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By Clover56, on December 31st, 2011%
“The Future of Ithaca’s Drinking Water: The State of Sixmile Creek”
Date: January 11th, 2012
Location: Borg Warner Room, Tompkins County Library, Green St., Ithaca NY
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Learn about the new drinking water plant, the success of stream restoration projects and what volunteer monitors are discovering about the health of Sixmile Creek. Find out how you can be a part of it all.
Volunteer Creek Monitors and scientists from the Community Science Institute’s certified lab will present their findings on the state of Sixmile Creek at the Tompkins County Library on January 11, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. They’ll be covering such questions as: “Does the stream support fish?” “Why is Sixmile Creek so muddy?” and “How much does Sixmile Creek contribute to the phosphorus problem in Cayuga Lake?”
Tompkins County Soil & Water Conservation District will share successes of recent restoration efforts affecting both agricultural and developed areas of the watershed. Sixmile Creek also serves as the drinking water source
for the City of Ithaca. The treatment facility will be rebuilt in the next few years, with work in the watershed updating the reservoir and collection system. Representatives from the City will be on hand to provide updates.
The Sixmile Creek Volunteer Monitors have been partnering with the Community Science Institute’s certified lab since September, 2004, to sample the stream at 14 locations several times a year from the headwaters in State
Forests to Plain St. in downtown Ithaca. Results of analyses for bacteria, nutrients and sediment, are reported on the CSI website at www.communityscience.org.
The CSI-volunteer monitoring partnership provides citizens a way to actively engage in science and contribute to the management of our local resources, a project supported by several municipalities and Tompkins County as well as the Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District. For further information about volunteering to monitor the water quality of Sixmile Creek, contact Dan Karig at dek9@cornell.edu or call 607-277-3380.
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NOTE: Under CSI leadership, volunteer groups monitor several other creeks in the Cayuga Lake Watershed, and in the uppermost Susquehanna Basin headwaters creeks. Find these creeks and data at www.communityscience.org
By Clover56, on December 31st, 2011%
SOS from the Southern Tier
Hop on the Bus to Fight Hydrofracking
Rally against hydrofracking before Governor Cuomo’s
“State of the State” address
RIDE THE BUS TO THE STATE CAPITOL IN ALBANY
Join Hundreds of Citizens Requesting That Governor Cuomo Immediately Withdraw the Revised Draft SGEIS Due to at Least 17 Major Flaws.
THIS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 4th
NYRAD is organizing a bus trip from Ithaca and Binghamton to Albany for the rally
THIS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT RALLY TO DATE
CONTACT ELAINE PERKUS 607-725-7785 $10 PER PERSON
DEPARTING FROM ITHACA WEGMANS, 500 S. Meadow Street, Ithaca PARKING LOT 6:00 AM
PICK UP IN BINGHAMTON 7:15 AM AT CRACKER BARREL PARKING LOT 876 Upper Front Street, Binghamton
PLEASE PARK AWAY FROM THE STORES IN THESE LOTS
BRING: BREAKFAST AND LUNCH
LEAVE ALBANY AROUND 4 PM THIS IS IT – NOW IS OUR TIME!
By Clover56, on December 31st, 2011%
Dear Friend,
Grassroots energy is high as this year comes to an end. Encouraged by insistent power-of-the-people messages, thousands of people have rallied all over New York at educational forums, DEC hearings, and local election debates with calls to stop unsafe shale gas drilling from coming to our state.
 As part of a state-wide movement, we’ve helped to hold off massive natural gas industrial development in our Marcellus shale for another year, and the DEC will soon start opening tens of thousands of letters on how to improve the sGEIS. The level of public engagement in gas drilling rules and regulations is unprecedented for any environmental issue in NY history. Because our region’s rural, suburban and urban citizens emerged as leaders in many new groups in the grassroots movement, we have a strong local and state-wide coalition that works together to make our messages loud and clear. Shaleshock is proud to be known as one of the first groups to form three years ago, spreading seeds of resistance that grew in towns and villages near and far. (Our No-Frack lawn signs are visible in pictures as far away as Europe.)
During 2011, Shaleshock accomplishments include:
• Reaching many thousands through our popular website, e-mail listserve, Shaleshock 101 classes, information display tables, and free videos and pamphlets.
• Producing and posting over 200 documentary videos by ShaleshockMedia in the past year, with 42,500 views, vastly expanding our educational outreach.
• Teaching over 600 people more about gas drilling at four Ithaca forums on topics of “Drilling and DEC: New Guidelines”; “Storing Liquid Gas in Watkins Glen”; “From Marcellus to South Africa”; and “Economic Impacts of the sGEIS”. Shaleshock also co-sponsored another dozen events held in the region.
• Providing resources through our high quality communications network and background of deep research for five nearby towns to pass gas drilling ban ordinances over the summer and fall of 2011.
• Giving hundreds of people the opportunity to speak directly about their concerns in meetings with our NY State elected officials.
Your generous donations make all this possible. As volunteers, we gladly donate our time, but we need your help with funds to rent our little office above Autumn Leaves, pay for video production supplies and expenses, print brochures and handouts, put on educational events. Please, contribute what you can to this exciting movement. No donation is too small. (While we are a non-profit community organization, Shaleshock is not a federally tax-deductible organization.)
The fight to protect our water, air and communities continues. If we work together, we can stop the dirty, polluting extraction methods of fossil fuels and move toward the future of clean, renewable energy on which our lives depend.
Best wishes for a joyful holiday season,
From Sara, Ryan, Lisa, Laurie, Hilary A, David, Fred, Margaret, Marie, Hilary L., Elmer, Eric, Steve, And many more!
P.S. Please use the tools below to share this donation page with your friends, and help us spread the word about our efforts! Thanks!
https://www.wepay.com/donate/shaleshock
“Through Shaleshock, I’ve found a really fun way to be a fracktavist: working on the Ithaca Festival Parade. With some zany ideas, a bunch of cardboard, pipes, paper mache, paint and tape, we concocted what many parade goers said was the best entry 2 years in a row! Besides being a lot of fun for us, I feel that keeping our community base energized is essential. With arts + activism we can reach people through their hearts, not just their minds.” – Steve
“My experience faciliating meetings and helping with outreach/education has been really exciting. I’ve learned a lot from the Shaleshock 101 groups and the various trainings we’ve helped to organize.” – Ryan
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Shaleshock Action Alliance
115 E. Martin Luther King St, Ithaca, NY 14850
www.shaleshock.org www.shaleshockmedia.org www.shaleshock.blip.tv
By Clover56, on December 31st, 2011%
Albany Rally & Lobby Day Jan 23rd.
Join Shaleshock and other groups for a rally & lobby day in Albany January 23rd. Let’s show Gov. Cuomo just how much we want to protect our water, air and children and how we feel about fracking. Rally begins at 11am. Keep reading for bus info & more…
http://www.citizenscampaign.org/special_features/hydro-fracking-center.asp
To lobby, please register at the link above.
Shaleshock has reserved a bus from Ithaca. It will leave at 6:30 am behind the Ramada Inn on Triphammer Road. There will be another pick-up in Whitney Point for anyone who wants to meet us there. Arrival in Albany should be about 10:15. The bus will depart from Albany at 4:30pm, arrival in Ithaca by 8:15pm.
Tickets are $30/seat, or whatever you can afford. And for anyone who would like to make a donation to help cover the cost ($1500), we’d sincerely appreciate your help.
Make your reservation by sending an e-mail note and a check made out to “Shaleshock” to Sara Hess, 124 Westfield Drive, Ithaca, 14850 before January 19. Please include your e-mail address and phone number.
For reserving a seat or for questions, please contact Sara at sarahess63@yahoo.com or Irene Weiser at irene32340@gmail.com.
- Sara Hess and Irene Weiser
Fracking Day of Action endorsing organizations include Adirondack Mountain Club, Advocates for Cherry Valley, Back to Democracy, Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition, Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes, Concerned Citizens of Tioga County, Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, Delaware Action Group, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition, EARTHWORKS Oil & Gas Accountability Project, Environmental Advocates of New York, Environment New York, Food & Water Watch, Frack Action, Friends of Vestal, Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County, Gray Panthers, NYC Network, Highland Concerned Citizens, Keep Cochecton Green, Keuka Citizens Against Hydrofracking, Landowners Against Natural-gas Drilling, Lumberland Concerned Citizens, NOFA-NY, New Paltz Climate Action Coalition, NYH20, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, New York Residents Against Drilling, New Yorkers for Sustainable Energy Solutions, Otisco Lake Preservation Association, Otsego County Conservation Association, People for a Healthy Environment, Riverkeeper, Schoharie Valley Watch, Shaleshock Action Alliance, ShaleshockCNY, Sierra Club – Atlantic Chapter, Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development (SACRED), Sustainable Otsego, Sustainable Tioga, Three Parks Independent Democrats, Tusten Concerned Citizens, and United for Action.
By Clover56, on December 18th, 2011%
Binghamton city council is set to vote on a proposed two-year fracking moratorium on December 21, 2011, 6:30 pm, at City Hall, 38 Hawley St, Binghamton. As many anti-fracking advocates should be there, ESPECIALLY if they live in Binghamton! Please attend if at all possible.
Protests and/or rallies are not necessary, as barring something crazy, this bill should pass. If folks are well versed in the subject (again, especially Binghamton residents) and would like to make a public comment, that would be excellent.
Anyone can attend this, though technically only Binghamton residents are allowed to speak. The council will generally hear comments from people who have interest in the city, ie working here, owning a business, have family here, visit frequently, etc.
Here is a list of topics that I would like people to comment about. Please contact me if you are interested in volunteering to speak about one:
- Impact of property values in Binghamton (inflated rents)
- Health effects
- Aquifer underneath the First Ward
- Wastewater treatment- Our current plant is in bad shape
By Clover56, on December 13th, 2011%
The SRBC meets Thursday
– in just 4 days.
They will be voting on 26 NEW water withdrawal permits
for Hydrofracking totalling millions of gallons per day.
WE Need your urgent help.
This River Needs your help.
1: Get this info on every activist list in three states: PA — NY — MD
2: Call the governors of 3 states plus the White House EVERY DAY until Thursday.
3: Get to the meeting on Thursday in Wilkes Barre, PA 8:30 AM.
Here are the numbers to call:
PA State Governor Phone Tom Corbett
717-787-2500
NY Andrew Cuomo 518-474-8390
MD Martin O’Malley *410-974-3901 *
US Barak Obama 202-456-1111
SAY / DEMAND:
“We the People Residents of these several states who live within the Susquehanna River Basin rely upon this water for life.
There have been NO cumulative impact studies done to determining the possible GRAVE DAMAGE
to this sensitive ecosystem caused by the permanent removal of this water from the basin and the hydrological cycle.
Governor / Mr. President:
WE the PEOPLE expect your commissioner to VOTE NO on ALL NEW WATER WITHDRAWALS
for HYDROFRACKING in the SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN until a cumulative impact study is made.”
We have just Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to perform a miracle.
By Clover56, on December 8th, 2011%
Cayuga Anti-Fracking Alliance is hosting …
Drop the SGEIS
Wednesday, December 14, 7pm
Auburn Public Theater
8 Exchange St.
Auburn, NY 13021
Come one come all. Bring a pen, bring a laptop, bring a phone, but above all bring your voice.
Auburn Public Theater has public WiFi. Activities ctivities may include:
- A letter writing workshop with key points re: the flaws with the 2011 rd SGEIS
- Links to biggest petition drives in the movement (including Walter Hang’s letter with over 10,400+ signatories to Gov. Cuomo requesting immediate withdrawal of the SGEIS: http://www.toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/cuomo/coalition_letter/2011)
- Form letters to sign and share with your friends that critique the DECs proposal to dispose of “frackwater”
into an ill-equipped treatment plant that in Niagara Falls that goes directly into Lake Ontario
- Phone banking Governor Cuomo – Albany: 518-474-8390; New York City: 212-681-4580; Binghamton: 607-721-8367
- E-mailing Governor Cuomo – http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php
The Governor reportedly could be working with State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous. Senator Libous strongly supports Marcellus Shale drilling in the Southern Tier.
- E-mailing Senator Libous – Senator@senatorlibous.com
- Links to NYS/DEC websites for comments http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html
- “NO FRACK” signs WILL be available for FREE (limited number so please come early)
Please spread the word. Come get involved (again). We need your voice!
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