Race to build: Energy, home construction on collision course

Town of Erie Trustee Christiaan van Woudenberg ran for office because he got tired of trying to fight oil and gas development in his town from the outside.

Elected in early April, van Woudenberg said that Erie is on the front lines of the conflict taking place between residential developments, municipalities and the oil and gas developers who own the mineral rights beneath them. In Erie, at least, the town has attempted…