{"id":24053,"date":"2014-04-02T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=329131"},"modified":"2014-04-02T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:53:37","slug":"court-order-allows-fracking-company-to-ban-local-woman-from-40-percent-of-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/court-order-allows-fracking-company-to-ban-local-woman-from-40-percent-of-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Order Allows Fracking Company to Ban Local Woman From 40 Percent of County"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/veraFI-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"veraFI\"><\/p>\n<p>In Oct. 2013, Cabot Oil and Gas obtained an injunction against Vera Scroggins, who has&nbsp;been bringing the dangers of <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">fracking<\/a> to public attention for the last five years through her videos&nbsp;and bus tours of fracking sites in the county where she lives, Susquehanna County, PA.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_329156\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/04\/02\/fracking-company-bans-woman-from-county\/verafi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-329156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"veraFI\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/veraFI.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/a> Vera Scroggins in front of a drilling rig in Dimock Township, PA. Photo credit: James Pitarresi[\/caption]\n<p>The injunction prohibited Vera from going, not only on the land Cabot owns, but also on&nbsp;the land where Cabot leases the subsurface mineral rights, comprising 40 percent of the county&rsquo;s&nbsp;properties. This means that Vera has been effectively barred from going to her grocery store,&nbsp;a number of businesses in town, her local hospital and some of her friends homes.<\/p>\n<p>On March 24, a hearing was held before President Judge Kenneth W. Seamans, who issued&nbsp;the injunction in October, to consider whether it should be modified or lifted. Cabot proposed&nbsp;adding buffer zones of 150 and 500 feet to further restrict Vera&rsquo;s movements. A press conference&nbsp;was held afterward. Following lunch with her supporters, Vera drove to her friend Craig Stevens&rsquo; house for a telephone&nbsp;press conference. On the way there, <a href=\"http:\/\/theenvironmenttv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environment TV<\/a> interviewed her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On March 28, Judge Seamans delivered his ruling.<\/p>\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A2EsS8GGzz4#t=98[\/embed]\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/03\/17\/largest-anti-fracking-rally-california\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Largest Anti-Fracking Rally in California History Draws Thousands<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/03\/04\/americas-fracking-boom-from-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>America&#8217;s Fracking Boom Looks More Like a Blip According to European Study<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/03\/20\/udated-fracking-vs-american-dream-resource-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Fracking Destroys the American Dream<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57,99],"tags":[2903,2644,2906],"class_list":["post-24053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","category-pennsylvania","tag-energy","tag-fracking","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}