PUBLIC MTG @ MECKLENBURG FIREHOUSE - Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:00 to 8:30pm Mecklenburg Firehouse (on County Route 6, just south of route 79)
Come express your concerns about the threats to our ground water, wells, and soil at a meeting about the Marcellus Shale gas drilling in Schuyler County. The people organizing this meeting are paid by an energy company to organize landowners to accept leasing their mineral rights, with their lawyer and also people from the state farm bureau. In other words, people who are gung-ho about the gas drilling. We need to be there with solid information and tough questions that will resonate with our neighbors. The Marcellus Shale Play means that political, economic, media, legal, and cultural strategies are being employed by the energy companies to get at the natural gas below our land and aquifers. Natural gas drilling and hydro-fracing are a threat to our water, soil, quality-of-life, and home values. It is not reasonable to trust oil and gas companies for small, short-term profits while risking long- term contamination. A local blog has begun: http://www.nywellwatch.org A grassroots group of Finger Lakes residents: http://www.shaleshock.org/ The Catskill Mountain Keeper has a great website that can serve as a primer about Marcellus Shale Drilling: http://catskillmountainkeeper.org/node/290 The local press is describing environmental regulations as a mere formality that will be waved through promptly: http://www.stargazette.com/article/20090216/NEWS01/902160307/1007/RSS01 Listen to a public radio broadcast about the leasing contracts people are being pressured, tricked, or blindly accepting: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wskg/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=793059 Read the New york State DEC web site on Marcellus Shale Drilling: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/46288.html Here is the law that may make it easier for oil and gas drilling companies to acquire leases and to overule local zoning ordinances: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/26498.html State Republican politicians believe the hype: http://www.the-leader.com/homepage/x545173268/Chemung-County-projects-may-create-1-000-jobs Scientific American describes the problem: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=drill-for-natural-gas-pollute-water News about impacts, accidents and investigations regarding local, regional and nationwide drilling operations: http://www.un-naturalgas.org/news_reports.htm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.flxpermaculture.net regional regenerative resources - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
