Pittsburgh council bans natural gas drilling

[phantom power]

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Pittsburgh City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban natural gas drilling in the city amid concern about threats to water quality.

By a vote of 9-0, the council adopted an ordinance that would prevent any energy company from drilling a gas well within city limits.

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The vote reflects concern about possible water and air contamination from hydraulic fracturing, an extraction technique that has enabled a boom in gas drilling in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation.

"This is a dangerous activity to be doing in a densely populated area," he said. "The industry is in total denial about its impacts. All they care about is jobs and money."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101116/us_nm/us_pittsburgh_gas_drilling

[katnapped]

1. Corbett will overturn that soon enough

After all, big business knows what's best for people!

:sarcasm:

[dana_b]

2. the rights of nature over the rights of corporate personhood

this is a good article too:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/pittsburg-bans-natural-gas-drilling

It takes a town of tough steel workers to stand up to this immoral and twisted deciion by the Sureme Court and to stand up for their own best interests.

K&R