Read the article in the Courier Times today. You’ll not only get a great overview of what’s afoot here.  You will gain an important lesson in the down and dirty world of money and influence in government.  Ostensibly, it’s about a ban on fracking in the Delaware Basin. but the DRBC decision was to propose rule-making, not ban fracking.

Between now and November, DRBC staff will be drafting language for regulations to govern not just drilling operations, but also the taking of water from the river to be used in fracking and also the disposal of the contaminated waste water.  Our watchdog groups like the Delaware Riverkeeper Network smell a rat. The general public has no opportunity for influence until the proposed regulations are written.  But the politicians and lobbyists will be hard at it, working to influence the phrasing and content of those rules.  We’d like to think that common sense and science would prevail.  But that is rarely the case. it will be very difficult for We the People to be heard in this process.

Courier-Times Photo of the Crowd

Stay tuned.  If you snooze, we lose.