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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
By Clover56, on January 28th, 2010%
 NATURAL GAS WITH UN-NATURAL CONSEQUENCES:
THE HEALTH RISKS OF SHALE GAS DRILLING
Tuesday, February 23, 6:30-8:30 at The Forum room, Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), 170 North St, Dryden, NY.
The presenters will be Ron Bishop, lecturer in Chemistry at SUNY Oneonta; Thomas Shelly, chemical safety and hazardous materials specialist; Adam Law, a physician who specializes in endocrinology. Dr. William Klepack, a family practice physician in Dryden, will be introducing the speakers.
Doors will open at 6:00 and talks start at 6:30. The evening will be divided into three half hour presentations, with a question and answer period following the presentations.
The presentations:
Ron Bishop, lecturer in chemistry at SUNY Oneonta, will offer a powerpoint presentation addressing the why and how of the unconventional gas drilling technique known as high-volume, slick-water, hydrofracturing. Bishop holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Youngstown State University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The West Virgina University School of Medicine. In his 17 years of full-time research, his projects were related to cancer and biosafety. For the last 11 years, Bishop has taught a variety of courses (biology, genetics, general and organic chemistry, biochemistry and environmental sciences) in high schools and colleges. He currently teaches in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at SUNY Oneonta, and is nationally certified in chemical hazards management.
Thomas Shelley, chemical safety and hazardous materials specialist and chemist by profession!,will follow Ron Bishop s presentation with a discussion of how the chemicals used at the drilling site are handled, what chemicals come back out of the ground with the drilling waste fluids and the categories of different chemical mixtures. He will also talk about the established links between chemicals and health, and address some of the issues of radioactivity in the waste fluid. Shelley worked in Cornell Environmental Health and Safety for 18 years as a chemical and laboratory safety specialist. For much of that time he was the Chemical Hygiene Officer for Cornell University.
Adam Law is a physician who specializes in endocrinology. He will present a brief overview of the disruptions chemicals can bring to the human body s endocrine system. Adam Law was raised in London, UK where he received his medical degree and his doctorate in molecular medicine. He has 8 years of basic science research experience in molecular biology and biochemistry. He has been an attending physician at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca since 1994 and was President of the medical staff 2009. He became aware of gas drilling in the Finger Lakes portion of the Marcellus shale after questions from his concerned patients. As an endocrinologist he has been inspired by the work of Dr. Theo Colborn, founder of the Endocrine Disruptor Exchange.
This forum is sponsored by Shaleshock Citizen s Action Alliance and co-sponsored by the
Center for Transformative Action, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, Gas Drilling Awareness of Cortland County, TC3 Sustainability Council, Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition, Sustainable Otsego, Sustainable Tompkins, and Marcellus Accountability Project.
For more information contact Shaleshock08@yahoo.com or call Sharon Anderson, Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County at 607-272-2292
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By arimoore, on January 13th, 2010%
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
Women’s Community Building, Seneca St., Ithaca, NY
By arimoore, on January 12th, 2010%
Ithaca Area Poets writes,
I noticed a theme is on many hearts and minds right now – concerns about hydrofracking in Marcellus shale.
SO, next month (February 12th, 7pm) bring your poem or poems about Fracking (and Marcellus region and clean water)! I am going to try to organize prizes for participants, and possibly we’ll videotape the readings to help with the movement for clean water. If you’re too shy to read them on camera or you can’t come, send them to me ahead of time and someone else will read them for you (please tell me if you want us to say your name or you want to be anonymous)! Also, if you’re willing to bring print copies for me, that would be super. Thanks!
Click here for more info.
By arimoore, on December 8th, 2009%
Check out episode #949 of The Capitol Connection on WAMC Northeast Public Radio: “Host Alan Chartock is joined by WAMC Hudson Valley bureau chief Susan Barnett, who analyzes the ongoing fight over the proposed Marcellus Shale Formation drilling. They also discuss the political implications of any decisions on the drilling.”
Click here to listen
By arimoore, on November 11th, 2009%
The New York-based Toxics Targeting went through the Department of Environmental Conservation’s own database of hazardous substances spills over the past thirty years. They found 270 cases documenting fires, explosions, wastewater spills, well contamination and ecological damage related to gas drilling. Many of the cases remain unresolved. The findings are contrary to repeated government assurances that existing natural gas well regulations are sufficient to safeguard the environment and public health. The state is considering allowing for gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale watershed, the source of drinking water for 15 million people, including nine million New Yorkers. Guest: Walter Hang, President of Toxics Targeting, an environmental database firm in Ithaca, New York. (More at Democracy Now)
Walter Hang writes:
I just posted data at www.toxicstargeting.com for 270 oil and gas spill spills in New York State that have caused fires, explosions, home evacuations, polluted drinking water wells as well as long-term impacts on forests, streams, wetlands, ponds and other waterways.
You can view video of flammable drinking water in Candor, NY reported by a homeowner “who is concerned about natural gas drilling near him.”
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.
By arimoore, on October 21st, 2009%
The Tompkins County Planning Department website has several Powerpoint presentations that are of interest in regards to Marcellus shale gas drilling. Check them out!
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