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Drilling Protest On Campus
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Dickinson, NY (WBNG Binghamton) People against hydrofracking head to a school campus to get their voices heard.
On Friday morning, New York Residents Against Gas Drilling (NYRAD) were loud about their message on the Broome BOCES campus.
They say they wanted Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and State Senator Tom Libous to hear them as the leaders drove on their way to a breakfast at BOCES.
Anti-Fracking Protest on BOCES
Anti-fracking advocates were hoping that getting up early would help them catch the attention of two elected officials.
Concerned citizens about hydrofracking gathered Friday morning outside Glenwood BOCES to request that Assembly Woman Donna Lupardo and Senator Tom Libous sign a pledge for the DEC not to lift its current defacto moratorium on hydrofracking until all 17 of their concerns have been met.
Unbelievably Great Response to the Hydrofracturing Panel Pledge Drive
Greetings,
I am very pleased to report that more than 500 de facto moratorium pledge emails were sent in less than one day to members of the DEC Hydrofracturing Advisory Panel. Thank you so much for your help. Pour it on.
"The pen is mightier than the sword." Check out some of the informed and eloquent missives: http://www.toxicstargeting.com/node/30684
Messages to Hydrofracturing Advisory Panel Members
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:01:50 -0800 (PST)
Dear Mr. Kennedy,
We are writing you because we have been staunch supporters of the Natural Resource Defense Council for many years. We are deeply concerned about the recent developments regarding hydrofracturing and your role as an Advisory Panelist in suggesting that a demonstration project is an acceptable way forward for natural gas development in the state of New York. We view hydrofracturing as a grave threat to the health and safety of our family, community and our ecosystem! It is actually a much larger issue because hydrofracturing entails the loss of millions of gallons of fresh water at a time when water access is becoming a global crisis. This is but one of our concerns.
We do not want a demonstration project in the Southern Tier where we live or in any other part of the state. We urge you to live up to the name of the Natural Reources Defense Council- defend us by saying no to this demonstration project, and sign the coalition letter to request the withdrawal of the Revised Draft SGEIS. New York's Marcellus Shale Revised Draft SGEIS just received thousands of blistering comments from elected officials, business leaders, environmental and civic groups and citizens. Region 2 of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency submitted 26 pages of detailed comments that identified dozens of major inadequacies.
Senate Hearing: January 12, 2011, Canandaigua, NY
Senate Standing Committee on Energy Conservation Public Hearing to examine waste water produced by hydraulic fracturing, sponsored by New York State Senators Mark Grisanti and Patrick Gallivan. January 12, 2011, Canandaigua, NY.
Citizen Alert/Urgent Action Requested
Greetings,
I write to request your immediate assistance in holding members of the High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Panel accountable for safeguarding New York from horizontal hydrofracturing hazards. That panel includes elected officials, environmentalists as well as gas industry and business representatives.
See Advisory Panel Members and Contact Info: http://www.toxicstargeting.com/node/30652
Hydrofracking in 2012?
President of Toxics Targeting Walter Hang believes Hydrofracking won't make its way to New York in 2012.
Experts: Gas drilling won't start in N.Y. in 2012
JOHNSON CITY -- Area experts on natural gas drilling agree: New York's swath of the Marcellus Shale isn't likely to be tapped in 2012.
Panelists on both sides of the issue discussed the future of natural gas drilling in the Southern Tier at a roundtable discussion hosted by Press & Sun-Bulletin on Thursday at the Gannett Central N.Y. Production Facility.
2012 is looking mighty good so far/Please help with the de facto moratorium pledge
Greetings,
I am exceedingly pleased to let you know that there is a growing sense that New York's de facto moratorium on horizontal hydrofracturing in Marcellus Shale will likely continue throughout 2012. That is thrilling news, though I hesitate to mention it to avoid jinxing our shut-out. Keep pushing. No let-up.
Here are some hot-off-the-press newsclips as well as a terrifically informative video of a presentation last Thursday involving two key pro-fracking advocates and others. Thank you Press & Sun-Bulletin. Listen very carefully at 20:45.
Strictly Business: Is this the year for fracking in N.Y.?
I'm beginning to wonder if high-volume hydraulic fracturing, the method of extracting natural gas from tight shale formations underground, will ever be allowed in New York.
I don't say that because opponents have successfully lobbied against it. I say that after looking at the enormity of the task now facing New York's Department of Environmental Conservation.
Wow/Powerful EPA Comments/Keep slugging
Greetings,
I write to thank everyone who has worked so hard these last two and a half grueling years to maintain New York's de facto moratorium on Marcellus Shale horizontal hydrofracturing. Your diligence and sacrifice are greatly appreciated. What you have collectively achieved is almost beyond belief. I am sure the gas industry is chagrined to feels likewise.
Even against that background of impressive political achievement, the last ten days have been noteworthy in the annals of NYS grassroots action. Wow.
EPA questions fracking study
ALBANY — Opponents of natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, said Thursday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fired a shot across the bow of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
EPA Weighs in on New York Fracking Plan - VIDEO
"For some of the regulatory programs like if you were dumping gas drilling wastewater into a local municipal treatment plant, EPA is the principal authority," said Walter Hang, President of Toxics Targeting.
And Hang says the EPA has submitted almost twice as many comments as it did for the first SGEIS draft in 2009.
"The main concerns were failure to come up with a way to deal with this incredibly toxic wastewater, failure to protect drinking water, failure to protect radiologic hazards for both the worker and environment."
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