Top NY Court Set To Shine Spotlight On Local Fracking Bans
“This is something that's spreading beyond New York,” according to Catskill Mountainkeeper co-founder Wes Gillingham, a fracking opponent. A ruling striking down local bans in New York could be seen as a threat to many jurisdictions throughout the ...Law 360 · By Pete Brush · 5/29/2014
Watch Mountainkeeper's Wes Gillingham On NOWTHISNEWS.com
Watch Mountainkeeper Program Director Wes Gillingham talk about why supporting fracking is not good national policy.
Democrats Introduce Fracking Waste Bills
WAMC News - 12:59 PM WED MAY 14, 2014A trio of Democrats in the New York State Senate are introducing legislation that would ban the use of hydraulic fracturing waste products. The minority conference released four bills that would ban fracking waste from being shipped into the state; ban waste products from being retooled and reused on roads and highways; ban the sale of liquid fracking waste; and prohibit water treatment facilities and landfills from accepting fracked waste products.
Manhattan Democrat Liz Krueger sponsored the bill to prohibit the sale of any fracked liquid waste products. She says toxic materials from other states are being dumped in New York. “I learned from the scientists and the medical doctors we had testifying yesterday that large quantities of the fracking waste are actually being imported across state lines into our state. Some is poured directly into municipal wastewater systems.
Breaking News: Oil Explosion in Lynchburg, Virginia Amplifies Urgent Need to Derail Expansion of Oil Trains in New York State
These days, there’s a lot of crude oil from the nation’s heartland running through New York State and if the oil companies have their way, there’s going to be a lot more. Production from shale fields in the nation’s interior and Canada has dramatically increased. Since there’s limited capacity for shipping petroleum products by pipeline, energy companies are turning more to rail transportation to ship its crude to coastal refineries, and then export. As a result, the nation’s oil industry now wants to make Albany, our state’s capital, a major refining and export center. Help us stop the expansion of crude oil transportation - send a letter to Governor Cuomo today!
Broad Coalition Urges New York to Set Firm Deadline for Global ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)-18 hours ago
It is the DEC's job to verify what is actually happening,” said Wes Gillingham, program director for Catskill Mountainkeeper. Within the past year, ...
Citizen Action Protests Constitution Pipeline Draft
Binghamton Homepage - Apr 7, 2014
The organizations including Catskill Mountainkeeper, the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society, Earthjustice and the Sierra Club say the ...
Community Science Institute Builds Groundwater Database for ...
ithaca.com - Apr 9, 2014
... the EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), local governments, news organizations, Catskill Mountainkeeper and on, and on, and on,” ....
Local Watchdog Group to Begin Monitoring Groundwater
ithaca.com-April 4, 2014
... local governments, news organizations, Catskill Mountainkeeper and on, and on, and on,” Penningroth said. “We're going to try get national .
Hurley Hears Both Sides of Frack Moratorium Debate
Woodstock Times-Mar 30, 2014
A hydrologist spoke about fracking's dangers, showing off samples of dirtied frack water; Kathy Nolan from Catskill Mountainkeeper told about .
The Coming Shale Gas Bust by James Howard Kunstler
Woodstock Times-Mar 29, 2014
Admission is $15 and the event is sponsored by CatskillMountainkeeper. Tags: fracking, James Howard Kunstler. Only a fraction of the ..
