Anti-fracking activist banned from Pennsylvania land heads to court

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Anti-fracking activist banned from Pennsylvania land heads to court

BY DAVID DEKOK
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:01am EDT

(Reuters) - An anti-fracking activist is set to ask a Pennsylvania judge on Monday to lift an injunction that bars her from her local hospital, grocery and other properties that sit atop vast lands leased by a Texas-based company for shale gas extraction.

A five-month-old injunction prohibits Vera Scroggins, 63, of Brackney, Pennsylvania, from setting foot onto 40 percent of Susquehanna County that is leased by Cabot Oil and Gas.

At Monday's hearing in Susquehanna County Court of Common Pleas in Montrose, Pennsylvania, Scroggins and her lawyers from the Pennsylvania ACLU and Public Citizen in Washington, D.C., will argue that the injunction was legally flawed, unconstitutional, and set a dangerous precedent by making much of the region where she lives off limits.

Judge Kenneth Seamans, who issued the injunction in October at the request of Cabot, will rule on the request.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/24/us-usa-pennsylvania-fracking-idUSBREA2N05H20140324

[Champion Jack]

1. This is absolutely disgraceful

I hope Vera kicks their corporate asses

[LiberalEsto]

2. In Pennsylvania, "mineral rights" seem to outweigh all other rights

These frackers seem to be able to do whatever they want.

[Champion Jack]

5. same here in WV

[pscot]

3. Corporations are the enemy

[adirondacker]

4. I just received an invite to the screening of a recent documentary "Triple Divide"

http://tripledividefilm.org/

It's pretty disheartening when the government agencies that are created to protect are bought out and are corrupt.