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."