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Schlumberger Shutdown Joins Summer of Solidarity

Posted on August 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

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By Nell Gagnon – Originally posted at http://www.dontfrackwithus.org/

At about 11:00 AM Saturday morning, over one hundred and fifty people arrived at the gates of the Schlumberger industrial facility in Horseheads, NY. Most were from New York’s Southern Tier, some from as nearby as the town where the facility is located, and some from as far away as Pennsylvania. Among their numbers were children, grandparents, college students, and working people of all kinds. Some hailed from villages and countryside across the Southern Tier, others small Upstate cities and towns. That day, they all had a common purpose: to defend their communities, land, and water from hydro-fracking. And they did so in a way New York State has not yet seen – direct action, at the gates of the gas industry. Continue reading →

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NY Moratorium on Fracking May Be Sidestepped by using Propane

Posted on April 17, 2012 | Leave a comment
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s Fight The Frack workshop.  An organizer with ShaleShock and Finger Lakes Earth First! held a discussion regarding the state of fracking in New York state.  He updated us about the effective activities they’ve held including a Ruckus Society training camp and street theater against oil companies at large rallies.  He also informed us that much of the infrastructure for fracking has already been built in New York State, because of the previous infrastructure made for conventional drilling which is already common in the area, and also that dirty frack water is spread on the streets of New York and Ohio in the winter time as a de-icer!  If you’d like to learn more about the coalition, Shaleshock, which coordinated action with many different anti-fracking groups, check out their website here. Also, check out the article below regarding risk to the NY fracking moratorium:
 

Waterless Fracking Method Could Sidestep NY Gas Drilling Ban

Amid skepticism from engineers and environmentalists, landowners and drilling company bet on LPG fracking, which uses propane instead of water.

Apr 16, 2012
Calgary-based GasFrac Energy ServicesThe Tioga County Landowners Association will lease 135,000 acres to Houston-based eCorp International. The fracking will be done by Calgary-based GasFrac Energy Services, which pioneered the LPG process.

A plan to extract shale gas and oil from 135,000 acres in Tioga County, N.Y., could break through the state’s hydraulic fracturing moratorium, because the wells would be fracked not with water but with liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, a mixture of mostly propane.

A relatively new technology, LPG fracking doesn’t fall under New York’s current hydraulic fracturing moratorium. Instead it could be permitted under the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s 1992 Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, according to Emily DeSantis, the DEC’s director of public information.

DeSantis said LPG fracking would also require an additional assessment under the state’s Environmental Quality Review Act, or even a separate environmental impact statement “if the proposed activity may result in significant adverse environmental impacts not previously or adequately addressed.”

New York placed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in 2010, after environmentalists and some residents began worrying that hydraulic fracturing might contaminate the watershed that supplies water to New York City and other parts of the East Coast.

The moratorium won’t be lifted until a new Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement is complete. The DEC expects to finish the work on that document by the end of the year.

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