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As 2018 winds down, a case proceeds in Federal court to rescue Upper Delaware landowners from DRBC tryranny and takings. The spirit of the eagle lives!
The American Bald Eagle is the stern symbol of liberty, the spirit of resistance to tyranny. And, there are American Bald Eagles everywhere in the Upper Delaware Valley, where a special brand of tyranny—DRBC tyranny—has been temporarily imposed at the behest of an East Coast gentry class and its all too infamous shills. Those eagles include not only those of the Haliaeetus leucocephalus species, but also those falling into the class of Liber homines; the free men and women determined to fight this DRBC tyranny.
DRBC tyranny has taken two forms. One is the scam the agency has played for the better part of a decade; pretending to be studying and revising regulations that would allow gas drilling in the basin while taking money to do so from the very people fighting to stop gas drilling. The other is the proposed fracking ban, which is the DRBC Plan B in the event the agency ultimately loses the lawsuit filed by the Wayne Land and Mineral Group (WLMG). Both are DRBC exercises in pure Machiavellian stye power designed to quash the rights of landowners.
But, the Upper Delaware citizenry is fighting back, taking a stand for liberty, just like this American Bald Eagle perched on the property of the Sutliff family in Northern Wayne County:
The citizenry is fighting back through the WLMG lawsuit. Although opponents are quick to suggest it is an industry lawsuit, it is entirely funded by landowners. It is, in fact the people’s lawsuit, the industry having zero reason to be involved given how many opportunities there are to drill elsewhere. Only the people have the incentive to fight back against DRBC tyranny and they are doing it by donating cash and mineral rights to the cause. Their prospects are also good, the case being in a fact-finding stage at the moment.
This is why the DRBC tyrants are focused on the Plan B fracking ban. Will they actually do it? Perhaps, but their case on that score is not only very weak, but also compromised from the outset. It may, in fact, have only been an election year bluff. We’ll see. If a ban is enacted that is also likely to bring in industry money because the DRBC will be in the impossible position of trying to justify not doing a fracking ban in the SRBC region given that it is governed largely by the same people.
That prospect is a huge threat to the industry and would likely necessitate its involvement in fighting a DRBC fracking ban if one should ever be foolishly enacted. A ban, ironically, would supply the missing industry incentive to fight. Don’t imagine the DRBC Commissioners don’t know that.
Meanwhile, the people’s lawsuit, the WLMG lawsuit, will proceed ever so slowly through the courts. The DRBC and the Delaware Riverkeeper a/k/a Povertykeeper, both funded by the gentry class William Penn Foundation, will also continue to fight to deny DRBC landowners the same rights SRBC landowners have. They are snakes biting at the heels of the Upper Delaware citizenry, while the eagles—the citizens funding the lawsuit—keep defending liberty. That’s what the case is all about; the rights of property for equal justice under law. May the eagles soar:
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