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Fracking. Hydrofracturing. Natural Gas Drilling. The imminent prospect of widespread hydrofracking across the Northeast, the US and the globe threatens the health, beauty, and happiness of our homes and natural surroundings. But the issue is vast and complex, and finding facts can be difficult. And everyone has a different perspective. Trailer Talk wants to hear about it. Stories from America’s kitchen table. Let’s talk.  Today a victory and some justice for Dimock, PA families, including Julie and Craig Sautner who have been without water since early 2009 because of Cabot Oil and Gas (fracking in the Marcellus.) I first traveled to Carter Road in Dimock in April of "09 (carrying water) with the Mayor of Dish, TX Calvin Tillman (he has since been forced to move out of his town because of the damaging pollution there and the illness of his sons caused by gas extraction) and Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, in addition to other grassroots groups. Truth and coalition building, courage and stamina are making the difference. Water is a right and a necessity.
What is really happening to the land, and those “majestic mountains” celebrated in the American Patriotic song, America the Beautiful? The song celebrates what is considered to be quintessentially American, which is the vast natural beauty and open space that we have in the Unites States. This natural beauty, considered to be a national legacy is coming into a battle to the death over the other legacy of America, its fossil fuels and globalized corporate system. So natural resources battle natural resources at a time when climate change is accelerating and pollutants increase and clean water diminishes. Let’s raise awareness together around the issue of fracking facing so many communities throughout the United States and globally. What are your concerns? It’s down to the final wire for public comments on the proposed regulations to allow for industrial gas drilling and fracking in New York…. Click Here to read Sabrina’s full article on Alternet “] This piece is from the Binghamton and Loch Sheldrake public hearings for the DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation), SGEIS (Draft Supplementa Generic Environmentall Impact Statement). Once the public comment period closes on January 11th, the DEC will issue a final SGEIS and Fracking can begin in NY. Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy has provided sample letters which must be submitted to the DEC by January 11th.
 Tom and Amanda Burchinal - DEC sGEIS Hearing Rally - Binghamton NY - Nov 2011 [Photo by Colleen Boland This piece includes some of the hundreds of people at the hearings, the anti-fracking rally and press conference in Binghamton on November 17th and people providing their 3 minute comments inside the auditorium. This is followed by some of the hundreds of people in Loch Sheldrake on November 29th, both for and against drilling, including Tom Shepstone the Northeast Campaign Director for Energy in Depth, an industry backed pro-drilling and fracking advocacy group, a representative form Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Ramsay Adams the director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, an environmental advocacy group fighting fracking and unsafe shale gas extraction in the Catskills of NY, Barbara Arrindell, director of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability(PA and the Delaware River Basin of PA and NY) and others. The DEC held only 4 hearings in NY which many people and organizations felt were inadequate so the volunteer grassroots organization, Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy along with several other organizations has organized an additional public hearing. It will be held at the OKUN Theatre at SUNY Delhi, in Delhi, NY on January 7th from 1-5 PM. Comments will be submitted to the DEC as part of their oofficialrecord. Also Catskill Mountainkeeper and a coalition of partners organized a rally, The State of the State Rally that was held in Albany on January 4th to send a message to Governor Cuomo to stop fracking and support a statewide ban on shale gas extraction in NY. Podcast: Play in new window | Download |
   
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