Hydrofracking Public Meeting on 2/10

Over 12,000 citizens and organizations wrote comments on the dSGEIS to NYS DEC. Untallied thousands wrote letters, made phone calls and signed petitions opposing hydro-fracking to NYS DEC, Governor David Paterson and government representatives. There were no formal DEC Public Hearings on the dSGEIS in Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and Utica. Hundreds of farmers and other land owners have leased their land to gas companies without being informed of the use of horizontal drilling and high-volume hydro-fracking and its severe consequences.

There is a growing grassroots movement across NYS and the nation to ban hydro-fracking. Within this context, citizens are creating a Citizens’ Community Forum on Hydro-Fracking. We have invited a variety of local through federal representatives. Guests/Representatives will open the event with brief comments. Then there will be time for citizens to voice their concerns.

Confirmed Guests are:
Lee Macbeth, Syracuse Watershed Control Coordinator
Ken Lynch, Region 7 DEC Director
Dave Valesky, State Senator
Daniel Young, Regional Representative for Governor Paterson
Mark Dunau, Northeast Organic Farmers Association and Delaware County Farm Bureau
Local landowners who have signed leases

Concerns will go under the following categories:
Environmental
Human Health 

Fossil Fuel versus green, sustainable energy
Climate Change
Economic
Rural and agricultural

-Gail