Front-Page Coverage for Our Dominion New Market Campaign/Take Action to Require the Town of Dryden to Avoid Borger Compressor Station Pollution Problems It Acknowledged to Governor Cuomo

Important Dominion New Market Pipeline Campaign Update. Take Urgent Action Without Delay.

See a NEW LETTER to Dryden Town Supervisor Leifer: Reiterated Request for Immediate Town of Dryden Action in Light of Your 2/3/17 Letter to Governor Cuomo

This is our current strategy: Recording of Walter Hang's Presentation to Dryden Residents Regarding Dominion New Market Pipeline: 3/19/17

Greetings,

Many thanks to all Fractivists who have called and written Dryden Town Supervisor, Jason Leifer, other Town Officials and Governor Cuomo to:

a) kill an inadequate and incomplete Dominion New Market Pipeline Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan and

b) stop the proposed expansion of this giant fracked gas pipeline that has caused contamination hazards that were never cleaned up to state standards and threaten historic Cayuga Lake.

Two Important Developments

I write today to report two important developments. First, our campaign received huge front-page coverage yesterday in the Ithaca Journal. Thanks, Matt Steecker.

See: Regulators: Dominion may begin pipeline expansion

Second, it has come to light that Dryden Supervisor Leifer wrote an important letter to Governor Cuomo on February 3, 2017 to request that New York State take action to block the wetland and waterbody protection variances and a Notice to Proceed requested by Dominion on 1/24/17 for its proposed New Market Pipeline Project.

Supervisor Leifer echoed our wetland and waterbody concerns even though he lacked our detailed documentation of the shortcomings of Dominion's Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan.

See Supervisor Leifer's: Letter from Town of Dryden to Gov. Cuomo, Commissioner Seggos, and Attorney General Schneiderman re: Borger Compressor Station - 2/3/2017

Given that the Supervisor Leifer's request evidently did not receive a favorable reply from the Governor, we must now require the Town of Dryden to take immediate and urgent action to avoid the grave problems detailed in the Supervisor's letter.

That is exactly what I wrote the Supervisor about today: Reiterated Request for Immediate Town of Dryden Action in Light of Your 2/3/17 Letter to Governor Cuomo

This is a detailed discussion of where we stand: Recording of Walter Hang's Presentation to Dryden Residents Regarding Dominion New Market Pipeline: 3/19/17

Take Urgent Action Today

Call Dryden Town Supervisor Leifer at (607) 844-8888 and press 6. Email him at: supervisor@dryden.ny.us

Call and email other Town Board members at: http://dryden.ny.us/board-commission-list/town-board/

VERY RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE TOWN OF DRYDEN TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO:

RESCIND LOCAL APPROVAL for the Dominion New Market Pipeline Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan;

REQUIRE Dominion to apply for a Special Use Permit for the Borger Compressor Station expansion;

DENY the Special Use Permit because expansion of the proposed Borger Compressor Station cannot comply with the Town of Dryden's comprehensive land-use plan; and

Write Governor Cuomo to require him to take administrative action to fulfill Supervisor Leifer's requests specified in his FERC letter.

See: Letter from Town of Dryden to FERC re: Borger Compressor Station - 3/6/2017

Keep Calling Governor Cuomo at 518 474 8390 to DEMAND that he:

REVOKE the factually incorrect Dominion New Market Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan and require it to be REDONE; and

RESCIND the improperly granted "blanket authorization" Section 401 Water Quality Certification for Dominion New Market Pipeline.

Keep Writing Governor Cuomo to request that he rescind approval for Dominion New Market Pipeline and adopt a statewide fossil fuel infrastructure approval moratorium. Use our new personalized form letter.

Write on behalf of groups. Be your eloquent best. Fill in the blanks.

Conclusion

The Town of Dryden has a vaunted reputation for prohibiting shale fracking through a landmark "home rule" court decision that allowed municipalities to limit heavy industrial activity.

Fractivists must work extremely hard in unison to require the Town to live up to that reputation by prohibiting expansion of the Borger Compressor Station because its comprehensive land-use plan notes that the facility is located in the "rugged terrain of the Allegheny Plateau portion of the town and land uses in the area should be limited to farming and recreation or conservation-oriented uses."

This is when our efforts must really count. This is when we will see what we are all made of. Test your faith. Go hard.

More very shortly. Thanks so much for all your help.

Cheers,

Walter

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