Legislative Articles

  • CRIMINALIZATION of HYDROFRACKING: SPAN NY Public Law #1
    Nov 9 2011
    Jail the FRACKERS - Make FRACKING a CRIME!

    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

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  • EARTHQUAKES a REAL THREAT to HYDRO-FRACKING!
    Oct 5 2011
    The Dangers of Hydraulic Fracturing and Earthquakes
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  • EARTHQUAKES a REAL THREAT to HYDRO-FRACKING!
    Oct 5 2011
    Governor Cuomo How will you Protect our ground water from the toxic chemicals u
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  • A Member's Resource List
    Sep 22 2011

    STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE

    HYDROFRACKING ISSUES and DOCUMENTATION LINKS

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  • Tell DRBC - No water withdrawal for gas drilling!
    May 8 2011

    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. 

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  • Josh Fox's open letter to the Delaware River Basin Commission
    Apr 15 2011

    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.

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  • Former Bush EPA Official Says Fracking Exemption Went Too Far; Congress Should Revisit
    Mar 9 2011

    When Benjamin Grumbles was assistant administrator for water at the Environmental Protection Agency in the George W. Bush administration, he oversaw the release of a 2004 EPA report that determined that hydraulic fracturing was safe for drinking water. Then he watched as Congress used those findings to bolster the case for passing a law that prohibited the EPA from regulating fracking under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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  • Quebec government puts brakes on shale-gas drilling
    Mar 9 2011
    Quebec environment Minister Pierre Arcard released the highly anticipated enviro

    MONTREAL - The Quebec government is putting the brakes on shale-gas drilling and exploration in the province, following the release of a special committee report saying such work should be delayed until the government can do a strategic environmental evaluation.

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  • Pressure Limits Efforts to Police Drilling for Gas
    Mar 3 2011
    Carol Browner

     When Congress considered whether to regulate more closely the handling of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the 1980s, it turned to the Environmental Protection Agency to research the matter. E.P.A. researchers concluded that some of the drillers’ waste was hazardous and should be tightly controlled.

    But that is not what Congress heard. Some of the recommendations concerning oil and gas waste were eliminated in the final report handed to lawmakers in 1987.

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