High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Proposed Regulations – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Proposed Regulations – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation.  2012

Cornell Debate Walter Hang, Professors Robert Howarth and Bill Podulka

debate at Cornell … Walter Hang, Professors Robert Howarth and Bill Podulka were exceptionally informative. Nancy Schmidt, Tom Shepstone and John Holko were typically industry: always diversionary, evasive, irrelevant or downright dishonest and often unintentionally comic. Check it out. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/27050225

Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells – Bloomberg

Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells – Bloomberg.

Clear earth, air, water ’round here–CD

Clear earth, air, water ’round here. (More information)

The Benefit enviro CD “Singing Clear: Clean earth, air, water ‘round here” is here! It is a compilation CD addressing issues of hydrofracking, mountaintop removal, the oil and gas industry with songs for a clean planet and sustainable energy. The compilation features excellent songs donated by artists including The Horse Flies, Driftwood, Marie Burns (of the Burns Sisters), emma’s revolution, Colleen Kattau and Some Guys, Aro Veno, Bev Grant, and Thousands of One, and includes a moving statement by acclaimed environmental activist and author, Sandra Steingraber excerpted from her Heinz award acceptance speech.

The CD benefits the work of GDACC, Shaleshock, NOON (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation), Friends of Blair Mountain, and other groups working for a clean planet. Mastered beautifully by Jocko Randall of More Sound Studio and with the fresh and clear art work of Felicity Frisbie, the songs, mastering and artwork flow effortlessly to create an album of unity in diversity – as if the arts could shift the course of energy policy. (Purchase Information)

New economic study: fracking risks reduce value of properties dependent on groundwater | Amy Mall’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

New economic study: fracking risks reduce value of properties dependent on groundwater | Amy Mall’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC.

Brian Dykstra Selling Out

Brian Dykstra Selling Out.

Brian’s currently up from NYC doing an amazing one-man performance/slam poetry show called “Selling Out”. At the Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, now through December 16. See it!!

Big Slick
by Brian Dykstra
from Brian Dykstra SELLING OUT

You call me the engine of commerce
You call to me in Religious Rapture
You call out, shouting in tongues, in Reverence, in Prayer
Another Great Hosanna!
“Drill, Baby, Drill!” you pray.
Something worth listening to!
“Drill, Baby, Drill!”
You thrill to the thrills I spill while shilling
For OPEC – Oil rich, Nouveau Riche, Oil Sheiks finding petro-dollars in sand
Funding Times Square car bombers filled with gasoline, propane,
combustible oil on a bustable brain pan.
I Am
Sticky-chewy chocolate colored stick ‘em gluing an osprey’s suddenly
useless feathers
I Am Slick
Geyser-ing 5000 feet down, another half-million barrels in another Gulf –
coastal wetlands torpedoed from under another suddenly Black Sea.
Another suddenly Dead Sea.
I Am Beyond Petroleum
You can call me the engine of commerce
You can call me Big Slick.
“Drill, Baby, Drill” you pray
While I Am Free at last (Free at last) to Spill, Baby, Kill, Baby, Kill a billion
dollar fishery, thrill killing.
Bottoming out the bottom of the food chain as I walk on water, dividing
not loaves this time but droves of fishes.
Jail broke out steep tectonic plates 5000 feet deep, or fracked like black
shale, or hard sand, sand-blasted out tar sands pipelined out, or blowed out
fasta’ from under Alaska snow searched out like the Holy Grail by my
disciples failure to see beyond oily profit.
I baptize this oiled well, this foiled wilderness, this roiled Gulf, this soiled
beach with boiled Holy Water over pelican chicks, anointing their heads
with oil
My Cup Runneth Over.
Onward Crisco Soldiers marching (as to war)
I Am That I Am
The new burning bush
Burning at the top of another nighttime refinery – another Fire! Another
gothic cathedral, another beacon lending sight to acolytes spending millions
to search out my billions.
I Am the patron saint of economic growth
I Am gasoline in your well water
Another polluted aquifer
I Am seven rivers around Beijing so viscous they are Un-Filterable
I Am next years missing tarpon and mutated shellfish.
I Am Fracked Gas Fracking up this fracking shit by fracking your water table
and clearly nudging us nearer to another earthquake, a tectonic mistake, a
shake that just can’t happen here.
I Am Dead Sea Scrolls announcing Dead Sea Turtles
Taking tolls on dying dolphins, untold schools, nesting birds, oyster beds,
hatcheries, sanctuaries, and already weakened wetlands already battered by
last year’s hurricanes.
I Am ecological disaster happily traded to stave off economic disaster
And I demand you pray
“Drill, Baby, Drill!”
Lord, hear your prayer
“Drill, Baby, Drill for me.”
Open up more offshore “Drill, Baby, Drill!”
I Am greasing the engine, oiling the pistons, of a slippery global economy
I reduce friction in your stock portfolio – while together we carbonize your
atmosphere and do nothing about it but wait for science to come up with
some creative solution while together we demonize not only science, but
creativity.
You call me the engine of commerce
But I am unsatisfied
“Drill, Baby, Drill” you pray
I Am the Patron Saint of Global Climate Disaster
And you will all worship me
So, “Drill, Baby, Drill.”

Fracking Our Food Supply | The Nation

Fracking Our Food Supply | The Nation.

Otsego Community Advocacy

Otsego Community Advocacy.

Debate at SU on Hydrofracking 11/30/12

NEW CAMPBELL DEBATE ON HYDROFRACKING
November 30, 7:00-8:30 p.m., Maxwell Auditorium, Syracuse University
“This Assembly Believes Hydrofracking Does More Harm Than Good.”
That is the proposition to be argued in the next Campbell Debate,  on Friday, November 30, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Maxwell Auditorium on the Syracuse University campus.  Members of the Central New York  community are warmly invited to this free event.
Given the intense attention that this issue has generated, it needs little introduction, and indeed, it has been debated before.  But in  sponsoring this debate, the Campbell Institute is hoping to add some  additional light to the considerable heat the issue has produced thus far.
Speaking in favor of the proposition are Paul Gallay, President,  Hudson Riverkeeper, and Robert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor  of Ecology and Environmental Biology at Cornell University.
Speaking against the proposition are Edward Hinchey, Principal Consultant, ERM Group, and Tim Whitesell, Supervisor, Town of Binghamton, and President, New York Association of Towns.
The debate will provide opportunities for lively direct exchange  among the speakers, as well as questions and brief points from the  audience.  The audience will register its views on the issue both before and after the event.
There will be a public reception following the debate, and parking  is available for a reduced rate in the Irving Garage on the Syracuse  University campus.
Grant Reeher Director, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Professor of Political Science
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs 313 Eggers Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 Tel.  315-443-5046 FAX  315-443-9082 gdreeher@maxwell.syr.edu
Host of “The Campbell Conversations” on WRVO – 6:30 p.m. on Fridays and 4 p.m. Saturdays — http://www.wrvo.fm/programs/campbell-conversations-wrvo-1-npr-news

Pa. company proposed 75-mile natural gas pipe line through Broome, Chenango counties | Press & Sun-Bulletin | pressconnects.com

Pa. company proposed 75-mile natural gas pipe line through Broome, Chenango counties | Press & Sun-Bulletin | pressconnects.com.