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Join Sustainable Tompkins for an evening to learn from local energy experts how you can reduce your energy footprint through conservation, efficiency measures, and investments in renewable energy. Then, learn about and take the Marcellus Challenge. March 3, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm Ithaca Area Poets writes,
This just in from Onondaga Creek Conservation Council, Children’s Earth Day, Syracuse Peace Council, Neighbors of Onondaga Nation, and Partnership for Onondaga Creek: Rally for Water
Tuesday Evening 5:30 – 6:00 Location: Please let as many people know about this rally as possible. UPDATE below… Come to the state-wide rally and lobbying day in Albany on Monday, January 25! Let the Governor and other policy makers in Albany know of your concerns about hydrofracking. We have one Swarthout touring bus reserved for 47 people and can get more if we need them. Here’s the scoop: Cost: $30 per person, checks payable to “SHALESHOCK” in advance. If this is more than you can afford, pay what you can. If you can afford to pay more than $30, please do so. Sorry, no options for credit card payment. Reservations due: Tuesday, January 19. Send check to reserve your place to Sara Hess, 124 Westfield Drive, Ithaca, NY. There may be last-minute seats available, but don’t count on that. We have to commit to the size and number of buses on the 20th. Leaving and Returning time: The bus will leave at 6:00 am from behind the Ramada Inn (in front of Pyramid Mall on Triphammer Road.) There is a dirt parking lot behind the Ramada Inn where you can leave your car. We will arrive in Albany around 11 am, and depart at 4:30 pm. Arrival back in Ithaca estimated between 8:30pm. Bus comforts: The buses are comfortably equipped with bathrooms, recliner seats, DVD players. You may bring food but NO GLASS. Contact me with questions at sarahess63@yahoo.com. Continue reading Lobby Day: Reserve your seat on the bus to Albany **UPDATED** Have you attended the meetings and gotten all your friends and family and coworkers to sign the coalition letter? Itching for something more you can do? Judy Hyman and Mike Levy are hosting a small brainstorming session on Tuesday night to help empower people to push our movement even further. The way we see it, there must be people just like us all over the area: people sick about the current threats to our water, our community and our way of life—and ready to act. The plan is to enumerate a handful of strategies to help get the word out and get publicity so that we can put pressure on the governor. Then we’ll break up into small groups to come up with action steps and create independent groups to achieve each goal. This in no way should stop anyone from continuing to get the coalition letter signed. But once that’s done, what’s next? Where: Autumn Leaves Used Books (upstairs meeting space), 115 The Commons, Ithaca, NY Don’t forget about the Life is Water Concert this weekend, with performances by Donna the Buffalo, Sim Redmond Band and The Horse Flies starting at 8pm. Get your tickets now – time is running out! Click here for info. Proceeds will benefit Shaleshock – every ticket will help us pay for road signs, radio spots, photocopies, office rent, and other necessities. Shaleshock is a grassroots alliance run entirely by volunteers. We can really use your support! At Goldwin Smith Hall 132 (Hollis E Cornell Auditorium), Cornell Campus. RSVP on Facebook. Presenters: Walter Hang is President of Toxics Targeting, an environmental database firm in Ithaca, New York. He is the leading authority on environmental, toxicity, and public health issues related to Marcellus Shale gas drilling and the controversial drilling technique known as “hydrofracking” (short for horizontal chemical-laden hydraulic fracturing of shale where natural gas is contained). Many concerned citizens are asking: Does it make sense to contaminate essential resources such as water and soil in order to extract one resource – natural gas? Are we to drill first and ask questions later? Walter Hang will address these issues. He will use multimedia presentation to discuss the history of gas drilling in New York State and summarize findings on gas drilling pollution and environmental protection. Lisa Wright and Ryan Clover are leading organizers of Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance, a grassroots group of Finger Lakes residents seeking to protect regional communities and the environment from natural gas exploitation in the Marcellus Shale. They will discuss the environmental justice response to hydrofracking. They will provide you with opportunities to become involved. VIDEO: DEMOCRACY NOW! INTERVIEW with WALTER HANG: Watch See this very informative interview with Walter Hang by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! National Public Radio, November 10 2009. Sponsors: Palante (Proyecto Palante and Palante Salsa en Rueda Dance Troupe), Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance, Kyoto Now, New World Agriculture and Ecology Group. Event financed in party by Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. |
 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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