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By Clover56, on September 14th, 2012% The Gas Industry has a foothold in New York. Even if Fracking gets stalled for awhile, they are building their infrastructure here, now, and “The Seneca Three” need to know that they are not alone in trying to stop it…
As you may have heard, three people (now known as “The Seneca Three”) were arrested in front of the Inergy compressor station gate last week. After exercising all other options within the democratic process over the past two years to no avail, these brave souls chose to resort to civil disobedience in an effort to make their voices heard and protect their community from massive industrialization and dangerous gas storage/transport.
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20120906/NEWS01/309060043/3-arrested-LPG-protest-Schuyler-County?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Cimg%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1
They are to appear in front of the Reading Town Judge on Wednesday, September 19th at 7:00pm
Reading Town Hall, Justice Court,
Town Of Reading
3914 County Road 28
Watkins Glen, NY14891
http://www.manta.com/cmap/mm53nts/reading-town-hall
Please be there in a show of support. Wear black if you can. We will be handing out the attached photo for you to pin on your shirt, or you can print your own and come prepared!
Yvonne Taylor
Co-Founder, Gas Free Seneca
By Clover56, on September 11th, 2012% Steuben, Chemung, Tioga, Broome & Chenango Counties
Save Or Sacrifice
It’s our choice, not Cuomo’s!!
Now is the time to rise up and SAVE our precious resources…
Our pure water, land and air!
And to secure a Safe Future for ourselves and our children.
Please join us Saturday, September 15th
1) Rally in Binghamton, Broome County at 11am-noon at Otsiningo Park (directions below)
Celebrating New York’s local agriculture at the Farmers Market
Featured Speaker: Sandra Steingraber
2) Rally & March in Painted Post, Steuben County at 2-4pm in Craig Park (directions below)
Speakers & then 1.5 mi march through village commercial district and water withdrawal/railroad route.
Topics:
· Aquifer depletion
· Night time train noise
· Drill cuttings in local landfills
· Our children’s health is our highest priority
· Celebrate our clean water, land, and air
· The Power is with us, the People
Bring friends, kids, elders, signs, & your determination to stop fracking from entering our state!
It’s your choice – Save our water and land Or Sacrifice our children’s future!
Please forward this to anyone who is concerned about fracking.
TO OTSININGO PARK, 1 Otsiningo Park, Binghamton, NY 13901, 607.778.6541
FROM THE WEST: Take Rt. 17 East to Exit 72 (Front Street). Turn left at the traffic signal onto Front Street (Rt. 11 North). Turn right at first traffic signal onto Bevier Street. Otsiningo Park entrance is immediately on the left.
FROM THE EAST: Take Rt. 17 West to I-81 North to Exit 5 (Front Street). Turn left at traffic signal onto Front Street (Rt. 11South). Turn left at first traffic signal onto Bevier Street. Otsiningo Park entrance is immediately on the left.
FROM THE NORTH: Take I-81 South to Exit 5 (Front Street). Turn left at the traffic signal onto Front Street (Rt. 11 South). Turn left at the second traffic signal onto Bevier Street. Otsiningo Park entrance is immediately on the left.
FROM THE NORTHEAST: Take I-88 West to I-81 South to Exit 5 (Front Street). Turn left at the traffic signal onto Front Street (Rt. 11South). Turn left at the second traffic signal onto Bevier Street. Otsiningo Park entrance is immediately on the left.
FROM THE SOUTH: Take I-81 North to Exit 5 (Front Street). Turn left at the traffic signal onto Front Street (Rt. 11 South). Turn left at the first traffic signal onto Bevier Street. Otsiningo Park is immediately on the left.
TO CRAIG PARK, 110 Steuben St., Painted Post, NY 14870
From the East: Take I-86 to exit 43 for Painted Post. Turn right at the light onto Rt-415/Coopers-Bath Rd. Proceed approximately .5 mile to entrance to Craig Park. It’s the first right just after the entrance to Corning-Painted Post West High School. The entrance is at a 135 degree angle with the road you’re on. Proceed to large pavilion. Lots of parking if you loop around the pavilion to the back.
From the West: Take I-86 to exit 43 for Painted Post. Turn left onto Rt-415/Coopers-Bath Rd. Proceed approximately .5 mile to entrance to Craig Park. It’s the first right just after the entrance to Corning-Painted Post West High School. The entrance is at a 135 degree angle with the road you’re on. Proceed to large pavilion. Lots of parking if you loop around the pavilion to the back.
By Clover56, on September 11th, 2012%
“Freedom from Toxic Fracking Waste: National Rally Day.”
On September 12, 2012 a national coalition of local coordinators and groups in communities across America will hold simultaneous rallies throughout the day to shine light on the numerous problems associated with toxic fracking waste and its disposal, including its links to earthquakes, spills, and leaks.
LOCAL RALLY
Wednesday September 12th
6- 7 pm
Auburn City Hall
24 South Street Auburn NY 13021
Come join us Wednesday evening and make some noise about fracking waste. Learn about what is happening even here and now in Cayuga County with the poisons produced by hundreds of existing vertical wells. Imagine the effects of this waste magnified a millionfold with high volume drilling.
The Government Office of Accountability paper on Produced Water makes no distinction between conventional and unconventional waste. The sole distinction is volume.
Learn about our three active injection disposal wells in NYS – one just 8 miles from Auburn, 3/4 mile from the shore of Cayuga Lake and Montezuma Wildlife Refuge. Mary Menapace will share what she has learned from EPA documents on particulars of these wells.
Terry Cuddy will share what is going on with Auburn City Council’s recent ban then rescission of the ban on discharging untreated vertical well frackwaste into the outlet of Owasco Lake that ultimately flows to Lake Ontario. Written info will be available.
By Clover56, on September 6th, 2012%  Right now three activists are chained to the fence outside the Inergy facility near Watkins Glen. Many others are also participating in the blockade and headed to the site to blockade the entrance. Police have given protesters 15 minutes to leave before they will be risking arrest. Jeremy Alderson, one of the blockaders chained to the fence, is the founder of the No Frack Almanac and is a member of Gas Free Seneca. Below is a statement he released:
If you are reading this, I am chained to a fence outside an Inergy facility near Watkins Glen, and I am not alone.
We are protesting the gasification of New York. We don’t want fracking in this state (or any state), and we don’t like Inergy’s plans to build a gas storage hub in Seneca Lake salt caverns. We believe that:
1 – Inergy’s plans are reckless and dangerous. Salt Cavern storage facilities are more accident prone than any other type of gas storage facility.
2 – Even if nothing goes wrong, there will be plenty wrong. The Inergy project will change the character of our rural area by increasing the levels of traffic, noise, and pollution. Just the pollution alone will kill people, and gas development will surely harm our existing winery, agricultural and tourism industries.
3 – Inergy can’t be trusted. Inergy has been caught in so many lies and is keeping so many secrets that it has no credibility whatsoever. It cannot be relied on as a guardian of public safety.
4 – The Inergy project is clearly meant to facilitate the fracking of New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. We adamantly oppose fracking and consider it catastrophic folly. We want the Inergy project stopped because of its own lack of merit, and also as part of the larger effort to stop fracking.
5 – We resent the fact that, even though we live here, we have been given no say in what happens to our area. We know, for example, that the DEC is keeping secrets for Inergy. And we know that the DEC sent proposed fracking regulations to the gas companies for review, before finalizing them and releasing them for public comment. No such opportunity was afforded to the industry’s opponents. We cannot remain silent while a demonstrably biased agency makes decisions behind closed doors that could forever change our way of life.
updates at www.dontfrackwithus.org
Media Contact: Maura Stephens 607-351-3766
By Sam Law, on September 6th, 2012% 
Three arrests at Inergy Compressor Statioin north of Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake: Jeremy Alderson, Gary Judson, Susan Walker. Very nice Schuyler County Sheriff Yesson and officers took them away, charged only with a violation. This time. Warned that next time the penalty would be stiffer for these three. We will not back down in defense of our land and our communities. Who’s next?
By Sam Law, on September 6th, 2012% Right now three activists are chained to the fence outside the Inergy facility near Watkins Glen. Many others are also participating in the blockade and headed to the site to blockade the entrance. Police have given protesters 15 minutes to leave before they will be risking arrest. Jeremy Alderson, one of the blockaders chained to the fence, is the founder of the No Frack Almanac and is a member of Gas Free Seneca. Below is a statement he released:
If you are reading this, I am chained to a fence outside an Inergy facility near Watkins Glen, and I am not alone.
We are protesting the gasification of New York. We don’t want fracking in this state (or any state), and we don’t like Inergy’s plans to build a gas storage hub in Seneca Lake salt caverns. We believe that:
1 – Inergy’s plans are reckless and dangerous. Salt Cavern storage facilities are more accident prone than any other type of gas storage facility.
2 – Even if nothing goes wrong, there will be plenty wrong. The Inergy project will change the character of our rural area by increasing the levels of traffic, noise, and pollution. Just the pollution alone will kill people, and gas development will surely harm our existing winery, agricultural and tourism industries.
3 – Inergy can’t be trusted. Inergy has been caught in so many lies and is keeping so many secrets that it has no credibility whatsoever. It cannot be relied on as a guardian of public safety.
4 – The Inergy project is clearly meant to facilitate the fracking of New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. We adamantly oppose fracking and consider it catastrophic folly. We want the Inergy project stopped because of its own lack of merit, and also as part of the larger effort to stop fracking.
5 – We resent the fact that, even though we live here, we have been given no say in what happens to our area. We know, for example, that the DEC is keeping secrets for Inergy. And we know that the DEC sent proposed fracking regulations to the gas companies for review, before finalizing them and releasing them for public comment. No such opportunity was afforded to the industry’s opponents. We cannot remain silent while a demonstrably biased agency makes decisions behind closed doors that could forever change our way of life.
Media Contact: Maura Stephens 607-351-3766
By Clover56, on September 4th, 2012%  A music festival to celebrate community and support the fight against fracking! FREE ADMISSION – Cosponsored by the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation.
With The Fabulous Ripcords, Joe Driscoll, Colleen Kattau and Some Guys, Cornbred, Thousands of One, and The Gunrunners.
@ the Onondaga Nation Ballfield
Find out what’s happening in the fight against fracking!
Speakers include:
Award-winning ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber;
Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation and respected international speaker on Climate Change issues;
Nadia Steinzor of the Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project;
Wes Gillingham of Catskill Mountainkeepers and NYers Against Fracking;
Joseph Heath, General Counsel to the Onondaga Nation and expert in lease termination and town bans;
Carol French and Carolyn Knapp, affected landowners from Bradford Co., PA;
Michael Gorr of Shaleshock CNY;
Katherine Nadeau of Environmental Advocates of NY;
Sarah Eckel of Citizens Campaign for the Environment;
and more!The festival atmosphere will be completed by good food, info tables, and Native arts and crafts for sale. Please join us!
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