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SAVE THE DATE! May 17, 5-7 PM
Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, Ithaca
co-sponsored by Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County; Fleased; and Tompkins County Council of Governments Details to follow.
Announcing “A Peoples Hearing on Fracking” June 2nd, 2012 at The Burchfield-Penney Art Center.
Our Hearing website will go live this week with schedules and signup info. This is our preliminary notice. Please pass this on to friends, associates, members and organizations.
For more information visit our website:
 Thank you for support.Please come testify, learn, collaborate, and engage in political activism! at the Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St., Newfield NY This event will offer a look at how gas leases affect residents and towns legally and financially. There will be three presentations:
“Problems with Gas Lease Termination” – Joseph J. Heath, Esq. “Gas Leases and Residential Mortgages” – Greg May of Tompkins Trust Company “Impacts of Gas Leases on Homeownership and Mortgages” – Elisabeth N. Radow, Esq.
After the presentations, there will be ample time for questions and conversations with the speakers.
For more info, contact newfield.pause@gmail.com May 8th at 8 AM to noon at NYS Grange in Cortland – 100 Grange Place – just off Clinton Ave and I-81 All towns and counties in the Southern Tier should send representaties to this Even if your town has passed a ban on fracking, it can still become a greasy spot on the frack truck highway If your town has passed an ordinance – come see how it stacks up when reviewed by the experts Protect your town roads. Protect your county roads. Adopt road use ordinances. If your Town Super does not have a Road Use Agreement in place by Labor Day, get a new Town Super Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Location: New York State Grange 100 Grange Place, Cortland, NY 13045 Does the prospect of more truck traffic than your municipal roads are accustomed have you worried? How can you protect the highway infrastructure and the taxpayers? Event expenses of $250 to be shared by participants – if 50 register then $5 each 7:15 am Doors Open 7:45 am Welcoming Remarks 8:00 am Road Structure and Allocating Damage Costs Equitably Lynne Irwin, Director. Cornell Local Roads Program 9:15 am Options for Managing Truck Traffic Michael Kenneally, Esq. Associate Counsel. Association of Towns of the State of New York 10:00 am Break 10:15 am Strategies for Negotiating Road Use Agreements Mark Sweeny, Esq. Whiteman Osterman and Hanna, LLP 11:15 am Moderated Panel “Questions and Discussion” 12:00 pm End of Program For Registration Contact: Michelle Pottorff at MPottorff@tompkins-co.org Come prepared with any specific questions or concerns you would like our panelists to address! Questions may be emailed in advance to MPottorff@tompkins-co.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Will Hydrofracking Affect Local Streams? No one can say with certainty how or if hydrofracking will impact our streams, lakes and rivers. The Community Science Institute (CSI), based in Ithaca NY, will be recruiting and training several groups of volunteers in the Upper Susquehanna River Watershed to find out. The Community Science Institute is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower citizens to monitor and protect their community’s natural resources, especially water. In addition to partnering with volunteer groups, CSI also operates a state certified water quality testing lab (NYSDOH-ELAP #11790). CSI’s currently partners with eight volunteer groups in the Cayuga Lake watershed and Upper Susquehanna River Basin, covering over 800 square miles of drainage area. Water monitoring by volunteer groups in partnership with the certified laboratory is a low-cost and effective strategy for tracking water quality. With support from the CSI lab, volunteers will perform regular “red flag” field tests on stream samples to assess whether or not contamination occurs from shale gas operations. If a “red flag” is found, the CSI lab will perform further testing. CSI will be holding the following Information Sessions about “Red Flag” Monitoring: Monday, April 2nd 6:00 PM at the Vestal Public Library Meeting Room at 320 Vestal Parkway East in Vestal. Come and find out how CSI’s stream monitoring program works and how to get involved! These events are hosted by the Broome, Tioga, Chenango and Schuyler County Cooperative Extension Offices. CSI is not affiliated with Cornell Cooperative Extension. If you would like to get involved but cannot come to the Info Session, please email Becky Bowen, CSI’s Outreach Coordinator, at becky@communityscience.org or call 607-257-6606. Here’s the text from the FAQ about Red Flag stream monitoring (might go best under water resources section?): Who is the Community Science Institute? The Community Science Institute (CSI) is a nonprofit organization based in Ithaca, NY whose mission is to empower citizens to monitor and protect their community’s natural resources, with a focus on water. CSI is a unique nonprofit in that we operate a state certified water quality testing lab. In partnership with volunteer groups, our lab produces more than 5,000 certified data items each year and publishes results in our open online database at http://communityscience.org/ What is “red flag” monitoring? In response to the need for more scientific data on the effects of high volume slick water horizontal hydraulic fracturing, CSI will be recruiting and training several groups of volunteers in New York’s Southern Tier. These “red flag” monitoring groups will monitor for five parameters: Temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, and total hardness. These parameters are considered “red flags” because they can detect low-level contamination without performing costly tests. If a “red flag” is found, further comprehensive testing will take place in order to determine whether or not contamination occurs from nearby shale gas operations. How can I get involved? What kind of commitment do I need to make? Volunteers will collect samples and perform field tests at chosen stream locations between 6-12 times per year. Random samples will be sent to the CSI lab for certified testing to verify accuracy. CSI will provide data quality support to ensure that volunteer data is comparable to data generated by remote sondes (robot monitors) and certified labs. Training will consist of three half-day workshops in spring and early summer 2012 with monitoring continuing for at least four months after training. After training, volunteers should expect to commit 3-4 hours per month. What does it cost? CSI receives financial support from local governments and foundations, which allows us to train volunteers at no cost to the group. The only costs involved are purchasing of field kits and meters ($200) for each team of 2-6 volunteers. CSI supports volunteers in efforts to raise local funds to cover these costs and to ensure the longevity of the volunteer groups. Let me know if you’d like more information. Thanks for helping us spread the word! Campaign launch on the Colbert Report – Wednesday March 28 http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/24/colbert-show-wednesday-march-28th-frack-attack/ Upstate native and celebrity fractavist Mark Ruffalo will announce the kick-off of a national anti-fracking ad campaign on the Colbert Report, Wednesday March 28th. The ad campaign is sponsored by Water Defense a group formed to specifically address the hazards of fracking at a national and local level. In addition to Mark Ruffalo, the ads will feature Dr. Anthony Ingraffea of Cornell, and Cooperstown residents Dr. Ron Bishop, of SUNY Oneonta, and Chip Northrup, a retired private investor. Water Defense will feature a full roster of experts and speakers to address all aspects of the hazards of shale gas industrialization. The Colbert Show will air 11:30 PM EST. For more details contact Claire Sandberg at claire@waterdefense.org By Peter Hudiburg. I put this powerpoint together for a Commerce Chenango Future Leaders event on gas drilling where I knew that the other 3 speakers would be mostly progas. So I decided to concentrate on specific people who have been damaged by the process and have documented the damage with water tests and in many cases, blood tests, and mention some of the studies that seemed the most persuasive.
The audience response was gratifying. These Chenango people who tend to have a Republican perspective asked some very good questions that showed that they got it. The County gas consultant/lobbyist, Steve Palmatier, couldn’t come up with any rebuttals. He made a bogus comment that he knew Jacobi, the creator of the NYS map crisscrossed with faults and fissures, personally and that he had never said to him that NYS was seismically active.
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