Today is the last day to comment on the draft environmental imact statement that would allow for water fraccing of gas in the Marcellus Shale. Fracing would, imho, impact negatively (contaminate) the underground water resources, besides impacting air quality by the release of methane and particulate matter. I urge everyone to do some reading (Julie has given me some resources which I will paste below) and write an e-mail to the governor and to DEC. Their e-mail addresses are governor @chamber.state.ny.us and dmnsgeis@gw.dec.state.ny.us both need to have dSGEIS Comment in the subject line. A short but to the point note would work.
DEC's professional staff calls for moratorium: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=883182#email
A rally and press conference are planned for January 4th On the Steps of City Hall, NYC, calling on Gov. Paterson to withdraw DEC's draft SGEIS as fatally-flawed and incomplete. Environmental orgs, individuals and numerous NY politicians will attend. I'll send details shortly.
Here are a couple of helpful news stories:
Hinchey: http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2009/December09/24/natgas_Hinchey-24Dec09.html
Damning water, waste facts: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=882817
10,000 public comments submitted to DEC: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/almost_10000_people_submit_com.html
http://www.wktv.com/news/local/80298657.html
and from today's NYT
DEC's professional staff calls for moratorium: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=883182#email
A rally and press conference are planned for January 4th in Albany, calling on Gov. Paterson to withdraw DEC's draft SGEIS as fatally-flawed and incomplete. Environmental orgs, individuals and numerous NY politicians will attend. I'll send details shortly.
Here are a couple of helpful news stories:
Hinchey: http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2009/December09/24/natgas_Hinchey-24Dec09.html
Damning water, waste facts: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=882817
10,000 public comments submitted to DEC: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/almost_10000_people_submit_com.html
http://www.wktv.com/news/local/80298657.html
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