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Fracking and Food
The Marcellus Effect Blog is running a series on organic farming and the impact of fracking. Part 1 talks about an organic farmer who had no problem with a gas pad half-a-mile away (that’s 2640 feet)...
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The Arrest of Sandra Steingraber
Last week Sandra Steingraber along with eleven others was arrested for blocking construction on the Inergy underground LP storage facility at Watkins Glen. In the interview she explains what led her to...
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Wine ‘em, and Dine ‘em, then Pipeline ‘em
The following essay was written as an opinion piece in the Binghamton Press 4/3 by Pamela Williams. Residents of the Southern Tier know the flood threat under which we live. My concern is over the lack...
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Fracking: It’s in Your Hands
Last week Home Rule was upheld in New York Appellate Court. The fracking bans in the towns of Dryden and Middlefield were found to be legal. Both those for and against fracking see positives in this....
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Visit to PA shows TRUTH about fracking
Our member Carol Egan has written another to-the-point opinion piece for our local paper. She has graciously allowed us to reprint it here. As the hydrofracking debate rages on in New York, a group of...
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Where’s the Fracking Waste to Go?
When the Joint Landowners address town boards they talk about the money, they talk about how the gas wells will just be nice flat grassy areas (when they are not being fracked), and they talk about the...
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Crossroads Rally in Albany
NY State Capital June 17th, 2013 Did you go? In this day of modern technology it is easy to sit back in one’s computer chair and wonder why anyone would want to go stand out in the heat of the …...
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To Mitigate
To mitigate: 1. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen… Mitigate is a favorite word of the natural...
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Liquified Natural Gas: Why Worry?
I didn’t know much about LNG until I started completing Sandra Steingraber’s Return of the 30 Days: Infrastructure comments. After all, those LNG trucks look so innocuous – all nice and white with...
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Methane Leaks? An artwork is worth a thousand words
Back in March a study of methane leakage in New York City was released. Commissioned by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability and performed by Gas Safety, the study graphically depicted the leakage of...
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Things to be Thankful for
On October 3rd 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the proclamation making Thanksgiving a national holiday. Sarah Hale, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, had been writing presidents with this request...
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Nelson Mandela’s Advice to Activists
There have been many battles fought against oppression over the years. In particular, the trials, tribulations, and success of Nelson Mandela have been widely recognized and honored. Julie Sprankles...
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A New Yorker’s Anti-Fracking Resolutions for 2014
What are you planning to do in 2014? Did you make any of these common New Year’s resolutions such as — Lose weight? Exercise more? Well, let me suggest that taking part in the New York State...
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Welcome “Not in MY Backyard” Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson
Let’s welcome EXXON CEO Rex Tillerson to our anti-fracking community. It seems that he has just joined a lawsuit to prevent a 130 foot water tower that will provide water to a nearby fracking site from...
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Governor Cuomo Why are you afraid of us?
It was cold Saturday morning. I know because I, and a 100 other people from the Southern Tier, stood outside the Binghamton University Event Center to meet and greet Governor Cuomo and let him know...
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Reading Past the Headlines on Fracking Studies
Two scientific studies to think about. Do they conflict or do they actually say the same thing? Fracking Wells Tainting Drinking Water in Pennsylvania and Texas, Study Finds This study reported on by...
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A Gift for Our Children
All those wonderful holiday gifts will do our children little good if their air, water, and earth are polluted with hydrocarbons and radioactivity, and their future is imperiled by global warming...
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A Christmas Carol for the World
There can be no peace on earth until we are at peace with the earth. Please join in singing this song with your neighbors, your friends, your relatives and your children. Then take action. Save the...
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This blog is not going to go away.
When good people cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. Pearl S. Buck New York State Has Banned Fracking It feels so good to write that headline. It feels so good to know that...
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Health Effects of Fracking
Fracking may be banned in New York, but the health effects do not recognize state borders. Air, water, and fracking waste creep into our state daily from our fracked-to-death neighbor, Pennsylvania....
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