Sentences with phrase «local fracking bans»

He also said that fracking serves as an excellent example of how community activists grapple with contentious energy issues and the environment, particularly because of recent legislation that makes local fracking bans illegal in states such as Texas.

Today's victory confirms that each of these towns is on firm legal ground,» said Helen Slottje, an Ithaca - based attorney whose legal research inspired New York's local fracking ban groundswell and who was honored with the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize.

Not exact matches

But Mount Gambier mayor Alan Lee said the fracking ban was backed by an overwhelming number of people in the local community.

The delays also gave local efforts to ban fracking time to get traction in towns like Dryden; today Martens claimed those legal hurdles were greatly reducing the acreage available for fracking.

As for other town business, Leifeld noted that the town's upcoming monthly meeting next week would include discussion of, and probable passage of a local law banning the technique known as hydrofracking in Olive, furthering a move the town started last April when it adopted a moratorium against fracking.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

Local municipalities played a pivotal role in the larger ban on fracking in New York by prohibiting the practice in their own backyards.

Stringer's amicus is in support of the upstate town of Dryden, which two years ago banned fracking under a local «home - rule» provision.

According to the study, «screenings of Gasland in different locations had an effect on the mobilization of local campaigns against the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing; in turn, those local mobilizations made local policymakers significantly more likely to take action to ban the practice of fracking.»

ALEC is also the force behind the increased use of «preemption» laws designed to strip local governments of their power to ban fracking, pass minimum wage hikes, and enact earned sick day laws.

These same local building blocks that New Yorkers used in their fight to ban fracking are being put to use right now across the country, in states like Texas and California.

After over six years of campaigning against fracking by Friends of the Earth Scotland and local communities, the Scottish government announced on 3 October to effectively ban unconventional oil and gas extraction - in short: fracking — in the whole country.

The state legislature wants to stop local governments from banning fracking in their communities.

On one level the Cuomo plan seems like a decent compromise (presuming you assume a complete ban is off the table), appealing both to environmental sense (the areas were reportedly selected to minimize risk of groundwater contamination), local control (the towns can opt out part), as well as economic justice (the areas where fracking would be allowed are some of the poorest rural areas of the state).

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The company, which has faced local opposition in the rest of the UK is trying to overturn the Scottish ban which doesn't involve legislation but is an instruction to local authorities not to consent planning for any fracking - related activities.

That boom may also last a little longer, as the state recently put an end to local government's ability to ban fracking.