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By arimoore, on December 23rd, 2009% Congressman Hinchey and Congressman Arcuri need to be STRONGLY URGED to take a leadership role in helping to protect the safety and welfare of their constituents.
They should follow the lead of Congressman Eric Massa, New York City Council Member James Gennaro and State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton and sign the letter to withdraw the dSGEIS. Our elected representatives need to speak for the people– the majority of us New York State voters have ABSOLUTELY NO VOICE as to the industrialization of NYS to unconventional gas drilling.
Continue reading TAKE ACTION NOW: Email and call Congressman Hinchey and Congressman Arcuri to ask that they protect our safety
By arimoore, on November 16th, 2009% Come one, Come all: Toxics Targeting will propose a campaign to Stop Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling Hazards at The Women’s Community Building, 100 West Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY.
Known oil and gas drilling hazards in New York will be presented. A coalition letter campaign will be outlined to require Governor Paterson to withdraw the Department of Environmental Conservation’s fatally-flawed draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Gas and Oil Mining.
For more information, call 607 273 3388 or 800 286 9427.
By arimoore, on November 16th, 2009% Toxics Targeting, an environmental database firm in Ithaca, New York, has found 270 cases documenting fires, explosions, wastewater spills, well contamination and ecological damage related to gas drilling. Walter Hang, the company’s president, has said, “I believe these findings destroy the myth that the Department of Environmental Conservation’s current oil and gas regulations are adequate to safeguard the environment and public health. For that reason, I am asking Governor Paterson to withdraw the dSGEIS.”
Hang’s Coalition Letter Requesting Governor Paterson to withdraw the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) for Oil and Gas Mining is now available for all those who would like to sign on:
We, the undersigned, strongly support safeguarding the environment, public health and natural resources of the Catskills, Finger Lakes and Southern Tier regions that overlay the Marcellus Shale formation, potentially the largest natural gas reservoir in America. That is why we write to request you to withdraw the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement released on 9/30/09 by your Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
Click here to read the rest.
Click here to sign the letter.
Read on for a letter from Walter Hang.
Continue reading Coalition Letter Requesting Governor Paterson to withdraw the Department of Environmental Conservation's Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) for Oil and Gas Mining
By arimoore, on August 17th, 2009% Remind our DEC officials and the Governor’s office that the “produced water” laced with chemicals and worse will be transported by thousands of trucks pulverizing local roads designed for sightseeing like Route 89 or ones made for milk trucks, farm vehicles and school buses like Route 96. According to State Comptroller DiNapoli the upstate highway infrastructure is already crumbling and will require at least $250 billion dollars to fix and/or maintain in the next decade.
Let’s not forget to mention we are very concerned about where the hundreds of millions of gallons of water necessary to frack wells will come from – and where it will go once it’s polluted with chemicals!
Please contact:
Pete Grannis, DEC Commissioner
625 Broadway, 14th floor
Albany, NY 12233
petegrannis@gw.dec.state.ny.us
(518) 402-8540
Judith Enck, Deputy Sec. for the Environment
State Capital Executive Chambers
Room 245
Albany, NY 12224
judith.enck@chamber.state.ny.us
(518) 473-5442
Governor David A. Paterson
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
518-474-8390
By shirari, on June 19th, 2009% Action recommendations from Don Barber, Chair Tompkins County Council of Governments, Supervisor Town of Caroline:
June 15, 2009 7 PM
Broome Community College
Natural Gas Drilling and Local Government Responsibility to Protect the Health, Safety, and Well Being of its Citizens
In general local governments need to find ways to insert themselves into a process that the State has written us out of.
Potential action steps:
- Develop overweight vehicle permits and driveway permits to protect your roads and create direct contact/negotiations with the drilling firm.
- Identify and legislate critical environmental areas (CEA) within your municipality. DEC must then perform site specific SEQR review for permit applications which affect these CEA’s
- Contact every State Legislator, Governor Paterson and his Deputy Secretary for the Environment, and the DEC Commissioner that we need:
- Notification of permit applications and permits issued;
- Emergency Services need contact info, hazardous material info, gas fire training;
- Fuel production tax or Severance tax to create proper revenues to local governments – tax revenue to support DEC oversight program
- Contact State Legislators requesting that ECL Section 23-0303 be amended so that local governments become involved agencies for SEQR review. And to support S8748 Natural Gas Drilling Prohibition Near Watershed
- Contact your Congressperson and US Senator to support HR 2766 Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2009.
Signed,
Don Barber
Chair Tompkins County Council of Governments, Supervisor Town of Caroline, 607-539-3395, supervisor@townofcaroline.org
Please Contact:
Pete Grannis, DEC Commissioner
625 Broadway, 14th floor
Albany, NY 12233
petegrannis@gw.dec.state.ny.us
(518)402-8540
Judith Enck, Deputy Sec. for the Environment
State Capital Executive Chambers
Room 245
Albany, NY 12224
judith.enck@chamber.state.ny.us
(518) 473-5442
Governor David A. Paterson
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
http://161.11.121.121/govemail
518-474-8390
There was a special TCCOG meeting held at the Ithaca Town Hall on March 30th by Municipal and Environmental Attorney Kimberlea Rea. The white paper for her talk is available by following the gas drilling link on the TCCOG website:
http://www.tompkins-co.org/legislature/TCCOG/
A video of the meeting can be found at http://tompco.net/tccog/gas.html
By shirari, on May 13th, 2009% Shaleshock Office at the Workers Center (upstairs Autumn Leaves bookstore, Commons – map)
Please come to an open-space style gathering to meet other concerned people, share ideas, have important conversations, and organize action.
Refreshments will be served (bring something if you can). Childcare and activities will be available. Please forward this link if you know someone who wants to get involved!
By shirari, on February 13th, 2009% The Final Scope and list of locations including DEC offices and 35 libraries where it will be available for review are posted on the Department’s website at http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/45912.html.
Or, download them here:
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