Working to Protect the Catskill Region from the Dangers of Hydrofracking for Natural Gas
SAUGERTIES SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER
207 MARKET STREET
SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK 12477
New York Public Law #1
DRAFT — AUGUST 2011 — DRAFT
This bill was conceived and drafted by SPAN (Sovereign People’s Action Network of Ulster and Greene Counties) — Mark DeNat, Mary Finneran, Richard Grossman, Linda Leeds, Mary MacArthur, Joan Walker-Wasylyk, Jay Wenk
with Carl Arnold, Kate Bartholomew, Gusti Bogok, Suzannah Glidden, Jack Ossont and Maura Stephens, representing themselves and several groups from around New York State
This is our last chance to voice our problems with hydro-fracking in New York State..
before it becomes LAW!
PLEASE SEND your Comments in
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The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) plans to vote on a water withdrawal application by XTO Energy (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp.) for natural gas development in Broome and Delaware Counties, New York at their regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday, May 11, 2011. They have set a public hearing on the application at the 1:30 pm meeting, West Trenton Volunteer Fire Company, 40 W. Upper Ferry Rd., West Trenton, N.J.
Seven families in Bradford County have been asked to evacuate following a large spill during fracking operations in the Marcellus Shale at a Chesapeake Energy well west of Towanda, Pa. Earlier reports that there was a blow-out were inaccurate, according to company officials.
A local Emergency Management official said he didn't believe the families had gone anywhere.
WASHINGTON — Oil and gas companies injected hundreds of millions of gallons of hazardous or carcinogenic chemicals into wells in more than 13 states from 2005 to 2009, according to an investigation by Congressional Democrats.
Delaware River Basin Commission-
I am writing to the Delaware River Basin Commission in fierce and passionate opposition to permitting large scale industrial gas drilling anywhere in the River Basin. The Delaware River basin is a watershed area, a national treasure and should not be industrialized by large scale gas drilling.
3-14-11 in Binghamton, NY at NYRAD meeting-- Victoria is a resident of Dimock, Pa. where Cabot Gas. Co. polluted private water wells and has not corrected the problem-- this is ground Zero for the Gas Industry-- the real truth about the un-clean and un-natural Gas--
On December 21, 2010 the Tompkins County legislature passed a resolution to ban hydro-fracking on all county owned lands. Citizens voicing their support for the resolution. There were two drafts offered, but the first was amended and passed with only one vote against. Thanks to the Tompkins County Public Information Office for providing a video feed. The entire meeting can be viewed on the legislature's web site www.tompco.net/legislature.
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