FERC has approved lots of fossil-fuel projects in NY and wants to rubberstamp more. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has the power to stop one of these projects right now: the “Constitution” pipeline. But ONLY if it denies the project’s water quality certificate by the end of April. Governor Cuomo needs to stop the invasion of these ruinous pipelines, compressor stations, and gas-fired power plants in our communities. Come to Albany and tell the governor to stand up to FERC, protect NY from fracked gas infrastructure!
*RALLY DETAILS* Tuesday April 5, 2016 11:30 am to 2:30 pm East Capitol Park with a march to DEC headquarters Eagle Street, between State St. & Washington Ave., Albany, NY In case of rain: Million Dollar Staircase, inside Capitol Building Speakers at East Capitol Park: - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Waterkeeper Alliance – PELC - Wenonah Hauter – Food & Water Watch - Karenna Gore – Center for Earth Ethics - Maya van Rossum – Delaware Riverkeeper Network - Rosemary Wessel – No Fracked Gas in Mass - Anne Marie Garti – Stop the Pipeline – PELC Actions and march: - Wes Gillingham – Catskill Mountainkeeper (Capitol Building) - Kim Fraczek – Sane Energy Project (March Leader) Speakers at DEC headquarters: - Roger Downs – Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter - Kanerahtiio Jock, Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Bear Clan - Doug Couchon – We Are Seneca Lake - Jim Cutler – Sugar Shack Alliance – Hilltown Community Rights - Representatives of other participating organizations *TRANSPORTATION* *Binghamton Bus*: $0 - $27 round trip, suggested donation Book a seat here: https://goo.gl/2AUERw Email: [email protected] Phone: 607-296-8265 *Oneonta area Buses* (Cooperstown, Sharon Springs, Richmondville, Cobleskill): $15 round trip, suggested donation Email: [email protected] Phone: 607-547-8881 *Ithaca Carpooling*: https://www.facebook.com/events/1243022739058777/?ref=98&action_history=null *NYC Bus*: $25 round trip Book a seat here: https://www.greyhound.com/en/ecommerce/schedule Or here: https://www.greyhound.com/en Greyhound bus leaves NYC at 7am, arrives in Albany at 10am. Short walk to Empire State Plaza. Return on the 3:30pm bus to get back to NYC at 6:15pm. *Parking info for those carpooling*: There’s a parking lot under Empire Plaza. It is listed as lot V-3 on this list, which includes many other parking lots as well: http://ogs.ny.gov/BU/BA/Parking/Visitor/ *Google Map of rally area in Albany*: https://goo.gl/tu6KLZ *Driving directions* (East Capitol Park is just below the word “Capitol” in the rectangle on this map): http://assembly.state.ny.us/directions/ *For more rally information*: http://www.stopthepipeline.org *PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:* Berks Gas Truth • BEAT • Beyond Extreme Energy • CaPOW • Catskill Citizens For Safe Energy • Catskill Mountainkeeper • C-Care • CEEC • Citizen Action-NY • Climate Mama • Complete It Cuomo • Compressor Free Franklin • Concerned Burlington Neighbors • Concerned Citizens of McDonough • Concerned Citizens of Otego • Concerned Residents of Oxford • Damascus Citizens for Sustainability • DAG • Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society • Delaware Riverkeeper Network • Earthworks • Food & Water Watch • Frack Action • Friends of Sustainable Sidney • MRAD • Mass-PLAN • Middlefield Neighbors • Milford Doers • Millers River Watershed Council • Minisink Matters • Mohawk Valley Keeper • No Fracked Gas in Mass • North Quabbin Pipeline Action • Otsego 2000 Otsego Neighbors • Peacemakers of Schoharie County • People, Not Pipelines • Protect Orange County • Residents of Crumhorn Mountain • Sane Energy Project • Stop Algonquin Pipeline Expansion • Sharon Springs Against Hydrofracking • Sierra Club-AC • Stop New York Frack Gas Pipeline • Solutions Grassroots • Stop Minisink Compressor Station • Stop NED • Stop The Pipeline • Sustainable Otsego • Waterfall Unity Alliance • We Are Seneca Lake Irene Weiser [email protected] Brooktondale, NY 607-539-6856 *Joy to the world* *All the boys and girls* *Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea* *Joy to you and me.* For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
