Animated map of NY Industrialization Bans and Moratoria

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

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
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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

Hydraulic fracturing: FracFocus can’t replace full, public disclosure, groups say — 05/21/2012 — www.eenews.net

Hydraulic fracturing: FracFocus can’t replace full, public disclosure, groups say — 05/21/2012 — www.eenews.net.

Pipeline Safety Trust–Integrity Management

Briefing_Paper10IM.pdf (application/pdf Object).

Pipeline Safety Trust–Integrity Management

Pipeline Safety Trust-Pipeline Safety New Voices Project

BriefingPaper11.pdf (application/pdf Object).

Cost/Benefit Analysis of Pipeline Safety

Gas Industry Aims to Block 2030 Zero-Carbon Building Goal | InsideClimate News

Gas Industry Aims to Block 2030 Zero-Carbon Building Goal | InsideClimate News.

Gas line ruptures in Woodhull, shuts down Route 417 – Corning, NY – The Corning Leader

Gas line ruptures in Woodhull, shuts down Route 417 – Corning, NY – The Corning Leader.

The Pig in the XL Pipeline Insider reveals concealed “error” in pipeline safety equipment that could blow away the GOP’s XL pipe dreamGreg Palast | Investigative Reporter

Greg Palast | Investigative Reporter.

The Pig in the XL Pipeline
Insider reveals concealed “error”
in pipeline safety equipment that could blow away the GOP’s XL pipe dream

Sunday, January 22, 2012

For Firedoglake

by Greg Palast

University At Buffalo’s Shale Resources And Society Institute’s ‘Environmental Impacts During Shale Gas Drilling’ Report

University At Buffalo’s Shale Resources And Society Institute’s ‘Environmental Impacts During Shale Gas Drilling’ Report.  Scott Anderson, Environmental Defense Fund. May 16, 2012.

UB Shale Institute in the News Over the Weekend | Artvoice Daily.

The Daily Mail > Archives > The Mountain Eagle > News > Residents Not Receptive To Proposed Gas Pipeline.

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Capitol Pressroom

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher joins me in the studio to discuss a variety of issues including her pick to run SUNY’s troubled Research Foundation which has been without a President since John O’Connor resigned under a cloud of scandal last year.  Zimpher has tapped the National Science Foundation’s Timothy Killeen to run almost 1 billion dollar academic research arm of SUNY.

June 1st, 2012 | Posted by WCNY Staff | No Comments

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher joins me in the studio to discuss a variety of issues including her pick to run SUNY’s troubled Research Foundation which has been without a President since John O’Connor resigned under a cloud of scandal last year.  Zimpher has tapped the National Science Foundation’s Timothy Killeen to run almost 1 billion dollar academic research arm of SUNY.

After Father’s Day, the House is expected to turn its attention to jobs and out-of-pocket expenses affected by domestic energy production.  Former NYS Acting DEC Commissioner Peter Iwanowicz, currently the Assistant Vice President for the American Lung Association fills us in on some of the legislation that may affect the Empire State.

And a new report conducted by the Survey Research Institute at Cornell University summarizes attitudes toward natural gas drilling in New York State, as assessed by the 2010, 2011
and 2012 Empire State Polls.   We will get details from the Director of the Survey Research Institute at Cornell, Yasamin Miller and Dr. Susan Christopherson, Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell. If you want to take a look at the results yourself, visit http://sri.cornell.edu/sri/files/esp/2012/Report%202%20-%202012%20-%20Natural%20Gas%20Drilling.pdf

Institute of Medicine-The Health Impact Assessment of New Energy Sources: Shale Gas Extraction

Welcome – Institute of Medicine.

The Health Impact Assessment of New Energy Sources: Shale Gas Extraction –video