B-CAUSE (Bucks Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction)

Category: Legislation

  • Good Fences do NOT Make Fracking a Good Neighbor

    Better regulation is not the answer. Nothing good happens to the neighborhood when fracking comes. Bad air, bad roads, bad water, noise, illness, and it’s hurting Mother Earth too. The drill-baby-drill crowd will lie, cheat, deceive, and leave a mess for others to clean up.

    As fracking turns 20 in Pennsylvania, towns consider new regulations for distance between homes and well pads
    Tom Casciola began Cecil’s fourth oil and gas ordinance hearing with a piece of advice he received on his first day as township supervisor, some…

  • Politics and Fracking

    Here’s the CBS News explanation of why the issue is controversial.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/video/why-fracking-is-a-major-issue-for-securing-pennsylvania-voters

  • CBS Discusses Fracking and Politics

    Here is CBS News on the pros and cons of fracking and politics. What do you think?

  • Politics and Fracking

    The Energy Industry influence on politics is reminiscent of the tobacco lobby and the gun lobby. Politicians fear opposing them. Voters must discern which candidates are least likely to allow more damage to be done by the “drill baby, drill” crowd.

    Fracking still stains Dimock as candidates spar over gas drilling
    Susquehanna County environmental activists hope new environmental research center will controversial technology’s future use

  • What You Can Do . . .

    Penn Environment is working to stop fracking by opposing legislation that enables it. The energy lobby is relentless and covert. Give this call to action some attention and thought.

    2024-09-09-PennEnvironmentDownload

  • It All Comes to this…

    Celebrated naturalist and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough speaks at COP26 Climate Summit. Watch:

  • It’s Not You Who’s Being Represented

    Here is yet another example of how our representative government is failing to protect the common good and serve the interests of We the People:

    A Resolution Condemning Pipeline Challengers Passed Easily. A Pipeline Lobbyist Wrote It. — ProPublica
    ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

  • Elcon Rejected by Falls

    The Falls Township supervisors did the right thing despite the prospect of being sued by Elcon. They voted unanimously to deny Elcon’s application.

    Any applicant has the right to seek relief from the courts, and Elcon is no exception. Their decision to do so will be based on a number of considerations:

    • The cost in time and money.
    • The prospect of prevailing.
    • Collateral decisions by PA DEP.
    • The costs of complying with construction codes and a hostile enforcement body.
    • Ongoing citizen opposition.

    Environmental organizations should now prepare to put their money behind Falls should there be litigation. It’s not just the Elcon matter. At issue is the constitutional right of townships to act to protect the environment. Prevailing in a litigation will discourage those who wish to dismiss locals who oppose such things as pipelines, fracking, and other dangerous uses of land.

  • Felony to Protest? Evils of SB652

    Pennsylvania is deeply and corruptly enmeshed with fossil energy interests. There is a bill pending, SB652, to make pipeline protests a felony on a par with assault.
     
    Keep in mind that the products pipeline interests want to bring to market should be kept in the ground for the sake of our children. Not only do they damage health, but their use anywhere on the planet will destroy coastal real estate and much of Florida. Pipelines use government power to take private land for private use. 
    Nothing good comes to those in their path. So there are lots of excellent reasons for activists and property owners to risk jail. The pipeline interests want to up the ante.
    Don’t be silent! Call your rep.

  • Jim Greenwood – Gerrymandering

    What’s gerrymandering got to do with Fracking? Everything.  They, the legislators, don’t listen to you when you protest fracking because they don’t have to. The are safe and secure regardless of how you vote. Here is Jim Greenwood explaining why…


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