Marcellus Watch: Drillers go for broke in appeal of bans – News – The Leader – Corning, NY
September 4, 2013
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The little town that took on fracking and big oil
August 18, 2013
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The little town that took on fracking and big oil
In 2011, rural Dryden, in upstate New York, banned hydraulic fracking, prompting an oil corporation which had spent millions of dollars buying up leases in Dryden, from private home and farm owners, to sue. The energy company wanted the court to force the town to accept industrial gas drilling including fracking, within town limits. Not only did the town fight back, it garnered the support of 20,000 people to support them in their fight. But the battle is not over. The panelists discuss.
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Municipal Law and Planning: A Local Perspective on Hydrofracking
August 18, 2013
Municipal Law and Planning: A Local Perspective on Hydrofracking
Held on September 28, 2012, this program provided guidance on how municipal officials can use their local land use tools to effectively plan for the potential introduction of high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in their communities. Panels discussed state regulation of HVHF, water withdrawal concerns, preemption and home rule litigation, effective land use controls, municipal ethics, and opportunities for training. The panels included practicing attorneys, planners, academics and scholars.
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Explanations below.
Municipal Law & Planning: A Local Perspective on Hydrofracking – Panel 1
from Government Law Center2 days ago
Current Status of HVHF and Water Withdrawal Issues
Moderator: Michael Bogin, Esq., Sive, Paget & Riesel
Panelists: Mark Boling, Esq., V+ Development Solutions, Southwestern Energy
Daniel Raichel, Esq., Project Attorney, NRDC
Brian G. Rahm, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Associate, NYS Water Resources Institute
Municipal Law and Planning: A Local Perspective on Hydrofracking – Panels Two and Three
from Government Law Center2 days ago
Panel Two: Responding to HVHF: Municipal Ethics
Moderator: Mike Kenneally, Esq., Association of Towns
Panelists: Richard Rifkin, Esq., New York State Bar Association
Stephen Leventhal, Esq., Leventhal, Cursio, Mullaney & Sliney LLP
Panel Three: SEQRA and HVHF
Moderator: Charles Gottlieb, Esq., Government Law Center of Albany Law School
Panelist: Chris Amato, Esq., Sive, Paget & Riesel
Municipal Law and Planning: A Local Perspective on Hydrofracking – Panel Four
from Government Law Center2 days ago
Responding to HVHF: Legal Considerations
Moderator: Tom Wilber, Author, “Under the Surface, Fracking Fortunes and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale”
Panelists: Tom West, Esq., The West Firm
Steven Barshov, Esq., Sive, Paget & Riesel
Helen Slottje, Esq., Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc.
Municipal Law & Planning: A Local Perspective on Hydrofracking – Panels Five and Six
from Government Law Center2 days ago
Panel Five: Responding to HVHF: Effective Local Planning Tools
Moderator: Chip Northrup
Panelists: Krys Cail, Consultant, Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship
Nan Stolzenburg, AICP, Community Planning & Environmental Associates
Ted Fink, AICP, Green Plan, Inc.
Panel Six: Responding to HVHF: Municipal Training
Panelists: Rod Howe, Cornell Cooperative Extension; Community and Regional Development Institute
David Kay, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Community and Regional Development Institute
Robert Ross, Ph.D, Paleontological Research Institute
Painted Post Water Export Case and Hydrological Concerns
May 9, 2013
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Painted Post Water Export Case and Hydrological Concerns
PowerPoint presentation to Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County, May 5, 2017 by Todd Miller, Ph.D., USGS emeritus
EU-Canada trade agreement threatens fracking bans
May 7, 2013
EU-Canada trade agreement threatens fracking bans.
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Folks,
Please read the info on the EU-Canada agreement below. I know trade agreements don’t look very sexy, but if passed, they’ll have a HUGE impact on our lives. Take a look at the SClub Fact Sheet here which highlights the TPP’s fracking aspect http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/downloads/TPP-LNG%20Factsheet%20FINAL.pdf
Relevant excerpt:
The TPP may allow for significantly increased exports of liquefied natural gas without the careful study or adequate protections necessary to safeguard the American public. This could mean an increase of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking…. It would also likely cause an increase in natural gas and electricity prices, impacting consumers, manufacturers, workers, and increasing the use of dirty coal power.
And that’s just for starters: the TPP would violate U.S. sovereignty by subjecting our environmental regs to regulation by foreign tribunals.
Relevant excerpt:
To date, corporations such as Exxon Mobil and Dow Chemical have launched more than 450 cases against 89 governments. Nearly $675 million has been paid to corporations under U.S. FTAs and bilateral investment treaties, with about 70% of money going to oil, gas, and mining industries.
This is a BIG deal, especially since Japan just joined the 11 countries already negotiating the texts. The TPP would cover 40% of all global trade, and it wouldn’t be to anyone’s advantage but the 600 transnational corporations that have access to the negotiations, as opposed to the public, the press and Congress!
We need to get informed, get active, make sure our congressional reps get hold of the agreed-on texts, share them with us, and pledge to vote against Fast Track, thus allowing Congress to keep its constitutionally assigned right to discuss and amend trade agreements.
Attend the Tuesday, May 28th, 6:30 PM, event described in the attached SAVE THE DATE, sponsored by Sierra Club and All Souls Unitarian Church in NYC to find out more and GET INVOLVED.
Thanks!
Stephanie
NORSE ENERGY CORP. USA, Petitioner-Plaintiff-Appellant -against- TOWN OF DRYDEN AND TOWN OF DRYDEN TOWN BOARD, Respondents-Defendants-Respondents
March 16, 2013
48. Respondents’ Brief 12-20-12
To be argued by: Deborah Goldberg
Time Requested: 20 minutes
Appellate Division Case No. 515227
New York Supreme Court
Appellate Division – Third Department
NORSE ENERGY CORP. USA,
Petitioner-Plaintiff-Appellant
-against-
TOWN OF DRYDEN AND TOWN OF DRYDEN TOWN BOARD,
Respondents-Defendants-Respondents
-and-
DRYDEN RESOURCES AWARENESS COALITION, by its President, Marie McRae,
Proposed Intervenor-Cross-Appellant
Tompkins County Index. No. 2011-0902
BRIEF OF RESPONDENTS-DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS TOWN OF DRYDEN AND TOWN OF DRYDEN TOWN BOARD
EARTHJUSTICE Deborah Goldberg Bridget Lee
156 William Street, Suite 800
New York, NY 10038-5326
212-845-7376
Dated: December 20, 2012
Attorneys for Respondents-Defendants- Respondents Town of Dryden and Town of Dryden Town Board
Plans, Reports and Studies–Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board
January 28, 2013
Plans, Reports and Studies. Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board
Marcellus Shale Report, October 2010
Report (3.49 MB)Is your moratorium valid? Talk of the Towns article Dec. 2012
December 15, 2012
Is your moratorium valid? Talk of the Towns article Dec. 2012
This is accurate and had been carefully reviewed before it was finalized. It is also good that this is going to towns, as the land owner associations have been lying about it. I hope it is not too technical The important disctinctions about the Binghamton facts were that their law was not a zoning law and every other moritorium and ban I have seen is zoning.
So, this “dire necessity” test [which I feel was not the proper one and that is part of the appeal] does not apply to zoning bans. Joe Heath, Esq.
GDACC 
