Music in the Mountains: The Irish Catskills and Traditional Music, Saturday, January 16, 2010
Music in the mountains
On Saturday, January 16, The New York Irish Center, in conjunction with the Irish Studies Program at New York University, will host Music in the Mountains: The Irish Catskills and Traditional Music. The event is the first in a series of lectures that will focus on historically important topics and various aspects of Irish and Irish-American history entitled Know Ireland Better...
January 5, 2009, NY Daily News: Critics drill Gov. Paterson on water plan
Critics drill Gov. Paterson on water plan
link to complete article is here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/05/2010-01-05_critics_drill_dave_on_water_plan.html
Tuesday, January 5th 2010, 4:00 AM
January 1, 2010, New York Times Editorial: Hands Off the Watershed
Hands Off the Watershed
link to complete article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/opinion/02sat2.html?sq=drilling&st=Search&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1262643819-st%205suDvAp4mOLPmZ%20qN4A
Published: January 1, 2010
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December 30, 2009, Greene County Daily Mail: Greene History Notes When the icehouses reigned
Greene History Notes
When the icehouses reigned
By David Dorpfeld
Greene County Historian
From the middle of the 19th century into the early part of the 20th century, the shores of the Hudson River north of Poughkeepsie were dotted with huge wooden icehouses.....
Read moreNYC and Hinchey Come Out Against Current Gas Drilling Study Susan Barnett (2009-12-24)
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http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/
http://www.naturalgas.org/naturalgas/extraction_directional.asp
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December 10, 2009, NPR On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Gas, Shale, and ‘Hydrofracking’
link to complete article is here: https://www.onpointradio.org/2009/12/gas-shale-and-hydrofracking
A drilling rig used to bore thousands of feet into the earth to extract natural gas from the Marcellus shale deep underground is seen on a farm in Houston, Penn., in October 2008...
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Poem: 'Poison Drills' Rob Jagodzinski, December 2009
Poison Drills
Rob Jagodzinski
December 2009
Take me to our stream, papa
It dances in our dreams, papa...
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Natural gas locked in the Marcellus Shale has companies rushing to cash in on possibilities
December 3, 2009, Washington Post: An energy answer in the shale below?
An energy answer in the shale below?
New technology opens vast stores of natural gas, and the land rush is on
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 3, 2009
link is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2009120204305_pf.html
The first time Chesapeake Energy tried to buy mineral rights from Diana Whitmore, a 74-year-old retired real estate broker in southern New York, it offered her $125 for every acre of land plus a 12 percent royalty on whatever natural gas it extracts...
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