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LNG: It’s A Fracking Blast !

September 27, 2013
LNG: It's A Fracking Blast !

Finally, some news coverage on the DEC’s proposal to permit LNG facilities next to your local church, synagogue or day care center. Because there is nothing in the DEC’s proposed regs. to not permit an LNG storage or refueling facility next to anything. No setbacks, no nothing. And then watch as the local fire department tries to put it out when it goes boom in the night. http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/09/24/cuomo-attempts-an-end-run-on-lng/ Adding liquefied natural gas stations in NY draws DEC support, despite deadly 1973 blast Print By The Associated Press Follow on Twitter on September 26, 2013 at 10:59 PM, updated September 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM ALBANY, N.Y. — New York regulators proposed rules Thursday that would allow new storage and truck fueling stations for liquefied natural gas to be built in the state […]

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Cuomo’s End Run on LNG

September 24, 2013
Cuomo's End Run on LNG

After taking a public caning on their still-born “fracking regulations” the Cuomo Administration has learned its lesson: Go undercover. Or in the case of LNG export terminals - trivialize the review process by handing it off to the most obscure group inside the DEC - the “Remediation” team - ie. the clean-up squad. Which, in the event of an LNG terminal disaster, would be the guys in the yellow HAZMAT suits picking up char-broiled body parts. By playing the Obscurity Card, Cuomo is avoiding the larger debate: Why export American gas overseas in the first place ? And why from New York ? And if New York, where ? Oyster Bay ? Is New York to be a dumping ground of frackwaste and pipelines so that some petro-oligarchs can make a […]

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Frackers Dictate “Rules” to DEC

September 21, 2013
Frackers Dictate "Rules" to DEC

Tearing up big chunks of America to export gas overseas strikes me as pretty 3rd World. A bit petro-oligarchic. If there is any doubt about who is pushing this (hint: rhymes with crackers) or why (hint: rhymes with funny), just read what they have drafted as “regulations” for LNG facilities in New York. New York’s proposed LNG permitting rules were written by the frackers. That’s clear from just skimming them. There are virtually no requirements on siting - no setbacks from residences or other businesses, no venting limitations, and comically dinky permit fees. The frackers dictated some fluff to their accomplices inside the DEC. Imagine that. New York is shaping up to be kind of a backwater dump zone for fracking. Where Fracksylvania gets rid of its frack waste - […]

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Stepford Shale Ladies Tea Party

September 18, 2013
Stepford Shale Ladies Tea Party

“The Empire Energy Forum” - is the New York State version of a Washington DEC fracking front group that is cloned locally to put a happy face on fracking. Dory got the goods on them months ago: http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/03/27/natural-gas-energy-forum-clones/ The local clones, aka The Stepford Shale Ladies are throwing a tea party in Syracuse, hosted by Karen Moreau. With “special guest guy” Greg Sovas, a former DEC employee, now full time fracking shill, who, while at the DEC, conveniently lost all the comments on the previous revamp of the GEIS. And, upon retirement, gave an affidavit in the Dryden and Middlefield Home Rule cases where he recalled a telephone conversation with a dead man. That Greg Sovas. He’s the token guy shill . . . http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/10/11/how-much-are-frackers-paid-to-lie/ Hosted by Karen “Mushrooms” Moreau, the new Bag Lady […]

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Dryden Moot Court

September 10, 2013
Dryden Moot Court

The Albany Law School is sponsoring what reads like a Moot Court on the Dryden case. Meaning some of the lawyers involved are going to argue the case - again - for an audience at The Albany Law School. Ostensibly for the purpose of arguing the case. Again. In front of a live audience. Not a court of law. Watch Deborah Goldberg rip Tom West a new one. For the ninth time. Sounds like fun. Some of the lawyers that are not involved in either case - notably the gas industry lobbyist Karen Moreau- are ostensibly going to discuss what would/should/might happen if Dryden is / is not upheld. (If not upheld TSWHTF). Elizabeth Radow will explain what would happen if Home Rule does not apply to gas wells: you can kiss your mortgage […]

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“Takings” Publicity Stunt

September 5, 2013
"Takings" Publicity Stunt

Or how to shake down some gullible landowners into paying some lawyers to pretend like they have a lawsuit. The New York Joint Landowners Coalition of New York - JLCNY ( a Koch Sock Puppet front group) has issued yet another summary about their proposed lawsuit against the state of New York - wherein they must prove at trial that “the state has deprived them of all economic use of their property.” Simply because the state regulators are still in the process of reviewing the proposed regulations for one type of oil and gas well - which has never been drilled in the state, and which has proven problematic elsewhere - namely high water volume hydraulically fractured horizontal wells, (HVHF). Good fracking luck with that. For a couple of three obvious reasons: 1. They […]

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Fish Fracking: Frack and Release

September 1, 2013
Fish Fracking: Frack and Release

Fish are really easy to kill. They are pretty much stuck in the water, like a captive audience. So anything that goes into the water can kill them. Fracking works just fine - not as quick or as dramatic as dynamite, not as painless (?) as electro-shocking, but it gets the job done, thanks. So if you have too many damn trout near you - such as a stream in the Catskills - let some frackers come take care of them for you. (Of course no fracking rocket scientist would actually try to frack next to a trout stream in the Catskills would they ?) Get reel . . . In New York, there are no proposed protections for fracking next to or indeed right under a trout-infested stream. Or a walleye-infested […]

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How to Frack a Grouse

September 1, 2013
How to Frack a Grouse

“Z A G A T A” is evidently Spanish for “shill.” Mike Zagata wrote a bit of fracking propaganda as an Op Ed and, his summary bio is given as “a former state Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner, Ruffed Grouse Society president and oil company executive.” If those three titles strike you as a bit incongruous - game bird preservationist, state environmental agency executive and energy executive - you have not been reading this blog very closely. “Ruffed Grouse Soceity” ? Really ? Not the “Unruffled Grouse Society” ? Guess what - the “Ruffed Grouse Society” has been effectively bought by Chesapeake - as a fracking front group. Is nothing sacred ? Not even ruffed fracking grouse ? http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/09/11/chesapeake-energy-hiding-in-the-bushes/ And what the frack is a former New York “environmental commissioner” doing shilling for […]

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Seismic Crews: Trespass & Blast

September 1, 2013
Seismic Crews: Trespass & Blast

New York has no regulations on how seismic tests - using thumper trucks or explosive - can be conducted, or for that matter where they can be conducted, or when they can be conducted, etc. - in the language of some of the seismic crews, New York’s regs. are “Nada” http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/06/07/no-seismic-blast-test-regs-in-new-york-state/ Which means that a seismic crew can shoot explosive charges off just about anywhere they can get permission - or, in some cases not get permission. Unless a town bans it or otherwise passes an ordinance to regulate the practice. The setbacks in other states might be a place to start: http://www.scribd.com/doc/84415417/Non-Existent-New-York-Seismic-Regulations But would not copy Fracksylvania - where the seismic crews simply trespass and blast whenever wherever they can get away with it. By CASEY JUNKINS - Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / […]

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NY Supremes To Hear Home Rule Appeal

August 29, 2013
NY Supremes To Hear Home Rule Appeal

Leave for appeal has been granted for the New York high court to hear the appeal of the plaintiffs in the Dryden and Middlefield Home Rule cases. By agreeing to hear the case, the Supremes have signaled that this matter, which has been thoroughly adjudicated at four trial courts and one appellate court, has become an increasingly political matter, upon which they want the final say. http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisions/2013/Aug13/DecisionList082913.pdf The legal issues have already been scrutinized in considerable detail by 5 courts. Eight (8) New York justices have decided in favor of Home Rule. Four (4) trial courts - Middlefield, Avon, Binghamton and Dryden - and the unanimous opinion of the four appellate judges. So, in order to bring final closure to the matter, the state’s high court is going to hear the […]

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