Flawed NY Renews Bill: An Open Letter | Coalition to Protect New York
October 20, 2016
Source: Flawed NY Renews Bill: An Open Letter | Coalition to Protect New York
Judge Fails to Block Dakota Pipeline Construction After Burial Sites Destroyed | InsideClimate News
September 7, 2016
Protesters had called for an emergency injunction after the pipeline company worked over Labor Day weekend to bulldoze sites the Standing Rock Sioux consider sacred.
Source: Judge Fails to Block Dakota Pipeline Construction After Burial Sites Destroyed | InsideClimate News
Who Bears the Most Risk From Fracking? – The New York Times
May 31, 2016
Drilling companies are suspected of picking sites that disproportionately affect low-income and minority residents.
Source: Who Bears the Most Risk From Fracking? – The New York Times
WATER POLLUTION: Federal agency contradicts EPA on contamination in Dimock — Thursday, May 26, 2016 — www.eenews.net
May 27, 2016
When U.S. EPA ended its investigation of drilling and drinking water contamination in Dimock, Pa., the agency said the water was safe to drink. Now, another federal agency looking at the same data says it wasn’t safe.
TransCanada to Buy Columbia Pipeline Group in $10.2 Billion Deal – The New York Times
March 18, 2016
The all-cash deal will make the Canadian company a major force in the distribution of natural gas produced in the northeastern United States.
Source: TransCanada to Buy Columbia Pipeline Group in $10.2 Billion Deal – The New York Times
Oil Supply Picture Has Changed Since Keystone Was Proposed – The New York Times
November 9, 2015
Seven years ago, production in the United States was falling, some thought permanently, and Mexico’s industry was also in decline.
Source: Oil Supply Picture Has Changed Since Keystone Was Proposed – The New York Times
It’s official: New York has banned fracking – Politics on the Hudson
June 29, 2015
It’s official: New York has banned fracking – Politics on the Hudson.
Caveats——————-
No evidence that DEC is attemptng to limit the expansion of the gas industry-pipelines, compressors, gathering lines that it finds detrimental to the environment. This expansion proceeds unabated even without allowing high volume hydraulic fracturing.
In today’s official announcement of the ban on fracking in NYS by the DEC, there is also this passage, where the word “prohibit” is used:
“In the end, there are no feasible or prudent alternatives that would adequately avoid or minimize adverse environmental impacts and that address the scientific uncertainties and risks to public health from this activity. The Department’s chosen alternative to prohibit high-volume hydraulic fracturing is the best alternative based on the balance between protection of the environment and public health and economic and social considerations.”
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Ellen Pope <director@otsego2000.org> wrote:
There’s this, on p. 9 of the findings statement –
Ellen Pope
Executive Director
Otsego 2000, Inc.
PO Box 1130
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Tel: 607/547 8881
From: K. Shimberg [mailto:gkatmuse@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 3:30 PM
To: Ellen Pope
Cc: otsego-coalition@lists.riseup.net; Consternation PL; Protect Laurens
Subject: Re: [otsego-coalition] NYSDEC releases Findings Statement on Fracking
Thank you, Ellen! —
Yessss!! (For now, anyway.)
Does Cuomo make an official announcement now?
And thanks to the DEC and all the official & unofficial advisors w/ good science and good sense, and all the comment-&-letter-writers and rally organizers & attenders, bird-doggers, naggers, etc. — (all of us).
On to the 2 major interstate pipelines impending thru here awaiting DEC’s permitting or (we hope) denial, and bomb trains already travelling thru here as elsewhere, Seneca Lake unstable gas-storage caverns pending DEC final approval or reconsideration, PA’s HVHF waste trucked in to NYS landfills, and other adverse consequences still affecting NYS. And FERC continues to rubber-stamp industry requests w/ inadequate “mitigation,” and our POTUS and DOE keep pushing nat-gas development.
So — We’re encouraged and cheered by DEC’s/Martens’s issuance of these Final SGEIS findings, which nicely spell out the problems and reasons for “No Action” anywhere in NYS on permitting the dangerous dragon. But our work ain’t over!
— Kathy S.
Mt. Vision, NY 13810n
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Ellen Pope <director@otsego2000.org> wrote:
Hot off the presses.
Ellen Pope
Executive Director
Otsego 2000, Inc.
PO Box 1130
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Tel: 607/547 8881
GDACC 
