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July 13, 2012
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Elected Officials to Protect New York
June 5, 2012
Elected Officials to Protect New York
Press Release:
Tompkins Officials Among More Than 250 Across the State Urging Governor to Require More Study Before Hydrofracking Moratorium is Lifted
(Released June 4, 2012 at 7:41 PM.)
More than 280 municipal leaders from across New York State—including more than 50 from Tompkins County—have signed a non-partisan letter to Governor Cuomo, urging the Governor to maintain the State’s current moratorium on hydrofracking until potential health, economic, and cumulative environmental impacts on local communities from such drilling are properly addressed. Those signing the letter to the Governor include representatives of cities, towns, villages, and county governments, including 12 members of the Tompkins County Legislature.
Leaders launched the “Elected Officials to Protect New York” initiative at a news conference this afternoon in Albany. Among those speaking was County Legislature Chair Martha Robertson. At the event, it was reported that the letter had been signed by at least 282 officials from 34 of the State’s counties.
The letter to the Governor urges that high-volume hydraulic fracturing not be permitted until the following independent assessments have been completed:
– A comprehensive health impact assessment of the entire shale gas extraction process—including, but not limited to, direct and indirect health effects and cumulative health impacts;
– A revised and thorough analysis that considers all potentially negative socioeconomic impacts—including, but not limited to, increased demands on local governments, first responders and law enforcement, and the effects of drilling on property values and home mortgages, existing businesses and economies, and local community character;
– A revised and properly thorough study of cumulative environmental impacts—including, but not limited to, those affecting the rural landscape, water resources, air quality, and greenhouse gas emissions, and the lack of safe alternatives for wastewater disposal.
The letter calls for all studies to be made available for public review and comment before regulations are finalized or the moratorium is lifted.
“As elected officials from across New York State, we share with you the responsibility to protect and
defend our people and our state,” the letter states. “Although the geographic area where drilling may occur may be limited, the impacts will be felt across the state. Unless and until the facts and the science prove that horizontal hydraulic fracturing is safe, New York’s de facto moratorium must remain in place.”
Elected Officials to Protect New York will continue to collect signatures on the letter to Governor Cuomo, through its website at http://www.nyelectedofficials.org.
Contact: Martha Robertson, Chair of the Legislature, 607-274-5434 or 607-272-0584.
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Marcia E. Lynch
Public Information Officer
Tompkins County
125 E. Court Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Tel: 607-274-5555/Fax: 607-274-5558
Cortland County Elected Officials who signed on to the letter as of 6/5/12
Gregory K. Leach
Councilmember
Town of Cortlandville
Cortland County
John C. Proud
Councilmember
Town of Cortlandville
Cortland County
Theodore V. Testa
Councilmember
Town of Cortlandville
Cortland County
Kevin Whitney
Legislator
Cortland County
Kathie Arnold
Legislator
Cortland County
Richard C. Tupper
Councilmember
Town of Cortlandville
Cortland County
James Doring
Supervisor
Town of Preble
Cortland County
Ronald L. Rocco
Councilmember
Town of Cortlandville
Cortland County
Donald Spaulding
Legislator
Cortland County
Animated map of NY Industrialization Bans and Moratoria
May 23, 2012
Lansing resident Roger Hopkins just put together this nice animation of the ban and moratorium maps I’ve been updating for the past year. You can really see how the home rule movement (absent of a real statewide ban) has kicked in.
Seneca Lake Methane Storage Project 31097521420002
May 23, 2012
Inergy has applied for permits for stratigraphic test wells. What they’re doing is opening and preparing depleted salt caverns for Natural Gas Liquid storage (aka fracked gas and fracked gas derivatives like Liquefied Petroleum). Their plan is to be ready to store the glut of gas being produced from fracking as soon as the DEC accepts the EIS as final. This decision could come down any day now and we could become the fracked gas storage and transport capital of the USA.
More Commentary on the project
You can call up the DEC permit record by visiting this URL
http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/GasOil/search/wells/index.cfm
And entering either the API Well Number Equals (or Like) 31097521420002
or Operator Like Inergy
| API Well Number | Production Information | Formation Tops | Casing and Cementing | Hole Number | Well Name | Company Name | Well Type | Well Status | Objective Formation | Producing Formation | County | Town | Map Quadrangle | Quad Section Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31097521420002 View Map |
N/A | N/A | N/A | 52142 | Well 17 | Inergy Midstream, LLC | Confidential | Confidential | Confidential | Syracuse | Schuyler | Reading | Reading Center | F |
| Quad Section Code | Field | Status Date | Permit Application Date | Permit Issued Date | Spud/Start Drilling Date | Total Depth Date | Well Completion Date | Plugging & Abandonment Date | Confidential Expiration Date | Confid. Period Type | Subject to Financial Security | Well Orientation | NYSDEC Region | State Lease | Proposed Total Depth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | Confidential | 3/29/201 | 3/29/201 | 4/10/2012 | 10/12/2012 | Yes | 1 | Vertical | 8 | NA | 2800 |
| Proposed Total Depth | Surface Longitude | Surface Latitude | Bottom Hole Longitude | Bottom Hole Latitude | True Vertical Depth | Bottom Hole Total Measured Depth | Kickoff Depth | Drilled Depth | Proposed Well Type | Spacing | Spacing Acres | Integration | Hearing Date | Last Modified Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2800 | -76.896659 | 42.424476 | -76.896659 | 42.424476 | 2800 | 2800 | 0 | 2800 | Stratigraphic | Exempt – not an oil or gas well | 4/18/2012 |
We need help raising money for the legal battle that could stop this!!!! Make your tax deductible donation out to “Sustainable Markets Foundation” and put “Gas Free Seneca” in the memo line, mail to: Gas Free Seneca
P.O. Box 333
Watkins Glen NY 14891
or donate online at: www.gasfreeseneca.com
Yvonne Taylor
Co-Founder, Gas Free Seneca
CitizenGuide_Act13_2012.pdf
May 10, 2012
CitizenGuide_Act13_2012.pdf (application/pdf Object).
Citizens’ Guide to PA Act 13.
On February 7, 2012, the Pennsylvania General Assembly enacted comprehensive amendments to Pennsylvania laws regulating the oil and gas industry in response to the rapid growth of the Marcellus shale industry.
This guide provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the major provisions of that new law. The guide was created to inform and educate citizens, municipal leaders, media, and others about the details and expected impact of the new law. The guide is deliberately written to be as accessible as possible to all, primarily presented in a question and answer format. The questions are organized by topics and the numbers at the end of each answer refer to the Section numbers of Act 13.
PennFuture’s legal staff, led by President and CEO George Jugovic Jr, Law Staff Chair Brian Glass, and Staff Attorney Mark Szybist, are the primary authors of this guide. The guide would not have been possible without the volunteer research assistance of Attorney Renee E. Della Fave.
GDACC 
