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Announcing an open, educational forum on
Natural Gas Drilling:
Health Effects, Economics and the Watershed

THURSDAY, MARCH 26
7:00 – 9:15 pm
Ithaca High School Cafeteria
1401 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca
Light refreshments and seating begin at 6:30

Keynote Speaker:
Albert F. Appleton, former NY City Commissioner of Environmental Protection

Al Appleton is an international consultant on water resource management, the environmental management of watershed and rural landscapes, and the economics of sustainable development. Mr. Appleton also teaches research seminars on sustainability at Cooper Union and Hunter College City University graduate program. As NY City Commissioner of Environmental Protection in the 1990s, he designed and initiated the world renowned Catskill watershed protection program.

Presentations also by Barbara Arrindell and Joe Levine of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability

Sponsored by: Social Ventures, Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga, CRESP Center for Transformative Action, Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell, Shaleshock Citizens Coalition, Ithaca Health Alliance, Back to Democracy.

For more information, call 202-368-8753.
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Download hand-outs from the event:
What’s in that fracking ?uid?
What is different about drilling in the Marcellus?
Protect NY’s Resources from the New Gas Rush
What Local Governments Can Do To Minimize
the Negative Impacts of Gas Drilling
What You Can Do