Gas coalition landowners to rally in Albany
OXFORD – Members of the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York plan to rally on Capitol West Park in Albany next Wednesday in support of natural gas development in the state.
The rally, called “Save Our State” or “S.O.S.,” is intended to impact upon the state’s legislature before the summer recess about the potential to improve the state’s economy with clean energy and revenues from natural gas development.
According to Oxford Land Group President Bryant LaTourette, landowners have been dismayed to see how legislators are focusing more on how natural gas drilling might harm the environment, instead of how it might uplift the state’s overly stressed economy.
“We couldn’t agree more!” he said, emphasizing the group’s pro-environment stance as well. “That’s why we originally grouped together, circled the wagons by the thousands and built leases that took environmental concerns to the next level. We sent letters to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, flew to Texas, contacted chambers of commerce in shale gas areas, and assembled teams of folks to research hydraulic fracturing. The fact is, we found not one case of polluted drinking water can be linked or attributed to hydrofracturing.”
The decision to permit the water intensive drilling process that is needed to fracture shale formations located a mile below the surface, such as the Marcellus and Utica, still hangs in limbo. The DEC’s original deadline for completing the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement was to have been this month. Now, officials from the DEC and Governor Paterson’s office say the regulations might not be finished until the fall or closer to December, moving the entire process into its third year. A two-year federal investigation of hydrofracturing begun this spring by the Environmental Protection Agency threatens to delay New York’s decision even further.
LaTourette points out that all of the states, with the exception of New York, have allowed hydrofracturing and seen the resulting growth from harvesting local natural gas. By some estimates, Pennsylvania's natural gas producers spent $4.5 billion and created 44,000 jobs in 2009. Projections for 2010: $8 billion and 88,000 additional new jobs.
“It is a non-subsidized industry providing a bridge of clean energy to the future,” he said.
Buses from dozens of departure locations across the Southern Tier will transport landowners, their friends and neighbors to converge on Albany next week. For more information on the S.O.S. Rally, log on to www.jlcny.org.
The rally, called “Save Our State” or “S.O.S.,” is intended to impact upon the state’s legislature before the summer recess about the potential to improve the state’s economy with clean energy and revenues from natural gas development.
According to Oxford Land Group President Bryant LaTourette, landowners have been dismayed to see how legislators are focusing more on how natural gas drilling might harm the environment, instead of how it might uplift the state’s overly stressed economy.
“We couldn’t agree more!” he said, emphasizing the group’s pro-environment stance as well. “That’s why we originally grouped together, circled the wagons by the thousands and built leases that took environmental concerns to the next level. We sent letters to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, flew to Texas, contacted chambers of commerce in shale gas areas, and assembled teams of folks to research hydraulic fracturing. The fact is, we found not one case of polluted drinking water can be linked or attributed to hydrofracturing.”
The decision to permit the water intensive drilling process that is needed to fracture shale formations located a mile below the surface, such as the Marcellus and Utica, still hangs in limbo. The DEC’s original deadline for completing the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement was to have been this month. Now, officials from the DEC and Governor Paterson’s office say the regulations might not be finished until the fall or closer to December, moving the entire process into its third year. A two-year federal investigation of hydrofracturing begun this spring by the Environmental Protection Agency threatens to delay New York’s decision even further.
LaTourette points out that all of the states, with the exception of New York, have allowed hydrofracturing and seen the resulting growth from harvesting local natural gas. By some estimates, Pennsylvania's natural gas producers spent $4.5 billion and created 44,000 jobs in 2009. Projections for 2010: $8 billion and 88,000 additional new jobs.
“It is a non-subsidized industry providing a bridge of clean energy to the future,” he said.
Buses from dozens of departure locations across the Southern Tier will transport landowners, their friends and neighbors to converge on Albany next week. For more information on the S.O.S. Rally, log on to www.jlcny.org.
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