Editorial: Drillers must accept zoning  Courts keep upholding
the rights of municipalities to ban hydraulic fracturing,
something that should be comforting to anyone who shares the
widespread perception that we are losing our rights and the
control our own destiny.  As the courts repeatedly have found,
local governments elected by local people have the right to
enact zoning laws to control land use. The state has the right
to regulate drilling for oil and gas, but that right comes only
if the local zoning permits such activity. It's a simple
concept, one that the oil and gas industry objects to because it
gets in the way of their profits. It's time the industry learned
this lesson and stopped trying to go where it is not wanted.
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