Awesome. It would seem that our Corporate Overlords are winning the right to trump our right to say NO to fracking. Texas has just passed laws which ban the ability of towns and cities to ban fracking. Yes you heard that right, they cannot say "no" to groundwater polluting, earthquake causing environmental destruction in their own towns.
http://www.bbc.com/...
The law was drafted after voters in Denton, a city outside Dallas, banned "hydraulic fracturing" locally in 2014.
Fracking opponents warn that potential carcinogens used in the extraction process may contaminate groundwater.
Similar bills are being considered in US states including Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Soooo, there are people who now have no right to say no to a corporation regarding a dangerous, polluting practice that can poison the entire area and cause earthquakes? And Republicans have the audacity to call the anti-fracking laws "heavy handed:"
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the anti-fracking measures heavy handed regulations.
"This law ensures that Texas avoids a patchwork quilt of regulations that differ from region to region, differ from county to county or city to city," Mr Abbott said.
Well, yeah. Some people don't want their drinking water to catch on fire thank you very much. A bit more ranting after the fold.
What the actual hell? Is it not enough that they can deny my the ability to buy birth control, can donate as much money to whatever campaign or political office they want to buy, and control every other aspect of our lives. But now everyday people are at the mercy of corporations who clearly do not care about the health and welfare of the ACTUAL PEOPLE who live in the United States. Time and time again our Corporate Overlords poison us, kill us and try to control us. I am so tired of being controlled and killed by beings THAT ARE NOT PEOPLE. How is it even constitutional that the people of an area do not have the right to tell a corporation they don't want their water and air polluted, or to have their house crumble in an earthquake?
All you get are deniers that claim the process is safe. Yes, just like cigarettes were "safe" or that car part that no one recalled because it was cheaper to let people die and pay settlements than it was to recall the product. How do we fix this?