The forum, sponsored by Citizens for Local Power, the Ulster County Planning Department, the Ulster County Association of Supervisors and Mayors, and Catskill Mountainkeeper, will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept 29 at Ulster County Community...
On the Bright Side: Food, fun and fracking highlighted at Taste of the Catskills
Oneanta Daily Star - Monday, October 13, 2014 6:30 am
By Cheryl Petersen Contributing Writer
Sounds of giddy children, melodic musicians and chatty adults reverberated through the Catskills in Delhi over the weekend. The Taste of the Catskills Festival, outfitted to entertain, feed and educate, sprawled over spacious lawn at Maple Shade Farm, open to a large crowd.
Vendors lined up inside the nearby Maple Shade barn, built in 1897 with hand-hewn beams. Advocating for the region, vendor Catskill Mountainkeeper presented a lineup of footage showing the detriments of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, but at the same time acknowledged that the issue boils down to changing the American culture, heady with non-renewable energy consumption.
Read moreThe Largest Climate March in History!! 400,000+ March in NYC to Stop Climate Change
NEW YORK - They’re calling it the largest mobilization against climate change in the history of the planet. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators of all ages and from around the world turned out for the massive People’s Climate March Sunday, filling the streets of midtown Manhattan with demands for global leaders take action to avert catastrophic climate change....
New tourist center named for Hinchey
"The center will be staffed through a partnership that includes the Friends of the Catskill Interpretive Center, the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, the NY-NJ Trail Conference, the Catskill Mountain Club, Ulster County Tourism and the Catskill Mountainkeeper."
Former Congressman Maurice Hinchey attended the groundbreaking Tuesday for a tourist center in Shandaken that will bear his name. Hinchey first secured funding for the project back in the 1980s.PAULINE LIU/Times Herald-Record
SHANDAKEN — Talk about red tape. More than 30 years after Maurice Hinchey secured the original funding to build a tourist center in Shandaken, a groundbreaking ceremony finally took place.
On Tuesday, the former congressman joined Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens and local groups to celebrate the center which will bear his name.
The Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center is slated to be a 1,700-square-foot facility located off State Route 28. The project is expected to be completed next spring.....
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Poll: Fracking Opposed in Southern Tier, Finger Lakes
Democrat and Chronicle - 8:45 p.m. EDT July 31, 2014
Fiala is now commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles. Two years later, Catskill Mountainkeeper paid for a poll by Pulse Opinion Research that found 48 percent of Broome residents surveyed did not support fracking in their town, compared to
Teachout Visits Callicoon Center; Vows to Stay on Ballot
In the room were representatives of Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, Catskill Mountainkeeper, filmmaker Josh Fox, and many others. That anti-fracking line elicited a healthy round of applause and Teachout, a law …River Reporter
New York Top Court OKs Local Drill Bans
UPDATE: One of the leading opponents of the natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing - or fracking - in Sullivan County and New York State cheered the appellate court's decision to uphold local drilling bans.
"It's a huge day for communities in New York," said Wes Gillingham of Sullivan County-based Catskill Mountainkeeper.
Five towns in Sullivan have passed laws to ban fracking. Two, Delaware and Fremont, passed resolutions supporting it.
Read moreSustainable Efforts In The Southern Tier
BY CAROLINE GOGGIN
June 21, 2014
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Opportunity for change was the main topic at a conference in the Southern Tier on sustaining the economy.
Local business leaders joined the New York State Sustainable Business Council at Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Americorps Team Spruces up Livingston Manor and Frost Valley
A team with the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), an AmeriCorps program, is working with the Frost Valley YMCA to help maintain their current trail systems. For the next seven weeks, eight NCCC members will be working to improve the hiking experience for guests at their retreat center.
Ulster County Executive Mike Hein Issues Executive Order Requiring County Government To Purchase …
Page 2 of 2 - Kathy Nolan, Research Director for Catskill Mountainkeeper “This is wonderful, exciting news and I want to commend County Executive Hein for his leadership in protecting our most precious resource, the …Post Star News · 6/6/2014
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