To the Editor:
If the oil and gas industry is more likely to be drilling for oil than fracking for gas in and around Bowling Green [Geologist Robert Vincent, Sentinel-Tribune, 7/26/2013, p. 5], it becomes even more urgent to get the Citizens' Bill of Rights petition on the ballot, doesn't it? So that everybody, instead of just a few, has a voice in the matter?
I can't imagine what will happen to our property values if there is unlimited, unregulated oil drilling going on inside and around the city.
Since the state has denied city councils and local communities control of all oil and gas industry activity, this amendment to the city charter might be one way to give some control back to the city and to ordinary citizens.
I'm not sure why the seven items listed in the proposed amendment are "totally out of sync" with our city charter [Mayor Edwards, Sentinel-Tribune, July 26, p. 5].
1. Right to Pure Water
2. Right to Clean Air
3. Right to Peaceful Enjoyment of Home
If the oil and gas industry is more likely to be drilling for oil than fracking for gas in and around Bowling Green [Geologist Robert Vincent, Sentinel-Tribune, 7/26/2013, p. 5], it becomes even more urgent to get the Citizens' Bill of Rights petition on the ballot, doesn't it? So that everybody, instead of just a few, has a voice in the matter?
I can't imagine what will happen to our property values if there is unlimited, unregulated oil drilling going on inside and around the city.
Since the state has denied city councils and local communities control of all oil and gas industry activity, this amendment to the city charter might be one way to give some control back to the city and to ordinary citizens.
I'm not sure why the seven items listed in the proposed amendment are "totally out of sync" with our city charter [Mayor Edwards, Sentinel-Tribune, July 26, p. 5].
1. Right to Pure Water
2. Right to Clean Air
3. Right to Peaceful Enjoyment of Home