Monday, May 18, 2015

TEXAS OILMEN GOT MAD: NEW TEXAS GOP-SPONSORED LAW BANS CITIES FROM BANNING FRACKING, DRILLING




MAY 18, 2015

AUSTIN, TEXAS (AP)

Messy Texas.  If the high pollution, high road death rates, high property insurance rates, high homicides, biker gangs, tornados, hail and floods are not enough, now the new moron in the governor’s office signed into “law” a piece of crappy paper that declares that locals cannot ban fracking and other nuisances from their communities.   

These are the same individuals who let the motherfrackers do what they want without much regulation and now many of them are bankrupt, bust and gone.  This insanity must stop, but in deaf Texan’s door you can knock as many times as you want, as the old saying goes.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a prohibition on cities and towns imposing local ordinances preventing fracking and other potentially environmentally harmful oil and natural gas activities.

The much-watched measure sailed through the GOP-controlled Legislature after voters in Denton, a university town near Dallas, banned hydraulic fracturing locally in November.

The new law limits not only the Denton ban but other actions communities could take limiting energy industry activities. It was backed by oil and gas concerns.
Abbott said Monday he was protecting private property rights from the "heavy hand of local regulation."

He saw no contradiction in new state regulations superseding local voters' will, saying he believes "individuals have a much better idea how to run their own lives than do a bunch of government officials."