As noted in a previous post, if you want some action in Albany, this is the year to clean out the senate - by getting rid of the Republican majority. Pick 3. Any 3. So long as one of them is Tom Libous:
The Republican senatorial committee chairs will sit on every bill that comes up - no hearings, no nothing . For instance - Senator Grisanti was asked over a week ago to schedule hearings for the fracking bills in front of his committee. Not a peep out of the boy to date.
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2012/03/06/democrats-push-for-hydrofracking-health-study-public-hearings/
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Senate Democrats Force Senator Grisanti’s Hand on Hydrofracking Legislation
Senate Democrats used parliamentary procedure to call for a public hearing by the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee on a wide list of bipartisan hydrofracking bills (attached is the petition for public hearing and the list of bills). The Committee chaired by Sen. Grisanti has not held one hearing on the issue of hydrofracking. Because of the maneuver by the Senate Democratic Conference, Sen Grisanti has been forced to accept the petition for public hearing on these bills and must now schedule a public hearing within 14 days.
“For too long the Senate Republicans and Senator Grisanti have decided to brush the issue of hydrofracking under the rug. This issue is too important to ignore.” stated Senate Democratic Spokesman Mike Murphy. Video of the hearing (they ask him at the end of the meeting) Senate Rules on Petition for Public Hearing |
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These guys with their heads in the sand are just taking up space in the real world that could be addressing this terminally corrupt and innately deleterious issue of fracking. Get those lazy(R)bums out of the Senate and let’s get down to the business of disclosing once and for all the harmful results that is entailed in High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing/Horizontal Drilling and get the rational logical show on the road. Ruinous health, millions of gallons of permanently destroyed potable water, aquifers, groundwater, decimated real estate values, transforming upstate into one industrial zone, loss of existing economies, overstated resources Ponzi scheme style, false job claims, high $ export targeted goal, not as stated domestic use, not to mention radiated ‘hot pipes’ and radon222 that would be coming thru the Marcellus Shale play. If we all don’t get them out, think about where you want to move.