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Oil Company's Restraining Order Bars Anti-Fracking Protestor From GroceryStore, Friends' Houses (Click here to read more)
By
Emily Atkin
March 26, 2014
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In
October of 2013, Cabot Oil & Gas secured a court order that
effectively banned an anti-fracking activist from entering any land
owned or leased by the company. But because of the broad scope of the
court order, that activist is now claiming she legally can't go to
the grocery store, the hospital, restaurants, and even her friends'
homes.
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"It's
tough to try to figure out, where can I stand? Where can I walk?"
Vera Scroggins told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "It's not a
pleasant thing to endure."
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Cabot,
one of the biggest names in Pennsylvania's natural gas rush, had
sought a preliminary injunction against Scroggins in October after
alleging that she had repeatedly trespassed onto several of the
company's leased and owned properties, giving unauthorized tours of
their operations. After hearing testimony from employees and security
personnel, Susquehanna County Judge Kenneth Seamans granted Cabot's
request to have Scroggins legally barred from not only the land Cabot
owns, but from all the land it holds mineral leases on.
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The
problem with that, according to Scroggins' attorneys, is that nearly
40 percent of Susquehanna County land is owned or leased by Cabot.
This includes the grocery store, the local recycling center, the
hospital that is nearest to her home, and several of her friends'
houses.
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"In
short, the right to extract gas is, according to the company, also
the right to banish," Scroggins' attorneys said in a motion
asking Susquehanna County Judge Kenneth Seamans to undo his October
order.
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