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Calling on the City and the City Council of Philadelphia to support, as Friend of the Court, consolidated lawsuits brought by the Attorney General of the State of New York and others against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) and involved federal agencies to require that no drilling of Marcellus Shale take place until a full environmental analysis is completed.
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WHEREAS, On March 25, 2010, the City Council of Philadelphia adopted Resolution 100209, sponsored by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, which called on the Delaware River Basin Commission to halt hydraulic fracturing operations until a full environmental impact assessment has been conducted; and
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 100515 (adopted June 17, 2010) authorized Council's Joint Committees on Transportation and Public Utilities and the Environment to hold a hearing on the economic and environmental impacts that hydraulic drilling of Marcellus Shale will have on Philadelphia and the surrounding region; and
WHEREAS, On September 28, 2010, the Joint Committees on Transportation and Public Utilities and the Environment held the hearing authorized by Resolution No. 100515; and
WHEREAS, On October 14, 2010, Councilmembers Curtis Jones, Jr. and Blondell Reynolds Brown wrote to the DRBC requesting that the Commission halt hydro-drilling (fracking) and not issue draft regulations governing any project related to gas drilling in the basin at any time prior to the completion of the EPA study or its own cumulative impact study stating that "science should guide environmental policy, placing the horse of science before the cart of policy,"; and
WHEREAS, On December 15, 2010, Council's Joint Committees on Transportation and Public Utilities and the Environment adopted a final report, and issued said report to the full Council where on January 27, 2011 the Philadelphia City Council passed Resolution 100864-A adopting the aforementioned report; and
WHEREAS, The first recommendation ...
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