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[[Image:FrackingRickSnyder.jpg|left|150pxframe|Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder]]<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11179 New York Should Become the First State 11217 Michigan Senate Works to Thwart Effort to Ban FrackingSuspend Financial Martial Law]</h3>''Guest article by Adelaide Park Gomer, president of the Park Foundation''[[Anne Landman]]<br> Recently my daughter, Alicia, and I took an evening flight from Philadelphia A group called Michigan Forward is [http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20111207/METRO01/112070349/Drive-to-reverse-emergency-manager-law-gears-up working] to Ithaca. While over Pennsylvaniagather nearly 200, we noticed that a once-beautiful wilderness area was 000 signatures between now dotted and lit up by blinding white lights and eerily disturbing gas flares. There were too many fracking operations March to count. New York State will go get a measure on the way of Pennsylvania unless we continue ballot to take a stand against one of repeal Michigan's new strict emergency financial manager (EFM) law. The current law, passed in March, 2011, lets the greatest environmental atrocities of our generationgovernor appoint emergency managers who are then given unilateral power over financially-troubled municipalities and school districts. Three years agoThe state-appointed EFMs can dismiss duly elected local officials, I first read about break municipal contracts and sell off the gas industrytown's plan to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in a process called frackingpublic utilities. I felt somewhat like an Iraqi must have felt If activists succeed in reaction to "shock and awe." Hydraulic fracking drills up to 8gathering the required number of signatures,000 feet into the bowels of new EFM law could be suspended while the Earth. It requires millions of gallons of water and hundreds of unidentified chemicals (including carcinogens) matter waits to extract tiny bubbles of methane gas that have formed over millions of yearsbe decided at the ballot box in November. Radioactive materialsMichigan Forward reportedly already has 155, brine000 valid signatures, and heavy metals are also brought up needs 161,304 to get the surfacelaw suspended. These materials are extremely toxicBut the Republican-led legislature is working to thwart the effort to suspend the law. As with nuclear materialsThe State Senate passed SB 865, there is no way an interim law which would allow emergency managers to dispose of them[http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/12/mirs_gov_rick_snyder_administr. Yet html stay in some cases, place] even if petition gatherers succeed in getting enough valid signatures to suspend the waste fluid has been marketed as salt and spread on our roadscurrent law. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11179 11217 here].