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By shirari, on July 15th, 2009%
Ithaca Journal Covers Ithaca Town Board Meeting/Shaleshock Presentation by Krisy Gashler:
Hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale will require much more water and chemicals than used in the conventional natural gas drilling that has occurred in New York for decades, members of Shaleshock told the Town Board.
That will mean more trucks carrying water to wastewater treatment plants, which aren’t equipped to handle the waste, and the trucks will increase noise and dust, while damaging small country roads, they said.
The gas industry highlights the potential for $22 billion in gas revenues, but they don’t account for the potential loss in revenue from things like hunting and fishing, farming, and tourism, Shaleshock member Lisa Ann Wright said.
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By shirari, on June 15th, 2009%
Protecting town roads by Fritz Mayer for River Reporter:
I don’t know if people understand how many trucks will be going in and out of a well-drilling site… A million gallons of water comes in, depending on the size of the truck, 400 to 500 tractor-trailer loads of water coming in and out of a site. The majority of our roads are not sufficiently developed to handle this type of traffic… These roads have to stay open for the ambulance service, the fire service, school buses, and no town here can afford to have a $1 million worth of damage to one of the roads, be expected to fix it, and get into a legal battle with any of these companies that are coming in.
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By shirari, on June 11th, 2009%
A public forum on the effects of Marcellus Shale gas drilling on local water sources will be held Monday, June 22 at the Bath Fire Hall, 50 East Morris St., in Bath from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. The forum is for community members, landowners and local government officials, and is sponsored by the Steuben County Environmental Management Council, the Finger Lakes Group of the Sierra Club, the League of Women Voters of Steuben County, the League of Women Voters of Chemung County and the Bath Peace and Justice Group.
The speakers at the forum will be Steve Penningroth, executive director of the state-certified water testing laboratory at the Community Science Institute in Ithaca, Ron Bishop, lecturer in chemistry and biochemistry at SUNY Oneonta, and Andrew Byers, a farmer/botanist from Newfield who has been studying gas drilling issues.
Ron Bishop will give an overview of natural gas extraction technology and explain how water contamination can occur during the gas drilling process. Steve Penningroth will describe how to test private and municipal water wells so that landowners and municipal officials can discover problems and have solid scientific baseline water data that will stand up in court should contamination occur. Andrew Byers will describe how community members who are knowledgeable about these issues can take action.
The forum is free and open to the public. For more information, call 607-569-2114.
By shirari, on June 11th, 2009%
Waste from Marcellus shale drilling in Cross Creek Park kills fish:
A leaking waste water pipe from a Range Resources Marcellus shale gas well drilled in Washington County’s Cross Creek Park has polluted an unnamed tributary of Cross Creek Lake, killing fish, salamanders, crayfish and aquatic insect life in approximately three-quarters of a mile of the stream.
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By shirari, on March 28th, 2009%
Lisa Ann Wright of Ithaca wrote to the Ithaca Journal,
While I am very pleased The Ithaca Journal headlined with reporter Krisy Gashler’s story last week “Cayuga Heights plant accepts drilling wastewater” on March 12, I have sadly come to expect the sort of collective shrug of Ithacans as to the full meaning of what is happening all around us. Gashler reported that “Erik Whitney, assistant superintendent of public works for water and sewer in the City of Ithaca, said the Ithaca wastewater treatment plant does not accept any gas drilling water, from vertical, horizontal or hydraulic fracture drilling.” So why is Cayuga Heights accepting it? What’s happening to the brine? Is that being spread on our roads as it is in other states? What did Cayuga Heights test the fluids for? Which specific tests did they run? Which certified test methods were used? What were the concentrations in the waste fluids? Would Cayuga Heights be willing to allow an independent lab to test this stuff for the kinds of things that are known to be present in most gas well waste fluids? In Van Etten, Fortuna Energy wants to dispose of produced water from drilling into old gas wells – and now this.
What is it going to take for the people of this community to see how these things are connected, like our water is?
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By shirari, on March 28th, 2009%
 Wilson: “The drillers have run amok.” Photo BY JEFF PRINCE
In the current issue of the Fort Worth Weekly, Jeff Prince reports on a few Texas women who are going beyond the call of duty to protect their homes, families and generations to come from gas drillers who are running amok on all we hold dear.
Their are many, many more unheralded women around the state and country who have been inspired to do the same.
All of them deserve our support. Read Jeff’s report.
By shirari, on March 12th, 2009%
“While the Ithaca wastewater plant’s owners deliberate whether to accept the liquefied remains of animal carcasses from Cornell University, the Cayuga Heights wastewater treatment plant is already accepting wastewater from gas drilling companies.”
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