October 21, 2011

Model Ordinance Amending a Municipal Zoning Ordinance: Gas And Oil Well Sites

JORDAN YEAGER & VINCENT J. MAGYAR, JR., CURTIN AND HEEFNER LLP

This Model Ordinance was written to assist towns and municipalities in crafting their local zoning ordinances with the correct legal language and information on Pennsylvania local law pertaining to …

October 20, 2011

The Fracking Industry's War on the Truth

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Reader Supported News

The fracking industry’s war on The New York Times – and the truth.

uperb investigative journalism by the New York Times has brought the paper under attack by the natural gas industry. …

October 19, 2011

Rush to Drill for Natural Gas Creates Conflicts With Mortgages

By Ian Urbina, New York Times

As natural gas drilling has spread across the country, energy industry representatives have sat down at kitchen tables in states like Texas, Pennsylvania and New York to offer homeowners leases that give companies the …

October 17, 2011

Submit Your SGEIS / Regulations / NPEDES Comments

Concerned about gas drilling in New York State? — Submit your comments on the SGEIS

The hearings — “unofficial” and “official” — are over (over 6,000 people attended and as many spoke as time allowed — GOOD WORK!). So now …

October 15, 2011

NYC and NYS Are Nearly 7 Miles Apart on Protecting Water Supply

Daily News

Why the State of New York is completely ignoring the Hazen and Sawyer report on this issue is just another fracking mystery.The final NYC DEP report was released 12/23 stating that 6,000 gas wells in the city’s watershed …

October 15, 2011

Comments on Proposed DEC Regulations Marcellus Shale Development

Marvin Resnikoff, Ph.D.
Radioactive Waste Management Associates
October 2011

These comments on the proposed DEC regulations on Marcellus Shale Development pertain primarily to health and safety issues. Since the previous GEIS1, DEC has examined the regulatory experience in other states …

October 15, 2011

Drilling, Earthquakes, and Motley Fools

Fort Worth Citizens Against Neighborhood Drilling Ordinance (FWCanDo)
CanDo Blogs

From the, “What-is-this-world-coming-to” Department…
The Fort Worth City Council will soon decide if allowing earthquakes inside the city limits is OK. I’ve lost track of the number of earthquakes that …

October 14, 2011

SGEIS Commenting – page 2 / Hearing Schedule

PAGE TWO


Each meeting location will be open from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Date: November 16, 2011
Location: Dansville Middle School Auditorium
31 Clara Barton Street
Dansville, NY 14437

Date: November 17, 2011

October 14, 2011

SGEIS Commenting – page 3

PAGE THREE

In case both the SGEIS and the regs weren’t enough to cover in one meeting, they’re also including the SPDES general permit for stormwater runoff.

ENB – Statewide Notices 9/28/2011

Public Notice

Combined Notice of Public Hearings on …

October 14, 2011

SGEIS Submission Page

Governor Cuomo and NYSDEC require us to submit our comments via a postal service or through their online submission forms. They will not accept SGEIS comments from your personal email account or to the email address they have in the …

October 6, 2011

Overestimation of benefits from shale gas drilling and underestimation of its historic costs

Ronald E. Bishop, PhD., C.H.O.

Remarks to NYS Assembly Committee and hearing on the revised dSGEIS. October 2011

Assemblyman Sweeney, other distinguished legislators and guests, I want to thank you for this opportunity to comment on our Department of Environmental …

October 5, 2011

Medical Experts Send Letter to Governor Cuomo

More than 250 medical experts, along with the Medical Societies of at least seven upstate counties and the regional office of the American Academy of Pediatricians, warned Governor Cuomo that New York State has failed to analyze public health impacts …

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