The time to make your voice heard is tonight! Wednesday September 9, 7:00pm, at Horseheads High School (map).

The village of Horseheads wants to allow a huge corporation, Schlumberger, to build a giant facility serving a 300-mile gas drilling radius with explosives, radioactive material, and concentrated toxic chemicals across the street from a school, without requiring a full environmental impact statement (EIS). Hundreds of trucks will be carrying these materials to and from the facility every single day. The effects will range from air pollution and health hazards from Diesel exhaust to water contamination.

Horseheads wants to do this so that they can secure a few hundred jobs (most of them dangerous and unpleasant) for the duration of the project. Many landowners who have signed leases and whose sites will be serviced have been coerced into signing, and the drilling profits will primarily benefit the companies doing the drilling – not the landowners themselves, or the communities that will be affected by the project. This three hundred mile radius includes most, if not all of us, but we have absolutely no voice – except for tonight!

If natural gas extraction by unconventional means must occur as part of a well-thought out and soberly constructed NYS energy plan, then LET US DO IT METHODICALLY AND CAREFULLY. Go tonight and make your voice heard. Call some friends and arrange a car pool. This is the only chance to speak publicly on this topic before the joint board workshop on Sept. 15. Even if you don’t want to speak, go and listen to what others have to say, and show Horseheads and Schlumberger that you care about this assault on our region.