Thursday, May 30, 2013

Dr. Sandra Steingraber: To Drill Or Not To Drill



Published on Apr 16, 2013
Recorded Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at Grace Episcopal Church, Elmira, NY

Dr. Sandra Steingraber is a biologist, author, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the Department of Environmental Studies at Ithaca College. Her research and writing focuses on environmental health and, for the past two years, has explored the health and environmental impacts of shale gas extraction. Steingraber has served as a science advisor for several state, federal, and international initiatives, including the California Breast Cancer Research Program, the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, the President's Cancer Panel, and the Health and Environmental Alliance in the Europe Union. In 2011, Steingraber received a Heinz Award for lifetime achievement and donated the prize money to the anti-fracking movement in New York State, thus becoming a founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking. She is also a founding principal of Concerned Health Professionals of New York.

Decisions related to fracking should be considered with the safety and well-being of Elmira and surrounding area residents in mind. We encourage you to attend this key presentation to hear leading experts discuss the economic, health, environment, and socio-cultural effects that the gas industry has on communities. Those who attend will have an opportunity to address questions and concerns directly to the presenters. The forum offers a rare opportunity for Elmira and area residents, elected officials, and spiritual leaders to become more informed so that they can better answer the question for themselves: To frack or not to frack.

Dr. Janette Barth: To Frack Or Not To Frack



Published on Apr 16, 2013
Recorded Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at Grace Episcopal Church, Elmira, NY

Dr. Jannette Barth is an economist with Pepacton Institute LLC in Croton-on-Hudson, a research and consulting organization. Since 1974, Dr. Barth has been estimating regional and local economic impacts in the United States and the United Kingdom. As an example of her work, Dr. Barth was retained to estimate economic impacts of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Former positions include Chief Economist, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Consultant, Chase Econometrics/Interactive Data Corporation. Barth has lectured and written extensively on the economic impacts of shale gas development, including a recent peer-reviewed article in the journal, New Solutions.

Decisions related to fracking should be considered with the safety and well-being of Elmira and surrounding area residents in mind. We encourage you to attend this key presentation to hear leading experts discuss the economic, health, environment, and socio-cultural effects that the gas industry has on communities. Those who attend will have an opportunity to address questions and concerns directly to the presenters. The forum offers a rare opportunity for Elmira and area residents, elected officials, and spiritual leaders to become more informed so that they can better answer the question for themselves: To frack or not to frack.

Professor Ingraffea: To Frack Or Not To Frack (April 2013)



Published on Apr 16, 2013
Recorded Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at Grace Episcopal Church, Elmira, NY

Dr. Tony Ingraffea is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering and a Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University. He did R&D at Cornell for the oil and gas industry for 25 years, specializing in hydraulic fracture simulation and pipeline safety, and twice won the National Research Council/U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics Award for Research in Rock Mechanics. He became a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1991 and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Fracture Mechanics in 2005. He won ASTM's George Irwin Medal for outstanding research in fracture mechanics in 2006, and in 2009 was named a Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture. Recently, he has been deeply engaged in informal education regarding the topic of this lecture with over 100 public presentations. He is also President and a founding Member of the Board of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc. TIME Magazine named him one of its "People Who Mattered" in 2011.

Decisions related to fracking should be considered with the safety and well-being of Elmira and surrounding area residents in mind. We encourage you to attend this key presentation to hear leading experts discuss the economic, health, environment, and socio-cultural effects that the gas industry has on communities. Those who attend will have an opportunity to address questions and concerns directly to the presenters. The forum offers a rare opportunity for Elmira and area residents, elected officials, and spiritual leaders to become more informed so that they can better answer the question for themselves: To frack or not to frack.

Hagy Fracking Lawsuit: February 2013



Published on Feb 19, 2013
 
Pictures & a taped call admitting guilt tell 1,000 words. This movie illustrates how fracking's "catch-22" shields natural gas companies and allows landowners to become collateral damage. The Hagy family in West Virginia had lived for 20 years on 81 rural acres and their water well was tainted and the family became sick after 3 "fracking" wells were drilled in 2008. The family has since vacated their property. SHOW THIS MOVIE TO YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS and ask for smarter state fracking regulations that level the playing field for all parties involved in fracking.

Read the article HERE.

“We just want our day in court.”
      Dusty Hagy of Romance, West Virginia
"In 1989, Dusty and Tamera Hagy bought 81 rural acres in Jackson County, West Virginia. Twenty-one years later, the Hagys sued 4 natural gas drilling firms alleging the natural gas wells drilled on their property in 2008 contaminated their drinking water and caused physical harm."

HUMAN COLLATERAL DAMAGE!  
IS THIS OK WITH US?

Video by Laura Peltier.  Many thanks, Laura.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Frackalypse in Pennsylvania


Published on May 21, 2013
Gas fracking companies revealed in a private PR conference that they're using military psychological warfare tactics (Psyops) on U.S. soil, and described citizens concerned about fracking's threat to health, water and the climate as "an insurgency."

With apologies to Francis Ford Coppola, welcome to Frackalypse Now.
For more information, visit www.DeSmogBlog.com/Fracking

Also check out MarkFiore.com.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Who's Funding the NY League of Conservation Voters?

Look who is funding and sponsoring the NY League of Conservation Voters for its gala this week:

http://nylcv.org/2013_Gala_Sponsors

A few notables:

Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Con Edison
Edward Cox
CSX Transportation
Roz and Richard Edelman
Christopher Elliman/Open Space Institute
Paul Elston and Frances Beinecke
Environmental Defense Fund
Barbara J. Fife
FMC Engineering, P.C./Greg T. Felner, P.E. and Edward T. McCune, P.E.
Lorance Hockert Esq.
Arthur and Marian Imperatore/NY Waterway
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
New York State Laborers/James Melius MD
NRG Energy
Structure Tone Inc.
Waste Management

SUPPORTERSAECOM
Cablevision
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
Ann Davlin/Carbon War Room
Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky LLP
Dragados USA
The Durst Organization
Entergy
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Gardiner & Theobald Inc.
General Contractors Association
Gensler
Gibbons P.C.
Hank and Karoly Gutman
Marjorie and Gurnee Hart
Robin and William Hubbard
IUOE Local 94
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Kasirer Consulting, LLC
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
League of Conservation Voters
Liberty Natural Gas LLC
Evan Mason and Garrard Beeney/Sustainable Yards
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
National Grid
Nixon Peabody LLP
Nouveau Elevator/Robert Speranza
NRDC
Glenn Pacchiana/Thalle Industries
The Pataki-Cahill Group
Gail S. Port/Proskauer Rose LLP
Roux Associates, Inc.
Sims Metal Management
Spectra Energy
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Damien Tener/Tener Consulting Services LLC
Tishman Construction, An AECOM Company
Tonio Burgos and Associates, Inc.
Transmission Developers Inc.
United Water
Verizon
Walentas Foundation Ltd.
Edward C. Wallace/Greenberg Traurig LLP
Earl D. and Gina Ingoglia Weiner
Weidlinger Associates Inc.
Williams

Something doesn't look right here.

Read more here.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood?



Published on May 18, 2013
All this happening on Turnpike Rd., Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pa.. Flaring on the Teddick Gas Pad and see the fire damages at the Williams Compressor Station. I gave a Citizen Gas Tour for a group from NJ , who are with the Food and Water Watch Organization and they toured with their placard-decorated Anti-Frack Mobile....

From Vera Scroggins, Independent Media/Journalist

Anti-Fracking Mobile


Friday, May 10, 2013

Fracking: Another Spill in PA

In the span of two months the same gas drilling company, Carizzo Marcellus, has had two accidents in Wyoming County and spilled thousands of gallons of fracking fluid. After the first accident on March 13 released more than a quarter million gallons of fluids and forced the evacuation of three homes, the state Department of Environmental Protection asked the company to halt all operations within the state. But the DEP allowed Carizzo to resume work just a few weeks later, before the agency’s own investigation was complete. Now Carrizo has spilled another 9,000 gallons at a different well site in Wyoming County.


Read the article here.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Flaring a Gas Well In Susquehanna County, PA

Video by Frank Finan. Can you imagine living near this? The peepers are beautiful to listen to, but the roar of that flare and the bright fire ball spoil it. Flaring is harmful to air quality.