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Citizens' Community Forum on Hydro-Fracking

By Clover56, on February 8th, 2010%

Citizens’ Community Forum on Hydro-Fracking (Media Release)

Wednesday        February 10, 2010     7:00 – 9:00pm

Nottingham High School

3100 East Genesee St.

Syracuse, New York

Over 12,000 citizens and organizations wrote comments on the dSGEIS to NYS DEC.

Untallied thousands wrote letters, made phone calls and signed petitions to NYS DEC, Governor David Paterson and government representatives opposing hydro-fracking.

There were no formal DEC Public Hearings on the dSGEIS in Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and Utica.

Hundreds of farmers and other land owners have leased their land to gas companies without being informed of the use of hydro-fracking technology and its severe consequences.

There is a growing grassroots movement across NYS and the nation to ban hydro-fracking.

Within this context, citizens are creating a Citizens’ Community Forum on Hydro-Fracking.

We have invited a variety of local through federal representatives.

Confirmed Participants (as of January 27th) are:

· Lee Macbeth, Syracuse Watershed Control Coordinator

· Ken Lynch, Region 7 DEC Director

· Dave Valesky, State Senator

· Mark Dunnau, Northeast Organic Farmers Association and Delaware County Farm Bureau

· Local landowners who have signed leases

We are awaiting confirmation from Region 2 EPA, Governor Paterson, State Senator Antoine Thompson and Congressman Dan Maffei.

Representatives will open the event with brief comments.  Then there will be time for citizens to voice their concerns.

Concerns will go under the following categories:

· Environmental concerns

· Human Health concerns

· Fossil Fuel versus green, sustainable energy concerns

· Climate Change concerns

· Economic concerns

· Rural, agricultural concerns

Contacts:

Stacey Smith   315-470-0778

Leyana Dessauer 315-470-0778

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Season's greetings – and a call to action

By arimoore, on December 28th, 2009%

Dear readers,

Thank you for reading this blog this year. You may have noticed we have a new look here at Shaleshock.org – we’ve changed the site to reflect the diversity of Working Groups that are all part of this movement. Please explore the new site, and consider reaching out to a working group to get involved.

I want to share a beautiful letter and song written by my friend and colleague Travis Knapp (below). I hope will inspire you as much as it has inspired me.

In solidarity,
Ari Moore

Greetings to all! I sincerely hope this finds you well, during a period of both reflection and envisioning.

I’ve attached a song I just recorded called “The Water.” Listen to it if you have a moment :-)
Download / Play “The Water” (MP3)

Only a few days left here to gather your thoughts for a letter to the DEC …. Get some more folks signed onto that petition. Let us not underestimate the importance of unifying our minds and hearts. And most importantly, keep working at your amazing projects that are the positive creativity we all long for, thrive on, and need. It is these very projects – which invigorate our communities, regenerate our land, and ground our spirits – that make this place worth standing up for.

Here’s to a coming year full of great clarity,
Travis Knapp

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TAKE ACTION NOW: Email and call Congressman Hinchey and Congressman Arcuri to ask that they protect our safety

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.
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6,000 sign petition asking DEC to strengthen natural gas-drilling regulations

By arimoore, on December 16th, 2009%

Check out this update on Walter Hang’s petition in Krisy Gashler’s 6,000 sign petition asking DEC to strengthen natural gas-drilling regulations, for the Binghamton PressSun Bulletin:

An Ithaca environmental activist and 6,000 other individuals and organizations asked the governor Tuesday to withdraw the state’s newly drafted regulations on natural gas drilling, saying the state’s entire regulatory framework needs to be strengthened before more drilling occurs.

Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting, is the activist who last month publicized 270 spill reports from the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s own database, documenting well contamination and other environmental pollution related to the conventional, vertical gas drilling that has gone on in New York State for decades.

“DEC’s own data document systematic, on-going failures to prevent oil and gas drilling pollution impacts or to clean them up. It is imperative that DEC resolve those regulatory shortcomings prior to issuing new drilling permits,” the petition states.

Signatories include state Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, U.S. Congressman Eric Massa, the National Resources Defense Council, Common Cause, Earthjustice, Earthworks, and the New York State Public Interest Research Group.

The Ithaca Town Board also voted unanimously Monday night to urge the governor to withdraw the regulations. (Read more)

Click here to sign the coalition letter and click here for two other urgent petitions.

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We need even MORE time! Sign the petition to ask for another extension on the DEC comment period

By arimoore, on November 16th, 2009%

We now have more time to comment on the dSGEIS, but even having another month isn’t enough – the document we’re commenting on is over 800 pages long.

Click HERE to sign the petition from Catskill Mountainkeeper, asking for yet more time for the people to voice our concerns.

Click HERE for info on how to comment on the dSGEIS.

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Stop Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling Hazards Public Meeting

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.

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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 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.
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