If enough of these cases get in front of a judge, there is a chance we could start to have an impact within the judiciary, and if a town goes bankrupt trying to defend one of our ordinances, well, perhaps that's exactly what is needed to trigger a national movement.

Thomas Linzey

Categorized in : Environment

Basically, Lake Erie is dying, and no one is helping, and this is the first time this type of law has been applied to this type of ecosystem.

Our belief is that these communities don't have a fracking problem, they have a democracy problem, our premise is that you can't win against the oil and gas industry using the existing legal structure, so the structure needs to be changed.