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by RUSSELL MOKHIBER
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/13/criminalize-fracking/
Activists in New York have drafted legislation that would criminalize the practice of hydraulic fracturing – also known as fracking.
The law was drafted by the Sovereign People Action Network (SPAN) of Ulster and Green counties.
“In early summer, seeing so many anti-fracking people across the state pouring their time, resources and hopes into the State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), we began drafting a law to rip decision making from this illegitimate agency, and drive it into our state legislature,” Richard Grossman, one of the members of SPAN, told Corporate Crime Reporter.
“Our law criminalizes fracking and fracking-related activities,” Grossman said. “Corporate frackers would be Class C felons.”
“In August, a bunch of anti-frackers from different parts of the state, representing various anti-fracking groups, participated in three sequential workshops I presented on at the New York Green Fest gathering in Western New York,” Grossman said.
“Some decided to join SPAN on criminalization.”