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Lobby Day: Reserve your seat on the bus to Albany

By arimoore, on January 11th, 2010%

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.

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The Big Takeover

By arimoore, on August 26th, 2009%

The Big Takeover by Peter Gorman for Fort Worth Weekly:

It’s been a tough spring and summer for the gas drilling industry’s public image.

In Caddo Parish in Louisiana’s northwest corner, 17 head of cattle died in late April after drinking “frac” water that entered their pasture. During the last several months, earthquakes in Johnson County and at D/FW International Airport caused gas companies to shut down injection wells thought to be responsible. And then a couple of week ago, a film showing invisible poisonous hydrocarbons escaping into the air at gas well sites in North Texas appeared on YouTube. Closest to home, 14 new wells are planned for a Fort Worth park within 600 feet of a proposed elementary school and community center. Oh, and a gas industry lobbying group has been given the right to put a class in a Fort Worth public high school, with full control of the curriculum.

“Sounds like the apocalypse when you just rattle them off like that,” said Don Young, founder of Fort Worth CanDo and a consistent voice against urban gas drilling. The seemingly endless horror stories have activists like Young shaking their heads in disbelief. “Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something else happens to shock you again,” he said. (Read more)

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June 9th Lobby Day: Albany

By shirari, on May 29th, 2009%

We have begun making appointments with legislators on June 9.  The plan is to gather there perhaps around 9:30 AM in the cafe on the concourse.  Roger Downs (Sierra Club) will address the group briefly about what we will be doing that day.  If people want to be sure to have an appointment w/ their legislator, it’s important to get the info ASAP re: who their reps are.  So far we’ve got about 10-12 people coming from various counties–Otsego, Chenango, Tompkins, Tioga.  Hoping also for folks from Broome, Chemung, Madison.  Lobbying will end w/ the governor’s office (hopefully). Info we would like to have from each person:  Name, email, phone #, county, senator and assemblyperson.  We plan to send you lobby material via email ahead of time for people to study. We’ve discovered that the actual time we will have w/ legislators or their aides will be very short.  But the contacts we make will be very useful for future?communication. Contact Paddy Lane ocountygas@gmail.com 

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