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By arimoore, on October 9th, 2009%
Gas Drilling: Legal Issues for Landowners (with or without a lease)
A free educational forum, open to all
With increased natural gas development in the Southern Tier will come new and complex legal issues that affect both landowners and communities. Please join us on Thursday, October 29, from 7:00 to 9:30 pm to hear presentations by legal experts, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
The forum will be held at Cornell Vet School’s James Law Auditorium on Tower Road, just a block from Rt. 366.
Topics will include
- lease terms and considerations
- “force majeure” lease extensions
- intricacies of lease extension/expiration
- compulsory integration (the legal extraction of gas from under unleased lands)
- liability issues
- protection of rights and property
All are encouraged to attend this unique event sponsored by the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) South Central NY Agricultural Team, together with Shaleshock Citizens Action Coalition, Community Science Institute, Finger Lakes Bioneers, Interfaith Action for Healing Earth, NYS Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, Sustainable Tompkins, and Tompkins County Farm Bureau.
For more information, please contact Schuyler CCE at 607-535-7161, or Tompkins CCE at 272-2292, or by email at: cab377@cornell.edu. More details will soon be posted to the CCE Natural Gas Development Resource Center website: http://gasleasing.cce.cornell.edu/ .
By shirari, on June 22nd, 2009%
See more videos from the June 15, 2009 Forum at Broome Community College, called “Gas Drilling: Stories From the Front Line.”
By shirari, on May 27th, 2009%
The Unitarian Universalist Church in Athens, PA (next to Sayre), is having its third session of a 3-part public forum on gas drilling. The topic is drilling’s effect on jobs and local community. Speaker will be Tony Ventello, Exec. Dir. of Central Bradford Authority.
Directions: Take exit 60 from Rte. 17/86 and go south on 220 for 2 miles. Follow signs into Athens which puts you onto Pine Street. Go several blocks and turn right at light onto Main Street. Go several more blocks, down a hill, and turn right onto North Street. Church is at 112 North Street on right side.
The third and last session will be held Tuesday, June 2 at 7 p.m. For more information, call the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin at 570-888-0252 or email minister@athensnuuc.org.
By shirari, on April 13th, 2009%
Women’s Community Building, 100 W. Seneca Street, Ithaca (map)
Presenters:
- Dr. William Pammer, Commissioner, Planning and Environmental Management for Sullivan County ( Monticello ), NY
- Dr. Stephen Penningroth, Executive Director, Community Science Institute, Ithaca, NY
Thousands of Tompkins County land owners, and thousands more in the surrounding Southern Tier, have signed leases to permit Marcellus Shale gas drilling on their property. Many expect to see drilling begin later this year, perhaps as early as summer.
While some welcome the drilling and others dread it, a common concern for all is the protection of our clean water and air, our land, and our quality of life. NY State law (Environmental Conservation Article 23) took the ability to regulate most aspects of gas drilling activity away from towns, and gave it to the New York State DEC instead. This leaves many local legislators and community members wondering just what they can do to protect our critical resources given these constraints. The Sullivan County, NY Drilling Task Force has been working for many months on answering just this question.
Dr. Pammer will describe the work of a Gas Drilling Task Force in Sullivan County and their research on possible impacts, the authority of local municipal governments, and 21 recommendations that will be presented to their County Legislature . You can find a newspaper story about the report at
www.sc-democrat.com/news/002February/20/news.htm and the full report on the Sullivan County Division of Planning website: www.scgnet.us/index.asp?orgid=610&storyTypeID=&sid=&
Dr. Penningroth, Biochemist and Toxicologist, directs the Community Science Institute’s state-certified water testing laboratory. The CSI lab monitors water quality in Cayuga Lake and its tributary streams in partnership with citizen volunteers. He believes a reasonable estimate of drinking water that will be contaminated near drilling sites is between 1% and 5%. He will describe why and how to test private water wells so that land owners discover problems and have solid scientific evidence of pre-drilling, baseline water data should contamination occur.
Co-sponsored by: Social Ventures; Ithaca Health Alliance ; Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton; Department of City & Regional Planning/ Cornell University ; Sustainable Tompkins; CRESP Center for Transformative Action; Shaleshock Citizens Action Coalition; Back to Democracy.
For copies of informational handouts from the recent forum, Gas Drilling: Health Effects, Economics and the Watershed:
www.shaleshock.org/open-educational-form-on-natural-gas-drilling-march-26th-in-ithaca/
Questions or comments? shaleshock08-at-yahoo-dot-com or 202-368-8753
By shirari, on March 4th, 2009%
The CitizensEnergyAlliance announces the following public forum in hosted by Fortuna Energy Corporation of Horseheads NY (see attached press release), concerning storage of hydrofracturing (“fracking”) drilling waste water in spent Southern Tier gas wells, a process that has already been permitted by the DEC (NYS Department of Environmental Conservation www.dec.ny.gov) and which is scheduled to proceed in the testing phase in the Mallula well in Van Etten NY, Chemung County this summer.
Fortuna Energy chemists, engineers, legal and public relations advisors will be on hand to present information, receive comments and answer questions from the public, local officials and residents.
Public Forum on Local Storage of Hydrofracturing Fluids
Wednesday, March 4th, 6 PM
Spencer-Van Etten High School Auditorium
16 Dartt Cross Rd. off Route 224, Spencer NY
For further information:
Citizen’s Energy Alliance: Autumn Stoschek 607-229-0230
jlobdell@fortunaenergy.com Horseheads HQ Public Relations, Fortuna Energy 607-562-4000
Fortuna Energy Good Neighbor Hotline (866-566-4747)
By shirari, on January 26th, 2009%
A public forum on the health and environmental impacts of new gas drilling techniques will be held Sun., Feb. 1 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm at the Southeast Steuben County Library in Corning. The forum is sponsored by the Sierra Club Finger Lakes Group. The forum will begin with a showing of a 31 minute documentary film showing the impacts of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in Colorado. The film features landowners and town and county officials discussing the impacts of the gas drilling on their lives. The film also features Dr. Theo Colburn, a research chemist who lives in Colorado, discussing her studies of the chemicals used by gas drilling companies. After viewing the film, we will discuss possible health and environmental impacts in our area if the DEC allows widespread use of these new techniques in New York State.
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