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Fracking Hell: The Untold Story NY Plans to Frack DGEIS responses UPCOMING EVENTS Hydro-Fracking Day of Action What do You Know About Hydraulic Fracturing? Catskill Citizens has prepared a brochure for people who’ve never heard of fracking. It has already been sent to every household in Delaware, Sullivan and Ulster counties. If you’d like to partner with us in sending this to residents in other counties, contact [email protected]  CLICK HERE to Learn More! New Items in Learn More
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Please donate to Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy by clicking on the button below. WellWatch is a web site that allows citizens to better cope with natural gas facilities on their properties or in their communities. It allows them to find out information about companies or wells, and to record notes or complaints about facilities and enter them into the public record. EPA Tip LineReport suspicious drilling activities If you see suspicious activity, such as possibly unauthorized water withdrawals, illegal wastewater dumping, or other questionable activity, call the EPA’s Eyes on Drilling line at 1-877-919-4372 (toll free), or send a message to [email protected]. If an emergency is observed related to a well drilling operation, call the National Response Center at 1-800-424-8802. NY DEC Tip LineIn New York State you can also contact the DEC at http://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/67751.html.
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Welcome to Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy is an all volunteer grassroots organization working to prohibit dangerous hydraulic fracturing (fracking) since 2008.
FRACK TALK: THE MARCELLUS SHALE WATER PROJECT Latest NewsJan 12, 2012Moravia residents pack forum on fracking Auburn Pub MORAVIA — Nothing seems to draw a town together like hydrofracking. And with nearly 200 people present at its Wednesday event, Moravia’s town forum on fracking was no exception. Before the 7 p.m. meeting started, cars crowded into the Moravia Volunteer Fire Company’s parking lot, filling every g… [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sidesteps Natural Gas Hydrofracking Controversies DC Bureau Peter Mantius ALBANY, N.Y. — Ignoring taunts from anti-hydrofracking protestors marching outside, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered a nearly hour-long State of the State address to lawmakers Jan. 4 without mentioning the hot-button gas drilling technique. In his speech, the governor skipped over a section o… [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 Draft SGEIS Comments from American Lung Association American Lung Association Jeffrey Seyler CEO Dear Commissioner Martens: The American Lung Association in New York is pleased to offer comments on the Revised Draft of the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement On The Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program in New York (dSGEIS). We urge the New York State Department of Env… [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 A Deadline for Fracking Comments The New York Times MIREYA NAVARRO As if the recent series of hearings and the invitation for written comments from the public were not enough, contingents from both sides of the fracking issue in New York State organized rallies and press conferences this week in anticipation of the close of the comment period on the state’s propose… [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 Both sides of natural gas debate agree: DEC’s fracking review is flawed Press Connects Jon Campbell ALBANY — A top gas-industry trade group and environmental lobbyists on Wednesday offered biting criticism of the state’s review of hydraulic fracturing, as a four-month public comment period came to a close at midnight. The Department of Environmental Conservation was bombarded Wednesday with hu… [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 Polamalu’s Gasland Post Leads To Facebook Frenzy NPR- State Impact Scott Detrow Steelers safety Troy Polamalu recently learned what we here at StateImpact have known for a long time: the issue of natural gas drilling sparks passionate debate. The Post-Gazette recounts what happened last month, when Polamalu listed the anti-fracking documentary “Gasland” as one of … [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 7 charged with corruption over shale gas in Poland The Intelligencer Associated Press Seven people, including government officials, have been charged with corruption during the granting of licenses for shale gas exploration in Poland, a spokesman for prosecutors said Wednesday. Waldemar Tyl of the Warsaw Appeals Prosecutor’s Office, who announced the charges, said bribes of tens o… [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 Shale Gas Bubble: Bloomberg News Confirms NY Times Finding That Fracking Boom Is a Bust DeSmogBlog Brendan DeMelle As news outlets across America take a more rigorous look at shale gas and fracking issues, it’s encouraging to see how the media coverage is finally starting to cut through the oil industry’s misleading rhetoric to explore the realities of the myth of gas as a viable ‘bridge fuel.’ The gas indust… [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 A Mining Law Whose Time Has Passed New York Times ROBERT M. HUGHES and CAROL ANN WOODY IN 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a mining law to spur the development of the West by giving hard-rock mining precedence over other uses of federal land. But the law has long since outlived its purpose, and its environmental consequences have been severe. Mining claims for copper, gold, … [Full Story] Jan 11, 2012 Super fracking goes deeper to pump up production Fuel Fix As regulators and environmentalists study whether hydraulic fracturing can damage the environment, industry scientists are studying ways to create longer, deeper cracks in the earth to release more oil and natural gas. Energy companies are focused on boosting production and lowering costs associ… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Gas drilling linked to health problems News Com.au EXPOSURE to gas drilling operations is strongly linked to serious health problems in humans, pets, livestock and other animals, a new US study has found. Australian environmentalists say the study shows the need for caution in opening the country up to coal seam gas (CSG) extraction. Unive… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Drilling Critics Face a Divide Over the Goal of Their Fight The New York Times Peter Applebome With a deadline looming this week for the public to weigh in on gas drilling in New York State, the antifracking movement itself has become divided over what its goal should be: securing the nation’s toughest regulations, or winning an outright ban? The question is pitting brand-name organizatio… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Study needed on shale gas effects on health: group Yahoo! News Ayesha Rascoe, Reuters ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) – The public health effects of shale gas development need to be rigorously studied as production rapidly spreads in the United States, public health professionals and advocates said on Monday. Advances in the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, drilling technique have… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 One More Day to Act: Gas Drilling May Begin in New York Soon Alternet Sabrina Artel Drilling could start as soon as this spring in New York State. Wednesday, January 11 is the deadline for public comments to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on the draft of the SGEIS that would provide the guidelines for industrial gas drilling and fracking throughout the state. Dr… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Environmental Coalition Concludes New York State DEC’s Fracking Proposal Too Fatally Flawed to Move Forward Common Dreams Press Release WASHINGTON – January 10 – Catskill Mountainkeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Riverkeeper, Inc. announced today that, after extensive evaluation and technical expert review, they have concluded that the state must go back and revisit sig… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 DEP head calls EPA knowledge of Dimock ‘rudimentary’ The Times Tribune Laura Legere Federal regulators have only a “rudimentary” understanding of the facts and history of gas drilling’s impact on water supplies in Dimock Twp., Pennsylvania’s head environmental regulator wrote in a letter Thursday as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considered beginning its own sampling of… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Dimock, Pennsylvania Fracking Rollercoaster Continues As Health Experts Push EPA Huffington Post Joanna Zelman Dimock, Pennsylvania residents may be on the least fun roller-coaster ride ever. For nearly three years, 11 families with tainted water wells in the small town received daily deliveries of bulk and bottled water from Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. The natural gas company began arranging for the water… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Polamalu praises ‘Gasland’ on Facebook, sets off fractious debate Pittsburgh Post Gazette Erich Schwartzel Troy Polamalu learned last month that there are topics even more controversial than the defense’s performance in Sunday night’s playoff game against the Denver Broncos. The Steelers strong safety maintains a popular Twitter and Facebook account that sends out movie recommendations every week, i… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Methane found in More PA Wells Marcellus Effect Blog This past August methane was found in three private water wells in Lenox Township, located about 10 miles east of Dimock, PA. Investigators from the PA Department of Environmental Protection determined that the gas migrated from a flawed well drilled by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. Local news repo… [Full Story] Jan 10, 2012 Missing from the Table: Role of the Environmental Public Health Community in Governmental Advisory Commissions Related to Marcellus Shale Drilling Environmental Health Perspectives Bernard D. Goldstein, Jill Kriesky, Barbara Pavliakova Objectives: We review the extent to which advisory committees formed in 2011 by the US Department of Energy and the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania contain individuals with expertise pertinent to human environmental public health. We also analyze the extent to which human health issues are of co… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Hinchey Urges Withdrawal of dSGEIS Press Release Maurice Hinchey Congressman Lists 10 Problems with Regulations Washington, DC – Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to withdraw the revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) on high-volume horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in the Marcel… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Fracking Moratorium Urged as Doctors Call for Health Study Bloomberg Alex Wayne Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. should declare a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in populated areas until the health effects are better understood, doctors said at a conference on the drilling process. Gas producers should set up a foundation to finance studies on fracking and i… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Fracking and the menace of methane INDY Lisa Sorg If anyone in the General Assembly listened to the scientists at the hydraulic fracturing workshop at Duke University today, then any pro-fracking legislation should be dead in North Carolina. That’s not a given: Last week, the GOP-led majority threatened a midnight override to Gov. Perdue’s veto of … [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Fracking visualized in maps Livingston County News Howard W. Appell Recently-graduated SUNY Geneseo geography major Ben Wunder’s interest in hydrofracking can probably be attributed to a gas well behind his Owego home. Horizontal drilling was undertaken there, although this was not a hydrofracking well and did not penetrate the Marcellus shale layer. Still, th… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 More Than 50 New Jersey Groups Urge Override of Christie Fracking Veto New evidence of water contamination renews call for ban on fracking Patch.com A broad coalition of more than 50 environmental, faith, labor, student and consumer organizations representing hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents renewed their call for a ban on fracking in New Jersey by submitting a letter to New Jersey Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney asking him to h… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Opponents of fracking want full disclosure Times Live Treasure the Karoo Action Group will apply to the Pretoria High Court today for an order compelling Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu to reveal more about the team she set up last year to assess hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). Save & Share Email Print … [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 18,000 weigh in on fracking Deadline nears for comments on proposed DEC regulations Corning Leader Derrick Ek Corning, N.Y. — The state Department of Environ-mental Conservation has received 18,100 written comments so far on the latest draft of its new regulations for shale gas drilling, DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis said Thursday. The comment period began in early September and will close Wednes… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Hinchey urges governor to can DSGEIS on fracking Mid-Hudson News WASHINGTON – Congressman Maurice Hinchey Monday urged Governor Cuomo to withdraw the revised draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement on hydro-fracking in the Marcellus Shale and other areas in the state. Hinchey, like many environmental groups, believes the document does not go … [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Doctors urge moratorium on “fracking” Star-Telegram The U.S. should declare a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (aka “fracking”) of natural gas in populated areas until the health effects are better understood, doctors said at a conference on the well-completion process used to stimulate natural gas and oil production. [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 EnCana asks EPA to ‘suspend’ comment period on Pavillion fracking report WyoFile EnCana Oil & Gas USA has asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research & Development to “suspend” the current public comment period on EPA Region 8’s “Pavillion Report,” which was released to the public on December 8 and implicated hydraulic fracturing as a likely contributor to con… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Fracking, Keystone XL, Mountaintop Removal and More Fracks in the Foundation Counter Punch Stephanie Penn Spear On Jan. 10 at 1 p.m. on the west lawn of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, concerned citizens from all over the state will gather to ask Gov. Kasich to impose an indefinite moratorium on Ohio’s oil and gas wastewater injection well sites and the natural gas extraction process that has become we… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Derry screening for Sundance-awarded fracking documentary Derry Journal Derry’s Nerve Centre will screen a free showing of the Sundance award-winning documentary film ‘Gasland’ this coming Thursday, January 12, at 7pm. The film, which won the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize, explores the culture of “fracking”, which has become a growing concern in Ir… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Experts: Earthquakes are tied to natural gas drilling Power Engineering Geological experts say earthquakes in Ohio and Oklahoma are directly tied to deep wells used to dispose of liquid wastes for hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, of natural gas. The experts also said they expect more earthquakes to occur as drilling expands across the U.S., according to MSN… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 DEP: Cabot drilling caused methane in Lenox water wells Scranton Times-Tribune Laura Legere Methane in three private water wells in Lenox Twp. seeped there from a flawed natural gas well drilled by Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., state environmental regulators have found. An investigation by the Department of Environmental Protection determined that the gas migrated from at least one of three M… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Federal Water Tap, January 9: The EPA and Natural Gas Circle of Blue EPA in Court Landowner rights and government power are in the docket Monday. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, a case that stems from an EPA determination that an Idaho couple was building their home in a wetland. The agency ordered the Sacke… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Report: Pa. data missing nearly 500 gas wells Press Connects PITTSBURGH (AP) – Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection undercounted the number of wells producing gas from the Marcellus Shale, frustrating industry, environmental groups, and elected officials, according to a newspaper report. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that an analysi… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 HEALTH EXPERTS URGE HALT TO HYDRO FRACKING EXPANSION UNTIL NEEDED RESEARCH IS DONE INTO HEALTH IMPACTS Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy Press Release Industry Called Upon to Set Up Foundation to Conduct Needed, Independent Research WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 9, 2012 – Leading U.S. medical experts urged today that the rapid expansion of unconventional natural gas drilling (known as “hydro fracking”) for natural gas extraction be paused so … [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 EPA Still Evaluating Whether To Send Water To Dimock NPR- State Impact Scott Detrow A spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency tells WHYY’s Newsworks the EPA has “not made a decision” on whether or not to deliver water to residents of Dimock, Susquehanna County, whose water wells have been impacted by methane migration. “We’re evaluating next steps includi… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 U.S. Shale Bubble Inflates After Near-Record Prices for Untested Fields Bloomberg Joe Carroll and Jim Polson Surging prices for oil and natural- gas shales, in at least one case rising 10-fold in five weeks, are raising concern of a bubble as valuations of drilling acreage approach the peak set before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chinese, French and Japanese energy explorers committed … [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Methane found in More PA Wells citizensvoice .com Laura Legere Methane in three private water wells in Lenox Township seeped there from a flawed natural gas well drilled by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., state environmental regulators have found. An investigation by the Department of Environmental Protection determined that the gas migrated from at least one of th… [Full Story] Jan 9, 2012 Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes AlterNet Scott Thill To what should be the surprise of no one, earthquakes caused by the junkie gas sector’s hydraulic fracturing process, known as fracking, have been cropping up like Freud’s repressed. The latest ominously arrived in Republican-dominated Ohio on New Year’s Eve, quickly prompting Youngstown’s mayor to … [Full Story] Jan 8, 2012 Idaho to get new natural gas player: Bridge Resources is supposed to close on its sale this week, but questions remain about what the buyer will get. Idaho Stateman Rocky Barker A year ago, an executive from Bridge Resources Corp. said that in 2011 natural gas could be flowing from its wells into the Williams Pipeline. This week, the company that discovered commercial quantities of natural gas in Idaho is expected to sell off its assets near New Plymouth — and that gas i… [Full Story] More News from Environmental Health News |
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By any measure, 2011 was a year of real progress in New York State. The tireless works of thousands of fractivists resulted in an unprecedented degree of public awareness and vastly expanded news coverage. A recent Time Magazine article hailed Tony Ingraffea, Bob Howarth and Mark Ruffalo as “People Who Mattered”, and called fracking the “biggest environmental issue” of the year.