July 14, 2014
Predictably, the Shale Shyster’s Publicity Stunt that was bankrolled by the Koch Brothers, got tossed on summary judgement. They claimed they had been damaged somehow (but no sum was specified) by an environmental review process - which they were not harmed by, environmentally, any more than anyone else. So they had no standing to challenge the review process based on environmental grounds. Their lawsuit was flawed from the outset since it was billed as a regulatory takings claim, even though it never had any substance as a takings. And they lacked standing on environmental grounds to bring an Article 78 challenge against an environmental regulation, because they did not address what was wrong with the proposed regs from an environmental standpoint. In fact, none the plaintiffs had ever bothered to comment on the dSGEIS review that […]
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May 31, 2014
There’s a cottage industry of Shale Shysters and Fracking Chicken Hawks that continue to milk landowners of donations - in hopes of getting fracked some decade soon. And then there are the frack-sniffing news letters, like Marcellus Drilled for Dummies. Here is their take on the Dryden /Middlefield Home Rule showdown at the Supremes in Albany next week: http://marcellusdrilling.com/2014/05/pivotal-court-date-next-week-for-future-of-ny-fracking/ What we have in our favor: Four of the seven judges that will hear the case next Tuesday are appointees by (sic) former Republican Gov. George Pataki. That doesn’t mean it’s a shoo-in, but it does mean we’ll get a fair hearing. Implying that the eight (8) justices - some of whom are Republicans- that have already heard these cases did not give it a “fair hearing” ? Or that Home Rule - which is […]
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