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We are very proud to announce that Natalie Merchant is lending her voice to fight fracking! With special guests the Horse Flies. Also featured, will be our scientific advisor, Dr.Sandra Steingraber. Proceeds from this show will benefit the Finger Lakes Clean Waters Initiative! Tickets on sale now and selling fast! http://www.facebook.com/events/238975109516642/ For tickets please contact the Forum box office at 607-778-6626.
Shale Promises? or Shale Spin?The Economics Behind Hydrofracking.
A lecture by economist Deborah Rogers
Deborah Rogers, on a speaking tour in central NY, will be at the First Unitarian church of Ithaca (corner of Aurora and Buffalo Streets) at 7 pm on Friday, January 20.Her talk will examine aspects of the push for shale gas extraction that have not been widely discussed publicly in this area.All are welcome.
 Ms Rogers began her financial career in London working in corporate finance and later served as a financial consultant with Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney.She then started an artisanal cheese making operation in Texas and became interested in natural gas when an energy company planned 12 high impact wells next to her dairy property.After exhaustive research, she began speaking out in 2009 about anomalies she had identified in the shale gas industry, including false expectations of the yields and profitability of many shale gas plays and over-hyping of investments therein.Ms Rogers is the founder of the Energy Policy Forum, a prominent web site and blog for discussion on these and related matters.She was featured in a lengthy NY Times article by Ian Urbina on June 26, 2011 entitled Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush.This meeting is sponsored by Shaleshock Action Alliance, the Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition (DRAC), the Social Justice Council of the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca,Enfield Neighbors for Safe Air and Water (ENSAW), and the Tompkins County League of Women Voters.
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. 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. 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 www.shaleshock.org www.shaleshockmedia.org www.shaleshock.blip.tv The SRBC meets Thursday They will be voting on 26 NEW water withdrawal permits WE Need your urgent help. 1: Get this info on every activist list in three states: PA — NY — MD Here are the numbers to call: PA State Governor Phone Tom Corbett 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 Governor / Mr. President: We have just Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to perform a miracle. Greetings, I write to request your urgent, immediate and unrelenting help to persuade Governor Cuomo to withdraw New York’s Marcellus Shale Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement. Toxics Targeting just released extensive new information that refutes the Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) assertion that New York has never experienced a single horizontal drilling or hydrofracturing pollution problem. We also documented DEC’s on-going failure to clean up hundreds of reported natural gas and oil incidents. This information leaves no doubt that DEC is woefully unable to protect New York from natural gas extraction hazards. The Ferrugia’s water contamination problem For example, Dave Ferrugia and his wife live near Jamestown, NY and have not been able to drink their well water since 2007 after a gas well was drilled approximately 300 feet from their home. Their water is so contaminated that a local veterinarian told them not to allow their dogs to drink the water either. Their water well contamination was confirmed by “before” and “after” testing conducted by the gas drilling firm. According to the Chautauqua County Health Department: “This is a well documented case showing drinking water impacts that are seemingly related to gas well development.” Local health authorities appealed to DEC’s Division of Mineral Resources to help the Ferrugias. DEC refused to investigate their problem or to provide them with safe drinking water. See a video of Mr. Ferrugia along with the above-referenced health department and DEC documents at: http://www.toxicstargeting.com/node/7084 Governor Cuomo In reality, DEC routinely fails to enforce existing gas drilling requirements and has no meaningful plan to fulfill Executive Order No. 41′s mandate that Marcellus Shale environmental impacts will be “avoided or mitigated.” In short, the RD SGEIS is a sham that cannot protect public health. Sign the Coalition Letter to Withdraw the RD SGEIS Please sign a new coalition letter requesting that Governor Cuomo immediately withdraw the Revised Draft SGEIS because it suffers from at least 17 critical shortcomings that must be fully resolved before a Final SGEIS is adopted. Until that is achieved, the current Marcellus Shale de facto moratorium must not be lifted. See the letter as well as detailed documentation links at: http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/cuomo/coalition_letter/2011 During the fall of 2009, more than 6,000 citizens, elected officials and environmental groups signed a coalition letter calling for DEC’s original draft SGEIS to be withdrawn. That tsunami of grassroots pressure prevented DEC from adopting a Final SGEIS. That is why not one Marcellus Shale horizontal hydrofractured well has been drilled in New York. It is imperative that we replicate that effort in the weeks to come. I implore you to do all you can to help. Beat the bushes for signatories. The coalition letter is excruciatingly detailed. Read it and you will become a walking encyclopedia of RD SGEIS shortcomings. See: http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/cuomo/coalition_letter/2011 2. Email Governor Cuomo: http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php 3. Call Governor Cuomo: Albany: 518-474-8390 New York City: 212-681-4580 Binghamton: 607-721-8367 Twitter: @NYGovCuomo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo?sk=wall Thank you so much for your help. Onward and upward. Best, Walter Hang Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toxics-Targeting/95035142437 Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/toxicstargeting We are just starting to collect and publish responses to the DEC on the Sept. dSGEIS So if you have one that you would like us to post, kindly send it along Flaws in the draft SGEIS http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=2011_SGEIS_Flaws%28NY%29 These are the Editor’s Picks of some of the most important points. Continue reading Why the draft SGEIS should be revised–A Must Read |
 Shaleshock is an information hub connecting people to regional groups and projects working to stop exploitative drilling in the Marcellus Shale.(more)
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