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Where does used hydrofracking solution go?

What happens when millions of gallons of toxic hydrofracking waste gush back up out of the earth after being injected? Where does it go after sitting around in pits for a while? Let’s look to Pennsylvania to see what’s happening there: Gas wells’ leftovers may wash into Ohio

Season's greetings – and a call to action

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

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

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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Protect Our Drinking Water in New York State!

Protect New York State drinking water from unsafe gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The hydrofracking process endangers drinking water supplies, uses billions of gallons of drinking water in the process and creates contaminated water that cannot be properly treated. In New York State, Governor Paterson needs to ban unsafe gas drilling in order to protect our drinking water supply. Safer methods are being developed that are well worth waiting for.

Protect Our Drinking Water in New York State! (YouTube video)
Take action now – click for petitions!

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

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.

Get your voice heard on the 12th in Chenango Bridge!

There will be a DEC hearing on the sGEIS (i.e., a chance for the public to tell the government what concerns us about their oversight or lack thereof of natural gas drilling) on Thursday, November 12, in Chenango Bridge, which is a suburb just north of Binghamton. It will be held at the Chenango Valley High School Auditorium, 221 Chenango Bridge Rd., Chenango Bridge, NY 13901. (Read on for directions and a map link.) Doors will open at 6 P.M. for individual questions and speaker sign up. The public comment session will start at 7 P.M.

Please bring clever posters, signs, or banners! Contact jandjweiss@frontiernet.net for information on carpooling from Ithaca.

Be sure to visit our Take Action Now page for suggested comments for the DEC!
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Is Marcellus Shale too hot to handle?

Read Abrahm Lustgarten’s Is Marcellus Shale too hot to handle?:

As New York gears up for gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It’s radioactive. And they have yet to say how they’ll deal with it. The information comes from New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, which analyzed 13 samples of wastewater brought thousands of feet to the surface from drilling and found that they contain levels of radium-226, a derivative of uranium, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink. (Read more)