Archives

Last call: Get your voice heard in the first Shaleshock Newsletter

This is the last call for articles to be published in the first Shaleshock Newsletter. We’re excited to be putting out a newsletter and giving Shaleshock a voice in print form!

Please send your pieces in or contact Ryan at clover56@riseup.net and tell him when you’ll have it to us. You can also bring your articles to today’s Shaleshock meeting.

Lecture: Francis J. DiSalvo: World Challenges: Making Our Way to Sustainable Solutions

Lecture: Francis J. DiSalvo
“World Challenges: Making Our Way to Sustainable Solutions”
Statler Auditorium, Cornell University

Cornell Professor Frank DiSalvo, who directs the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, will outline some of the challenges the world faces in the areas of energy, environment, and economic and human development, and the role of academic institutions in addressing these issues.

Visit Cornell’s site for more info.

University of Mass. Study: Green Projects Create More Jobs

A recent University of Massachusetts study concluded that spending $100 billion nationwide on clean, green economic recovery projects (wind, solar, biofuels, etc.) would “create nearly four times more total jobs than spending the same amount of money within the oil industry, and 300,000 more jobs than a similar amount of spending directed toward household consumption.”
Check out the study!

Ithaca Journal Covers Ithaca Town Board Meeting/Shaleshock Presentation

Ithaca Journal Covers Ithaca Town Board Meeting/Shaleshock Presentation by Krisy Gashler:

Hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale will require much more water and chemicals than used in the conventional natural gas drilling that has occurred in New York for decades, members of Shaleshock told the Town Board.

That will mean more trucks carrying water to wastewater treatment plants, which aren’t equipped to handle the waste, and the trucks will increase noise and dust, while damaging small country roads, they said.

The gas industry highlights the potential for $22 billion in gas revenues, but they don’t account for the potential loss in revenue from things like hunting and fishing, farming, and tourism, Shaleshock member Lisa Ann Wright said.

Read the rest…

IOGA/NYSERDA wrap-up

Here is the information shared at the IOGA/NYSERDA event: