The Mother of All Anti-Fracking Tools: community rights tested in Mora, New Mexico.
“Does a community’s right to self-governance trump the rights of corporations? The county ordinance’s basic aim is to protect the water supply in a parched region of a drought-stricken state, but it also contains a bill of rights for the environment, which argues that natural ecosystems ‘possess inalienable and fundamental rights to exist.’” (Read more….)
