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Community Organizing and Outreach

Oppostion to Fracking

Businesses

A JOINT STATEMENT ON HYDROFRACKING IN NEW YORK STATE BY THE LEATHERSTOCKING CORPORATION AND BREWERY OMMEGANG

Mar 15, 2011 The Leatherstocking Corporation, The Otesaga Hotel, The Cooper Inn and The Leatherstocking Golf Course, join with Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York, to express our profound concern over the utilization of hydrofracking methods in the drilling for shale gas in Otsego County.

PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP STATEMENT ON HYDROFRACKING FOR SHALE GAS

Last year we purchased millions of dollars of New York State produced agricultural products. If hydrofracking is allowed to go forward we will start researching alternatives to NYS products. December 8, 2010.

The Farmers’ Museum and the New York State Historical Association Statement on Hydrofracking

March 23, 2011

Brewery Ommegang Calls for Ban on Hydrofracking

Otsego County’s pure water threatened by water pollution and other environmental risks. December 2010.

Civic Organizations

Governor Cuomo: Imagine There’s No Fracking….

New York Times ad by Yoko and Sean For Artists Against Fracking Dec 10, 2012

Hydrogeologic Concerns Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing with the Muskingum River Watershed in Easter Ohio

Oct 17, 2012 report prepared for Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water

The League of Women Voters of New York State

The LWV of New York supports a bill that would impose a drilling moratorium until after the EPA has concluded its study of hydaulilc fracturing and drinkine water safety. June 4, 2010.

Conservation Societies

Postion Statement from the Otsego COunty Conservation Association

Gas development cannot be shown to safeguard the intrinsic qualities each and every one of us so cherish here in our immediate environment. June 17, 2009

Statement of Trout Unlimited at the Forum on Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing on Public Lands, Department of the Interior

We know from experience that fracking and related gas development pose substantial risks to trout watersheds. NOvember 2010.

Faith-Based

Principles for considering Marcellus Shale Drilling:

Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light (PA IPL) is a community of congregations, faith-based organizations, and individuals of faith responding to climate change as a moral issue. Posted September 2011.

2010 REPORTS TO THE NEW YORK ANNUAL CONFERENCEPETITION # 2010-314 — ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OVERSIGHT OF 20 HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PROCESS

A REsolution to support the Frac Act and urging the NY DEC to fully protect the environment and the health of NY residents. Submitted by the Methodist Federation for Social Action

Horizontal Hydrofracking: An Issue of Church Concern

The Session of the First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown supports a temporary moratorium on gas drilling. Adopted November 15, 2010.

What is Fracking and Why Should I Care?

Methodist Federation for Social Action/NY Chapter in it’s 2010 Annual Conference Newsletter advocates for a “federal” approach to drilling and the passing of the FRAC act.

Beware fracking’s allure: ‘Cleaner’ fuel alternative not necessarily safer

Article expressing concerns about fracking found in General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. In part…”We, as caretakers of God’s good creation, must bear in mind that it is our duty to seek out energy solutions rooted in our values of justice and sustainability.” January, 2011.

Hydrualic Fracturing Position Statement by New York Interfaith Power & Light

NYIPL expresses “serious concerns about the safety of hydraulic fracturing Position Statement.

New York Faith Leaders Call on Peers to Speak Out on Fracking New Film Cites Our Role as Stewards of the Earth; Warns Against Exploitation

Press Release dated Feb 6, 2013 from Grassroots Environment Education, Inc.

Dozens of NYC Faith Leaders Call On Gov. Cuomo to Protect State from Fracking at Office Pray-In

Feb 6, 2013 New York, NY – The list of faith leaders who gathered today outside Governor Cuomo’s NYC office to lead a multidenominational pray-in against Cuomo’s plan to allow fracking,

The Medical Profession

Dr. Adam Law’s Personal Statement in support of a Health Impact Assessment

Written for “Doctor’s Orders: No Fracking” Event organized by Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy

STATEMENT FROM BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER BOARD OF TRUSTEES

RESOLUTION BY THE MEDICAL STAFF OF THE BASSETT HEALTHCARE NETWORK REGARDING HYDROFRACKING FOR NATURAL GAS Feb, 2011

Sandra Steingraber Statement Regarding Health Impact Assessment

May 30, 2012

The American Academy of Pediatrics, District II, New York State supports a Drilling Moratorium

The American Academy of Pediatrics, Dist. II, NYS, representing strongly supports a moratorium on high-volume hydraulic fracturing until after the the EPA has concluded its ongoing study of hydraulic fracturing and drinking wafter safety. June 7, 2010.

Statement from the Physicians of Tompkins County

The exploitation of natural gas in the Marcellus shale involves high-pressure injection of over 200 billion of gallons of water and billions of gallons of water-soluble chemicals into the shale formations to allow the release of natural gas. Backflow from this process contains heavy metals, radioactive materials and volatile organic compounds. The effects of this process on human health have not been subject to rigorous medical research. Fall of 2010.

Statement from the Onondaga Medical Society

The Onondaga County Medical Society expresses its strongly held opinion that there is insufficient scientific evidence available to assure that the process of hydrofracking to enhance natural gas production is safe. November 26, 2010.

Broome County Medical Society RESOLUTION Moratorium on Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Gas Field

August 25, 2010

New York State Counties

Cortlandt County New York Calls for a Temporary Ban on Hydrofracking

April 23, 2010.

Onandoga County Calls for a Temporary Ban on Hydrofracking

Seeks a restoration of home rule. March 2, 2010.

Putnam County, New York Resolution Calling for a Staewide Ban on Hydrofracking

August 5, 2010.

Tompkins County New York Calls for a Temporary Ban on Hyrdrofracking

May 18, 2010.

Westchester County New York Calls for a Statewide Moratorium on Hydrofracking

June 7, 2010.

Municipalities

Citizens Campaign for the Environment Hydro-Fracking Resource Center

Listing of county and town hydro-fracking Resolutions Posted July 25, 2011

Elected Officials to Protect New York

A letter from more than 280 local elected officials urging Governor Cuomo to maintain the de facto moratorium on high-volume hydraulic fracturing until scientific and health impact studies have been conducted. June 4, 2012.

New York State Hydrofracking Bans and Restrictions

Locations of all counties and municipalities around New York State that have either banned or placed some type of restriction(s) on Hydraulic Fracturing in their area. Google Maps

The Pittsburgh Ordinance Banning Gas Extraction

This Ordinance shall be known and may be cited as “Pittsburgh’s Community Protection from Natural Gas Extraction Ordinance.” November, 2010.

Re: The Pittsburgh Ban

The Pittsburgh City Council became the first municipality in the United States to ban natural gas extraction within its boundaries. A letter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. November 24, 2010.

Flower Mound, Texas Supports the FRAC Act

June 7, 2010

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