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URGENT!! Please take three minutes right now to go to the website link below and send an urgent letter to our NY lawmakers.

http://www.capwiz.com/iogany/home

"It’s one-sided, flawed and personal in the Michael Moore mode..." -- Peter Applebome, NY Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/nyregion/10towns.html

Landowners to Albany: Let the drilling begin
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20100609/NEWS01/6090395/Landowners+to+Albany++Let+the+drilling+begin

BY JON CAMPBELL •ALBANY BUREAU • MAY 25, 2010, 7:40 PM

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.

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.

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.

By Nicholas McCrea

May 02, 2010, 9:00AM

David Lassman / The Post-StandardSyracuse University hydrology professor Donald Siegel examines a sample of Marcellus Shale at an outcropping of this rock on Rt. 174 in Marcellus.

At a public forum in DeWitt, Syracuse University hydrology professor Don Siegel thought he had presented enough unbiased, scientific information to prove that drilling for natural gas in New York would benefit the state far more than it might hurt.

By John Stith/The Post-Standard

April 23, 2010, 5:11PM

Syracuse, NY -- State environmental officials today made it more difficult to use horizontal hydraulic fracturing — hydrofracking — to drill for natural gas in the Skaneateles Lake and Catskills watersheds.

Late summer wrap-up projected for DEC plan

By Jon Campbell •Albany Bureau • April 15,
2010, 7:00 pm

ALBANY -- The review of a draft plan for natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale is being slowed by a staff shortage and may not be finished until late summer or early fall, the state Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner said Thursday.

A film about the development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in the Southern Tier of New York and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

Showing on
April 16th, 2010
7:00pm (reception to follow)
$10 admission

West Middle School
West Middle Ave
Binghamton, NY