Court stops frackers' "violence to the landscape"

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     "As the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently noted, the technique used to recover the natural gas contained in Marcellus Shale 'inevitably' does 'violence to the landscape'....

     "Citizens' rights cannot be ignored and must be protected."

     -- From the below-mentioned August 29 court ruling 

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     The environmental group PennFuture is hailing a judge's ruling last week that threw out a township decision allowing natural-gas wells to be drilled in an area zoned residential.

     Judge Marc F. Lovecchio's Aug. 29 opinion is the first known to cite a December state Supreme Court ruling that rejuvenated a 1972 amendment to the state Constitution guaranteeing citizens a right to clean air and pure water."

     -- From “Semirural neighborhood becomes Marcellus Shale zoning battleground,” by Andrew Maykuth, at this September 6, 2014 Philadelphia Inquirer site: http://articles.philly.com/2014-09-06/business/53606309_1_gas-drilling-marcellus-shale-lovecchio 

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Fracker-funded Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett:

     Pa. State Senator Jim Ferlo: "This administration gives away the profits from our natural resources while simultaneously destroying our parks, ruining home property values, causing catastrophic health problems, and violating our water sources."

     Justice Louis D. Brandeis: “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”