Against Fracking
Friday, April 20, 2012
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Olive Defense Against Fracking (ODAF)
Local Group Takes Action
by Proposing a Rights-Based Town Ordinance
We are Town of Olive residents concerned about the possibility of Hydraulic Fracturing coming to our area. All of Ulster County sits on a natural-gas bearing formation called the Utica Shale.
In
the face of increasing scientific evidence revealing the dangers to our WATER,
AIR, ROADS, LOCAL ECONOMIES and WAY OF LIFE posed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) by drilling
for natural gas, Town of Olive residents are asserting their RIGHTS TO
PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM HARM through passing a local law based on our
Inalienable Rights as espoused in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of
Rights.
The
RIGHTS-based Ordinance is modeled on
a local law passed by the City of Pittsburgh. The
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, CELDF is a regional
pro bono law group based in Pennsylvania, helping us in this effort. They
have helped 130 towns and cities to prevent corporate incursions that would
irrevocably harm them, and have been successful in having their ordinances
upheld.
We are creating “a
network of people committed to securing the right to local, community
self-government, the reversal of political, legal, and cultural doctrines that
interfere with that right, and the creation of a new system and doctrines that
support that right.”
According to CELDF, it’s
necessary to stay a step ahead of corporate challenges. A local law based on a Bill of Rights
does not accord any legal rights or powers within the community higher than the
right of the community to protect the water, air, land and lives of its
residents. It declares that
state-issued permits that violate the Bill of Rights section of the ordinance
are invalid within the municipality.
A Community
Bill of Rights creates a framework that fosters economic and environmental
sustainability at the community level. It’s not complicated. The ordinances
turn the myth of popular sovereignty into reality. With the fracking boom in
full swing, and our communities becoming resource colonies for a corporations, if the time isn’t now, then when will it be? If our communities
are not the ones to lead the way, then who will? How long will we continue to
allow corporate directors, in complicity with federal and state legislators, to
govern our communities?
Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund:
www.celdf.org
Olive Defense Against Fracking
ODAF@gmail.org
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ODAF@gmail.org
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