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Don't Frack With NYNotes from Our Fracking Campaign
Riverkeeper, in conjunction with a coalition of environmental
groups represented by Earthjustice – Catskill Mountainkeeper, Clean Air
Council, Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society, Delaware Riverkeeper Network,
and Sierra Club – submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) on Constitution Pipeline’s application to construct a
interstate pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to the
New York City and Boston metropolitan areas. More
Tell Senate leadership – Sens. Jeff Klein and Dean Skelos – to
immediately bring the fracking moratorium and hazardous waste bills to a
vote, before the Senate goes home on June 21! More
Hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale produces millions
of gallons of radioactive waste fluid, which could be sent to Rockland
wastewater treatment plants or spread on Rockland roads. Although the
future of high-volume hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in New York
State remains uncertain, drilling in Pennsylvania … More
On May 2, an appeals court decision in the Dryden and
Middlefield cases upheld local zoning laws that ban fracking within town
borders, finding that such bans do not conflict with New York State’s
Oil, Gas, and Solution Mining Law (OGSML). More
Revelations this week about three of the consulting firms
involved in New York State’s ongoing environmental review process
assessing high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) raise
serious questions about conflicts of interest and add to the list of
fundamental flaws in the review process. More
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