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Libous sure knows what the DEC was up to
From the Desk of Senator Tom LibousApril 27, 2010 Dear ———-, DEC announced last week that permit applications in the Syracuse and New York City watersheds will be excluded from their environmental review process. All applications for horizontal drilling in these watersheds would need to be reviewed on a case by case basis. You can…
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A hearing of our own: draft SGEIS hearing, Oneonta, 11/9
Public Hearing on the dSGEIS to be held in Oneonta, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Atrium Monday, November 9, 7:00 to 9:30 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Local hearing for public comment on DEC’s Draft of the SGEIS October 30, 2009, Oneonta, NY. The City of Oneonta and Otsego County together are holding a public…
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DEC’s dSGEIS released today: 60 day comment period ends 11/30/09, no public hearings
The next step in the process of creating “regulations clearing the wayfor shale development” (see http://www.cik.no/norse/081111/081111_norse.php, minute 23:41) is upon us. ============================================== From NYS DEC website: Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental ImpactStatement On The Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program Well Permit Issuance for Horizontal Drilling And High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing to Develop the Marcellus Shale and…
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D E C e p t i o n
Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica: New York State Paves Way for Gas Drilling With Release of Environmental Review Nornew knew it all along; do the citizens of New York State? See also the New York Times: State Issues Rules on Upstate Natural Gas Drilling Near City’s Water The DEC could not allow a ban on horizontal drilling / high-volume…
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If at first you don’t spill enough, try, try again
Dimock, PA, approximately Thursday, 9/3:A blowout occurs during drilling under a road and wetland for a gas pipeline, resulting in a large spill of drilling mud. Witnesses report a greasy, gray film running down a water body. Local people who hear about the blowout have difficulty getting the straight story, despite persistently asking questions of…
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Why is Broome County hiring a lobbyist at taxpayer expense, against the interests of most of its citizens, to lobby for a wealthy & powerful industry that wrote the book on lobbying? (and does very, very well all by itself)
An e-mail from one citizen & taxpayer to Barbara Fiala: I am writing in regard to Broome County’s decision to hire a lobbyistto urge Albany not to get “bogged down” in its environmental review ofdrilling in the Marcellus Shale. The shale gas drilling techniques that have come into use over thelast decade were developed in…