Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Victory In Pennsylvania  Print
Friendly  Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Cancellation of Gas
Leases and Drilling Plans in NE Pennsylvania  Unprecedented mass
lease cancellation occurs near homes of some of fractivism’s
most effective mobilizers.   The offer on the table in Fox’s
corner of Wayne County, PA was part of the first incursion of
fracking into the Northeastern U.S. The arrival of landsmen— the
gas company representatives offering quick and easy money with
no downside if people signed away the mineral rights to their
land, had already been going on in the Western U.S. As it plays
out road by road, town by town, and state by state, fracking
baldly reveals the downsides of the myth of American
individualism. Americans prize the right to do what they want on
their property. But other people’s rights wind up violated when
what Neighbor A chooses to do contaminates the water supply,
impinges on the quality of life, or destroys the property value
of Neighbor B.  And that