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Monday, April 2, 2012

It Is Official...Fracking Impacts FOOD CHAIN

At Risk Resource

In news just in from Colorado, seems that our food chain is now officially THREATENED by the push for Natural Gas using the dangerous industrial practice that is commonly referred to as FRACKING. We already know that fracking will poison our water...well, farmers in Colorado who in the past have been the winning bidders for unallocated water were outbid by Natural Gas bidders...which means the water our farmers rely upon for crops is NOT THERE, is now OWNED BY FRACKING COMPANIES.

Northern Water Conservancy District runs the auction which sells off unallocated water from the Colorado River Basin, and the bidding is open to any one who has a beneficial use for the water...so, polluting some 500,000 to 5 million gallons of water (per well) with lethal and cancer causing chemicals, pumping it thousands of feet down into the ground to EXPLODE ROCKS is a BENEFICIAL USE? Furthermore, that water which would normally feed back into the environment is LOST FOREVER, unlike water used to water crops that in turn feed people.

Also not factored into this equation...farmers were outbid at the auctions, so there is the reality of lost food sources, but as prices for this dwindling resource (FRESH POTABLE WATER) continue to soar as the (un)Natural Gas industry demand for water increases, there is the very real fear of the price for food going up to a point where folks just will not be able to afford to buy it. In just one year the price for the water at this particular auction has risen on average six dollars per acre-foot from $22 last year, with some of the (un)Natural Gas industry's winning bids going as high as $35.

Ask yourselves America...are you willing to pay higher prices to feed your family so that companies like Cabot, Exxon and Chesapeake Energy can ship Natural Gas overseas to China? Are you willing to see streams, rivers and lakes sucked dry in the name of oil and gas company profits?

This is a fight that average Americans can win, but only if we all join forces and speak with a united voice at every level of government. Right now, a letter is sitting at the townhall in Fallsburg, NY. Said letters asks Steve Vegliante and the town board to ban fracking in our small community...every community in America, the citizens in those communities should be seeking similar bans.

If you live in the geographical footprint of the town of Fallsburg, contact Steve Vegliante, ask him and the other board members to move forward in changing our zoning laws to ban fracking. Write letters to the editor, call your local, state and elected officials asking that they ban the practice of fracking. Get involved before it is too late...the cost to our environment, water supplies and our health is too great, and as this latest story shows, get involved in this battle before you cannot even afford to feed your children.

Anti Frackers...Demand a FRACKING BAN

Government Contacts!

Sullivan County

Clerk to the County Legislature
Sullivan County Government Center
100 North Street
Monticello, New York 12701
Telephone: (845) 807-0435

TOWN OF BETHEL
Board Meetings:
2nd & 4th Wednesday, 7:30 PM
3454 Rt. 55/P.O. Box 300
White Lake, NY 12786
www.town.bethel.ny.us
FAX: (845) 583-4710
bethelclerk@hvc.rr.com
TOWN OF CALLICOON
Town Board Meetings:
2nd Monday, 7:30 P.M.
19 Legion Street, P.O. Box 687
Jeffersonville, NY 12748
FAX: (845) 482-5030
TOWN OF COCHECTON
Town Board Meetings:
2nd Wednesday, 7:00 P.M.
Town Hall: (845) 932-8360
FAX: (845) 932-7938
TOWN OF DELAWARE
Town Board Meetings:
3rd Wednesday, 7:00 P.M.
104 Main Street, P.O. Box 129
Hortonville, NY 12745
FAX: (845) 887-5228
www.townofdelaware-ny.us
TOWN OF FALLSBURG
Town Board Meetings:
2nd & 4th Tuesday, 7:30 P.M.
P.O. Box 830
South Fallsburg, NY 12779
Fax: (845) 434-8835
www.townoffallsburg.com
TOWN OF FORESTBURGH
Town Board Meetings:
1st Thursday, 7:00 P.M.
P.O. Box 114
Forestburgh, NY 12777
FAX: (845) 794-0678
TOWN OF FREMONT
Town Board Meetings:
2nd Wednesday, 7:00 P.M.
FAX: (845) 887-6605
TOWN OF HIGHLAND
Town Board Meetings:
2nd Tuesday, 7:00 P.M.
FAX: (845) 557-0257
TOWN OF LIBERTY
Town Board Meetings:
1st Monday, 4:00 PM, 3rd Monday, 7:00 PM
120 North Main Street
Liberty, NY 12754
FAX: (845) 292-1310
TOWN OF LUMBERLAND
Town Board Meetings:
2nd Wednesday, 7:30 P.M.
FAX: (845) 856-6080
TOWN OF MAMAKATING
Town Board Meetings:
1^st & 3^rd Tuesday, 7:00 P.M.
2948 Route 209
Wurtsboro, NY 12790
www.mamakating.org
FAX: (845) 888-5677
TOWN OF NEVERSINK
Town Board Meetings:
2nd Wednesday, 7:30 P.M.
P.O. Box 307, 273 Main Street
Grahamsville, NY 12740
FAX: (845) 985-7686
TOWN OF ROCKLAND
Town Board Meetings:
1st Thursday, 1:30 PM & 3rd Thursday, 7:30 PM.
95 Main St., P.O. 964
Livingston Manor, NY 12758
FAX: (845) 439-3775
TOWN OF THOMPSON
Town Board Meetings:
1st & 3rd Tuesday, 7:30 P.M.
Phone: (845) 794-2500FAX: (845) 794-8600
4052 Route 42
Monticello, NY 12701
www.townofthompson.com
TOWN OF TUSTEN
Town Board Meetings:
2^nd Monday, 7:00 P.M.
210 Bridge Street, P.O. Box 195, Narrowsburg, NY 12764
FAX: (845) 252-7509
Website: www.tusten-narrowsburg.org
E-mail: tustentownclerk@hvc.rr.com
VILLAGE OF BLOOMINGBURG
13 North Rd./P.O. Box 341
Bloomingburg, NY 12721
FAX: (845) 733-1741
VILLAGE OF JEFFERSONVILLE
17 Center Street
Jeffersonville, NY 12748
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 555, Jeffersonville, NY 12748
Phone: (845) 482-4275
Fax: (845) 482-5298
Village Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 A.M.-Noon, 1 P.M. - 4 P.M.
VILLAGE OF LIBERTY
167 North Main Street
Liberty, NY 12754
Phone: (845) 292-2250
FAX: (845) 292-2376
VILLAGE OF MONTICELLO
2 Pleasant Street
Monticello, NY 12701
Phone: (845) 794-6130
FAX: (845) 794-2327
VILLAGE OF WOODRIDGE
P.O. Box 655
Woodridge, NY 12789
Phone: (845) 434-7447
FAX: (845) 434-0916
E-mail: woodridge12789@yahoo.com
VILLAGE OF WURTSBORO
7 Pennsylvania Ave.P.O. Box 157, Wurtsboro, NY 12790
Phone: (845) 888-2522
FAX: (845) 888-2816
Village Office Hours:
Monday-Friday 9:00 A.M. -3:00 P.M.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

New York Fracking Action Alert...From Food and Water Watch

This just in...please take action on this ASAP as we try to get our governor to do the right thing for the state of New York, which is place a permanent ban on FRACKING in our state.

Huge news! On Monday, the Niagara Falls City Council voted unanimously to block fracking at the local level. And on Tuesday, the Buffalo Common Council passed a resolution supporting a statewide ban on fracking and wrote a letter to Governor Cuomo demanding that he not allow fracking in New York! Will you call the Governor (866-961-3208) now and tell him to heed Buffalo's warning?

This is a monumental and historic day, not only for Buffalo, but for all of New York state, and for communities everywhere affected by gas drilling. Last year Buffalo was the first city in New York state to pass municipal legislation opposing fracking and fracking waste, in order to protect residents from drilling and waste disposal. Now, Buffalo has stood up again, this time to protect its neighbors. Will you stand in solidarity with Buffalo and tell Cuomo that fracking needs to be banned in NY?

Give Cuomo a call NOW! Follow this link to make and report your call:
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9746

Thank you for taking action in defense of clean water,

Rita Yelda
Organizer, Western New York
Food & Water Watch

Friday, March 2, 2012

To Sullivan County and Town of Fallsburg Elected Officials...WHERE IS OUR FRACKING BAN?


Imagine This Path With A Fracking Rig

Contrary to what Oklahoma based Chesapeake Energy would have us believe, FRACKING is not safe. Also contrary to what the (un)Natural Gas industry would have us believe, we have the ability to STOP FRACKING IN ITS TRACKS here in Sullivan County, have the ability to stop it here in the geographical footprint of the "Town of Fallsburg". Two recent court decisions are MAJOR SET BACKS for the (un)Natural Gas industry, and big wins for local communities.

Simply stated, in two separate cases judges have ruled that banning fracking is a natural extension of a community's local government to control land use.

On Friday, Acting Supreme Court Justice Donald Cerio held that Middlefield, a town about 70 miles west of Albany, had the authority to ban gas drilling. The ruling came just three days after State Supreme Court Justice Phillip Rumsey dismissed Anschutz Exploration Corporation's bid to overturn a similar ban in the Ithaca suburb of Dryden, where the company owns leases on more than 220,000 acres of land.
Both judges held that the bans were natural extensions of local governments' authority to regulate their own land use.

Which begs the question of our own elected officials here in Sullivan County, both on the county level, and on the local level here in Fallsburg, "Where is our FRACKING BAN"? It seems rather obvious that a majority of the citizens of our county do not want FRACKING, and politicians are elected to do the peoples business, not the business of the rich and elite. So, where is our FRACKING BAN?

If our elected officials don't want to lose their deep pocketed supporters (donors) how about we put it up for a vote in the November Election? No fancy words, just a straight up or down vote with the majority's wishes immediately adhered to. It would be a David verse Goliath battle, and would bring some serious money into our county between now and December...can you imagine how much money the Natural Gas industry would spend trying to defeat the measure? Chesapeake Energy, Cabot, Exxon all flooding Sullivan County with bodies, knocking on doors, buying full page ads in every print media outlet, and probably wanting to toss around money trying to BUY VOTES...imagine every little league team but one sporting the emblems of a Natural Gas company, the lone hold out sponsored by the Anti Fracktivists as we have been labeled.

I am opening inviting ALL OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS in Sullivan County to post to this article, and explain their position on Fracking clearly and distinctly, am asking each of you to tell us where you stand personally, and as our elected officials where you stand in this fight. There is NO MIDDLE GROUND, you either support FRACKING and all the ills that WILL COME WITH IT, or you are opposed to it. If you suupport fracking, we HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW, and it will tell us just who we need target for defeat the next time you are up for re-election.

Again, where is our ban on Fracking, why haven't we passed zoning laws BANNING THIS SOON TO BE BLIGHT ON OUR COUNTY?

Anti Frackers...Demand a FRACKING BAN

Government Contacts!