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By shirari, on March 28th, 2009%
 Reverend Billy and fellow activists protesting against plans to drill for natural gas in the Upstate watershed. Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel “Aqua-lujah!” Green candidate Billy damns drilling (The Villager):
Performance-artist preacher Reverend Billy “baptized” 3-month-old Noah Salinger, held by his mother, Tracy Gary, on the Christopher St. Pier on Sunday, World Water Day. The baptism was part of the ceremony of the Blessing of the Water, as well as a protest against plans to drill for natural gas in the Upstate watershed. Billy, real name Bill Talen, is the Green Party candidate for New York City mayor. “If you poison the ground water, you’ve lost the ability to drink,” said Christabel Gough, a longtime Christopher St. resident. Gough sat on the pier’s grass with dozens of others, many holding signs, each bearing the name of a New York neighborhood whose water would be affected by the drilling. “We have the purest water here in the city,” Ellen Peterson Lewis said, holding a “West Village” sign with her husband, Lewis. “We owe it to future generations to keep the water pure,” she said. “Water is not a profit center,” Reverend Billy proclaimed as the crowd chanted, “Aqua-lujah!” Billy said that, if elected, he would advocate for the city’s takeover of the watershed by eminent domain.
By shirari, on March 28th, 2009%
Lisa Ann Wright of Ithaca wrote to the Ithaca Journal,
While I am very pleased The Ithaca Journal headlined with reporter Krisy Gashler’s story last week “Cayuga Heights plant accepts drilling wastewater” on March 12, I have sadly come to expect the sort of collective shrug of Ithacans as to the full meaning of what is happening all around us. Gashler reported that “Erik Whitney, assistant superintendent of public works for water and sewer in the City of Ithaca, said the Ithaca wastewater treatment plant does not accept any gas drilling water, from vertical, horizontal or hydraulic fracture drilling.” So why is Cayuga Heights accepting it? What’s happening to the brine? Is that being spread on our roads as it is in other states? What did Cayuga Heights test the fluids for? Which specific tests did they run? Which certified test methods were used? What were the concentrations in the waste fluids? Would Cayuga Heights be willing to allow an independent lab to test this stuff for the kinds of things that are known to be present in most gas well waste fluids? In Van Etten, Fortuna Energy wants to dispose of produced water from drilling into old gas wells – and now this.
What is it going to take for the people of this community to see how these things are connected, like our water is?
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By shirari, on March 28th, 2009%
 Wilson: “The drillers have run amok.” Photo BY JEFF PRINCE
In the current issue of the Fort Worth Weekly, Jeff Prince reports on a few Texas women who are going beyond the call of duty to protect their homes, families and generations to come from gas drillers who are running amok on all we hold dear.
Their are many, many more unheralded women around the state and country who have been inspired to do the same.
All of them deserve our support. Read Jeff’s report.
By shirari, on March 28th, 2009%
People In Ithaca Worried About The Health Effects of Natural Gas Drilling (WENY-TV News):
Former New York City Commissioner of Enviromental Protection, Al Appleton says natural gas companies are haph-hazardly drilling in the Marcellus Shale. He says the low-budget treatment N.Y. is getting is very bad. He says gas companies aren’t adopting 21st century sustainability practices. The get-in, get-out approach is dangerous for local waterways, land, and the people who live on it… Appleton says he wants to see gas companies be held accountable. This means complying with local zoning, developing non-polluting fracking materials, and treating land-owners with respect.
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By shirari, on March 28th, 2009%
Landowners discuss drilling concerns (News 10 Now):
“A lot of people have signed because they were really misinformed about the noise and how deep the drilling is and what they’re going to do with all the water. So I’m really concerned about it,” said Marina Gershon.
“The problem of the 21st century is to make the environmental and the economy work together, not the way we are currently debating this, which is how much environmental damage can we accept for the sake of natural gas drilling,” said Al Appleton, an environmental consultant.
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