Summer Rally - June 9th
Updated! Urgent!
This is our last chance before Albany's summer recess and fall ELECTIONS to show our leaders that NYers support gas!
Environmental, gas groups spar over Marcellus Shale drilling
Elmira Star Gazette
ALBANY -- Environmentalists descended on the Capitol this week to push a bill that would prohibit issuing natural-gas-drilling permits in New York's Marcellus Shale until a federal study is complete, but a group of drilling advocates called the proposal "unnecessary."
Natural-gas companies and some landowners are eager to begin drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation, which stretches across many of the northeastern states and is rich with natural gas. But some are worried about the potential impact of using hydraulic fracturing, or hydro-fracking, to help extract the gas.
Peter Hosey elected to serve on State Bar Association Council of Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section.
Chenango leaders highlight economic growth through natural gas development
By: Tyler Murphy, Sun Staff Writer
Published: May 14th, 2010
NORWICH – Standing in front of the Chenango County Courthouse Thursday, gas company representatives along with local government and business officials passed $656,923 worth of symbolic checks at a press conference highlighting the 2009 tax revenue gained from natural gas development.
To the editor: Drilling foes debate old questions
By The Post-Standard
May 14, 2010, 7:24AM
By Brad Gill
Executive director of Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York
Brad Gill, executive director of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York.The series of anti-drilling letters that ran April 21 demonstrate the inability or unwillingness of some people to educate themselves on the facts regarding natural gas exploration.
First, to call an advertisement by the American Petroleum Institute “propaganda,” is laughable in light of the misinformation being fed to these same fact-starved people by environmental groups who create this frenzy of fear and then ask for your donations to help make it go away.
Legislature introduced to increase royalties from forced itergration
Assemblywoman Lupardo just introduced legislation to increase the royalties for integrated owners in the Marcellus Shale region in New York. Below is a link to the bill (A.10956).
Senator Valesky's office has indicated that they will be introducing it in the Senate as well.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A10956&Summary=Y&Action...
May 25th Albany Rally -- CANCELLED
The Albany rally for May 25th has been cancelled - the majority of our elected officials will not be in town on that date.
Face of the coalition and letters to the editor needed
We need 20 or so people to write letters to the editor concerning pro drilling. If you are interested and can commit to doing this, please email Richard directly at Rlasky@frontiernet.net with your telephone contact.
We are also looking for 5 people who are having a difficult time holding on and need the gas money to survive. These people will be interviewed for a movie and it will be a very very important step to get publicity against the tree huggers. We need these 5 asap.
We CAN make a difference!
Officials are starting to take notice - keep writing letters!
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Email campaign to NY Elected Officials.
We have created a new tool to streamline sending emails to elected officials. By filling out the form with your full name, and city/state, it will generate a series of links with the email addresses, and custom letters created for each of the NYS officials. All you have to do is click on the official's names to load the email (it will show up in your email client), and click send.