Archive for March 2012
The rich really are different: infographic
And Tony Shin, who specializes in “infographics and the like” as a senior marketing analyst and project manager at Pop Media Labs, illustrates why:
Stopping fracking one town at a time
Image by billb1961 via Flickr CC
An excellent way to put a stop to fracking is to do it town by town and county by county.
New York Supreme Court Justice Phillip R. Rumsey ruled last month that the Town of Dryden, NY has the right to adopt zoning rules that prohibit natural gas drilling that uses the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, method of extraction.
In Anschutz Exploration Corporation v. the Town of Dryden and the Town of Dryden Town Board, Rumsey concluded that the town’s zoning ordinances are not preempted by the state’s Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law. Read the rest of this entry »
