Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
“Quite frankly, the citizens of this state are being played for chumps." So said John Quigley, Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources for Pennsylvania at a Marcellus Shale Policy Conference sponsored over the past two days by Duquesne University...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
Following many months of intense pressure by environmental groups, elected officials and individual NYC residents, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation announced today that it was effectively removing the NYC and Syracuse drinking watersheds from controversial natural gas drilling in...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably
OK, it's not quite Earth Day. But today was the official Earth Day Lobby Day in Albany, and - after much anticipation - the Senate passed an electronic waste (e-waste) recycling bill by a unanimous 61-0 vote! And not just...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
I've been blogging a lot about Marcellus gas drilling in Pennsylvania this week, because (as has frankly been the case for more than a year now) you can't turn around without running into another company in trouble for causing problems. ...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
“I feel like God is just looking down and everything Cabot tries, He just messes with them.” Or such is my attempt at paraphrasing Dimock, PA resident, Pat Farnelli, as – standing in her backyard and pointing out the natural...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
Like so many who have been following controversial gas drilling issues in the Northeast’s Marcellus Shale region (the geological formation that stretches from West Virginia to upstate New York), I have been hearing and reading about, and seeing images of,...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
All those concerned about the threats posed by expanded natural gas production in New York's Marcellus Shale should attend this important event being hosted by Cooper Union and featuring a slate of top experts TOMORROW. The fantastic documentary "Split Estate" is...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
NRDC and its ally, Catskill Mountainkeeper, have begun running a new series of ads in upstate communities potentially affected by proposed industrial gas drilling in New York’s Marcellus Shale. You can listen to them here. We’ll be following up with...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
Just after the opportunity for public comment on proposed natural gas fracking in New York's Marcellus Shale formation closed last week - it will be hard for the Governor to ignore the big, united coalition of environmentalists and legislators (hailing...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
Two days ago, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin reported on escalating calls across New York State for Governor Paterson to order the state Department of Environmental Conservation to scrap its draft environmental study of controversial new drilling techniques (horizontal...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
First, some good news. Responding to the calls of concerned folks across the state, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation yesterday extended the public comment period until December 31 on its draft environmental impact statement for natural gas drilling in...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
I wrote yesterday about the inadequacy of Chesapeake's decision not to exercise its right to drill in NYC's watershed and the need for the state to impose an across-the-board ban on drilling in that most precious resource. Today a New...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
Yesterday evening, Chesapeake Energy Corp. quietly leaked the news that it would not develop the leases it has purchased for natural gas exploration in the New York City watershed - which supplies clean, unfiltered drinking water to 9 million New...
