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[chasgas]

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"These Drill Killers are Aggressive".


--- On Tue, 12/1/09, Walter Hang <walter@toxicstargeting.com> wrote:

From: Walter Hang <walter@toxicstargeting.com>
Subject: Immediately Contact Governor Paterson About Marcellus Shale
To: signatories@lists.toxicstargeting.com
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 5:56 PM



Urgent Marcellus Shale Citizen Action Alert


Greetings:


In only three weeks, nearly 4,500 elected officials, environmental
organizations and citizens have signed the coalition letter requesting
Governor Paterson to withdraw the 9/30/09 draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) for Marcellus Shale Well Permit
Issuance for Horizontal Drilling and High-Volume Hydrofracking.



Thank you so much for your support.


Please take immediate action to contact Governor Paterson via email,
phone, fax or letter. Urge him to withdraw the dSGEIS. It is
imperative that you reach out to him until the dSGEIS comment period ends
on 12/31/09.


Urge your family, friends and colleagues to take action too.
Forward this email or post our Contact the Governor page on your
preferred social networking site:

http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/contact_gov


We will keep you updated as our efforts progress.


Email contact is best:

gov@chamber.state.ny.us

Please bcc:
info@toxicstargeting.com so
we can maintain a record of all contacts.


Governor David A. Paterson

State Capitol

Albany, NY 12224

518-474-8390 (o)

518-474-1513 (Fax)


Make the following points succinctly and emphatically:


Governor Paterson must immediately withdraw the draft Supplemental GEIS
because it is utterly inadequate to safeguard New York's environment and
public health.


The Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) own spill reports
document existing regulations have failed to prevent or to require the
clean up of hundreds of natural gas and oil drilling problems involving
fires, explosions, polluted drinking water wells, home evacuations and
massive drilling wastewater releases. DEC must not issue new gas
drilling permits until those regulatory concerns have been fully
resolved. That is why the Supplemental GEIS review must be
restarted.


The draft SGEIS totally fails to propose a safe method of managing
natural gas drilling wastewater and hydrofracking fluid. It simply
leaves that task to localities. Improper management of natural gas
drilling wastewater has already caused massive toxic pollution
impacts. The SGEIS must solve this disposal problem before new
natural gas drilling permits are issued.


DEC is woefully understaffed to cope with existing natural gas drilling
problems. Only 17 staff are available to regulate nearly 7,000
existing natural gas wells. New gas drilling permits must not be
issued until the SGEIS solves this problem.


The SGEIS fails to address critical issues associated with strict clean
up liability, natural gas spill reporting, private right of legal action,
insurance coverage and unfunded local government mandates. All
those concerns must be addressed prior to the issuance of new gas
drilling permits.


Share your personal concerns with Governor Paterson. Please be
respectful, but remember Governor Paterson has a duty to protect New
York's natural resources and public health. That is why the draft
SGEIS must be withdrawn.


Thank you for your assistance. Contact me if you have
questions.


Onward and upward,




Walter Hang


Coalition Letter sign-up:

http://www.toxicstargeting.com/Marcellu ... ion_letter


Marcellus Shale Section:

http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ithaca-NY ... 5035142437


Twitter:

http://twitter.com/toxicstargeting
chasgas..................................................

[BrookfieldKyle]

Chas why am I not surprised this came out of Ithaca. This must be the Facebook step child of Kill the Drill down in NYC. Keep up the good work all as common sense hopefully will prevail after all the dog and pony shows of the Obstructionists, NIMBYS and LIMBYS

[chasgas]

bk, i posted this on news articles... check this out.... http://dcbureau.org/20091203299/Natural ... b-rat.html

chasgas

[zechari]

Okay "fight fire with fire" how about we make a FB page and group that is pro-drilling? I'll relay this to MVP seeing he gets the articles/info best etc. Any thoughts?

[virtuallyme]

if we all participated on FB, it would be great,
but if there was NOT an equal but opposite response from us,
would it look like they win?
Is that a bad thing? I mean it might keep them preoccupied with squabbling on FB.
But,
could it influence the DEC? who knows?
also, the opposition is sure to sabotage our FB page with their garbage
it we start this we'd better be committed to follow through to the bitter end

[BrookfieldKyle]

bk, i posted this on news articles... check this out.... http://dcbureau.org/20091203299/Natural ... b-rat.html

chasgas

Hey Chas read Kilgour's comments after the article and if New York are the new lab rats what is Pennsylvania with currently 61 drilling rigs doing their thing in the Marcellus oil patch

[zechari]

The admins have complete control over who can post, what can be posted, and basically it can be filtered to ensure lack of "abuse." Besides its not a numbers/quantity game, quality partially but most importantly to help those make a better informed decision of what it truly is and the aspect of "user error" as most important. Knowledge and awareness of propane being used and it's efficiency. Speaking about the mishaps, spills/accidents, oversight/poor supervision is all key and crucial to educating the ignorance built by the anti-drillers, obstructionists, nimby's, etc. Knowing all the chemicals is pointless if there's no facility to treat it. Info is www a.k.a world wide web meaning its available and what better way to fight the hysteria, lies, and confusion?