Texas

Powerful people wanted to strip coal and frack for gas on our pristine watershed, our entire town got behind protecting our watershed.

We fought them even though the majority of the law was on their side thanks to Dick Cheney. We did protect our watershed by putting many restrictions on them.

While I was on council I got the members of our zoning board together, we went to a zoning information seminar at Penn State. We then wrote up a flood plain ordinance for our borough, we put many restrictions on what can be done in the flood plains inside our borough. I remember we even added a section that stated that people outside our borough couldn't do activities that polluted our flood plain.

What made me laugh is that our solicitor charged the borough 500 dollars to approve our flood plain ordinance and it was his dad who wanted to strip coal on our watershed, he couldn't have even read the ordinance.