Announcing the Next Shaleshock Meeting for Thursday April 8th

6:00 pm at Shaleshock Outreach Office
115 E. MLK St. Ithaca, NY 14850

These Meetings are a space for announcements & updates, breakout
sessions, and general socializing for the Shaleshock Action Alliance
Movement. Please contact shaleshockoutreach@gmail.com with questions
or to add agenda items.

Hear from two knowledgeable speakers about how drilling is done, the potential impact on our air and water, gas lease basics, and landowner liability.

Enfield Grange Enfield Main Road Monday, March 22, 2010 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
	Helen Slottje, Attorney at Law Helen is an attorney for Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc., a nonprofit environmental law firm based in Ithaca. She is lead attorney on the lawsuit challenging the Village of Horseheads’ finding that there would be no significant environmental impact from a new 88 acre drilling services facility operating right in the town. Helen also works with landowners who are trying to understand their leases, students at Cornell’s Water and Land Clinic, and other community groups trying to protect themselves from the negative impacts of the new drilling practices and volume of wells slated for towns like ours that lie above the Marcellus shale.
Bill Podulka, Ph.D Co-Director of The Marcellus Accountability Project Bill is a physicist with a lifelong interest in energy and environmental issues. In 2009, after learning about the impending gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, he and his wife created TCgasmap.org, a website with an on-line map of Tompkins County gas leases and well-researched information on many different aspects of the gas drilling issue. Dr. Podulka also holds a Masters degree in Secondary Education from Cornell University.
* *?* Refreshments will be served *?*?* Sponsored by Enfield Neighbors for Safe Air and Water (ENSAW) For more information: Beth McGee, 387-9899 or Nancy Spero 273-6603 There will be plenty of time for questions and conversation.

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March 26th 2010

Our goal in producing this one-day workshop is to help craft brewers and cheesemakers save water and save money. With many water utilities in the Great Lakes region increasing fees by 25% or more in the next year, this workshop will pay for itself through practical systems for water savings.

Attendees will hear from industry leaders in brewery water management, including (speakers) John Berardino and Linda A. Rastani of Alfa Laval USA (silver sponsors of the workshop), Patrick Conway of Great Lakes Brewing Co., Jason Fox of Custom BrewCrafters, Dr. Manaf Farhan of EMG International, Walter Hang of Toxics Targeting, Sammis White of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and more. Presentations and panels cover systems for water conservation, water auditing, wastewater treatment and recycling in brewhouses and brewpubs, economics of water pricing in the Great Lakes, and CIP processes for both brewers and cheesemakers.

The workshop (9-4:30, including breakfast hosted by EcoLab, buffet lunch and tasting) will be held in downtown Rochester, NY, at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Avenue, www.rmsc.org.

The craft beer and cheese tasting  will be held at the Pittsford Wegmans store, 5-7 pm, sponsored by Briggs of Burton, Inc., Rochester, NY.

Why should you participate? Water policy in the Great Lakes region – the source of 20 percent of the world’s supply of freshwater -  is changing rapidly. The Great Lakes Compact requires all water-intensive businesses within the watershed to implement water conservation practices.

A short documentary about the 2009 conference’s beer and cheese tasting is posted on YouTube here.

Here’s an article from the Wisconsin State Journal’s business section with interviews from the October 2009 conference.

Announcing the Next Shaleshock Meeting for Monday March 15th.

6:00 pm at Shaleshock Outreach Office
115 E. MLK St. Ithaca, NY 14850

These Meetings are a space for announcements & updates, breakout
sessions, and general socializing for the Shaleshock Action Alliance
Movement. Please contact shaleshockoutreach@gmail.com with questions
or to add agenda items.

This is a good opportunity to interact with and ask questions of landowners who have or are considering leases. If you go, please be respectful of the varying opinions that will be present. Calm, centered, informed!

Land Owner Coalitions: Emerging Opportunities for Grassroots Organizing Around Natural Gas Leasing
Saturday, March 13, 1:00-3:00 pm
Dryden Fire Hall, North Street, Dryden NY

A free program hosted by the Tompkins County Agriculture & Farmland Protection Board in conjunction with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County. Featuring Nick Schoonover, President of the Tioga County Landowners Group. Come learn:

• What brought Tioga landowners together initially
• How they developed their organization
• What services they offer their membership

For more information call Debbie Teeter at (607) 272-2292