wastewater injection

CELDF: Breaking: Rights of Nature Law Forces Pennsylvania to Revoke Industry Permit

Climate, Community Rights, Groundwater, Health / January 9, 2023

Yes we can! “Yet, in a stunning about-face, DEP enforced Grant’s law and rescinded the injection well permit, last week. “Grant Township’s Home Rule Charter bans the injection of oil and gas waste fluids,” the DEP writes. “Therefore, the operation of the Yanity well as an oil and gas waste fluid injection well would violate …

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US District Court for Western Pennsylvania: Corporations have more rights than citizens

Climate, Groundwater, Health, News, Resources / January 8, 2018

It’s official, citizens are now fodder for corporations. “Magistrate Judge Susan Baxter earlier found that the Township’s prohibition on injection wells violated the corporation’s constitutional rights”. Judge Baxter with this ruling you should have to drink the water at Grant Township…..shame on you! Court Awards $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company and Calls for Disciplinary Action Against Attorney Press …

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