Links
Links to gas drilling in our area
NY Marcellus Shale – An Information Clearinghouse For Upstate NY Residents
Un-naturalgas.org – Fighting for the entirety of New York State and PA as well. A very well-put-together, and well-written site. Lots of clear, usable material.
Fracbusters – A thorough and understandable website that will give you a great overview of the problem of gas drilling.
Shaleshock.org – Grassroots group of Finger Lakes residents who are concerned with understanding and protecting our communities and environment from exploitation by the energy industry with regards to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale. Made up of and committed to work with and reach out to folks who have signed leases, not signed leases, or who have been compulsorily integrated.
NYWellWatch.org – News & Information about Marsellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling in the Finger Lakes & the Southern Tier
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) http://www.damascuscitizens.org/about.html
–Contains a wealth of links, current articles on natural gas drilling, and first-hand accounts from people who live in or near sites of drilling.
Background:
“Damascus Citizens…”- started in Damascus township in Pennsylvania, and concerns itself with the health and welfare of the entire Delaware River Basin, including both Pennsylvania and New York State. We are focused on the Upper Delaware Basin – counties in New York and Pennsylvania are the two sides of this coin.
“…for Sustainability” - because we are looking to the future. It is our right and obligation as citizens to participate in the choices that will affect our future. DCS’s concern is for the health and sustainability of life here for us as people, and for the entire ecosystem we and all those downstream depend on. We have to work together to assure this treasure is safe.
DCS is part of a countrywide coalition of groups of citizens speaking from their homes, who do not want their environment and lives and communities further ruined by the current irresponsible approach to energy sourcing. Sustainability is in our name because we recognize that there are other ways of getting and using energy. These ways are with us now and will be developed quickly if we demand them.
A wise man told me once that “The right to own property does not convey with it the privilege of harming people, communities or the environment. Law pretending to uphold property rights while empowering corporations or property-owners to destroy community, the environment on which all life depends, or the enjoyment of community and property by others, is illegitimate law.”
Right now the safeguarding of our future is not what is happening and that is what we want changed. We are so very creative. The response to this need for energy can be to develop renewable and sustainable energy. This can happen SO quickly now that it is clear that we have to do so. Our creative vitality can respond with zero carbon, non contaminating sources and methods if we put OUR energy into that goal.
Damascus interview with farmer Dave Kraeer on the impact of gas drilling in his town in Pennsylvania. More interviews available on the Damascus site under ‘Important Facts to Know’ (at bottom of page), and then after the link, also located toward the bottom of the links list.
Domestic Drilling Pollution Pictures. These are some telling pictures. If you think the gas companies are not going to destroy your land, you need to see these.
The Meredith Landowner’s CoalitionThe Meredith Landowners Coalition is a non-profit community group of local residents whose goal is to promote a better understanding of industrial gas development in our rural area.
