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Landowners discuss drilling concerns at Ithaca High School forum

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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Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale: Informational Meeting in Bath, NY

By shirari, on March 22nd, 2009%

Bath Fire Hall
50 E. Morris Street
Bath, NY (Steuben County)
(Google map)

Film: “Rural Impact!” about environmental and health hazards that have occurred in Colorado

Speakers: Rachel Treichler, attorney & Jean Wosinski, geologist

This informational meeting is sponsored by the LWV of Steuben County (officially the League of Women Voters, but men have belonged for years).

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Open, Educational Form on Natural Gas Drilling, March 26th in Ithaca

By shirari, on March 18th, 2009%

Download, print and distribute the flyer!

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.
Please share this announcement with others.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

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

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How the Dangers of Gas Drilling Affect You – Oneonta

By shirari, on March 13th, 2009%

St. Mary’s Parish Center at the corner of Walnut and Elm Streets

Presenters:

  • Ron Bishop, Chemistry Lecturer at SUNY Oneonta
  • James Herman, Hartwick property owner
  • Colleen Blacklock, Oneonta resident who has been researching gas drilling impacts on agriculture

Forum sponsored by Sustainable Otsego
For more information call 547-8586
Free and open to the public

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"US energy future hits snag in rural Pennsylvania" (Reuters)

By shirari, on March 13th, 2009%

The family, which is poor enough to qualify for government food stamps, began buying bottled water for drinking and cooking. Their illnesses finally ended, and Farnelli found something to blame: natural gas drilling in the township of 1,400 people. Dimock, in a former coal mining region that was economically struggling even before the recession, is one of hundreds of sites in Pennsylvania where energy companies are now racing to tap the massive Marcellus Shale natural gas formation.

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"Cayuga Heights plant accepts drilling wastewater" (Ithaca Journal)

By shirari, on March 12th, 2009%

“While the Ithaca wastewater plant’s owners deliberate whether to accept the liquefied remains of animal carcasses from Cornell University, the Cayuga Heights wastewater treatment plant is already accepting wastewater from gas drilling companies.”
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"Natural Gas as Answer to Oil Decline Could Lead to Catastrophe, Says Leading Expert" (OilVoice)

By shirari, on March 12th, 2009%

“Ploughing resources into the use of natural gas as an alternative energy supply could lead to global shortage within 20 years time, according to a leading energy expert.”
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