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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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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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Koch Sock Puppets Host Albany ClusterFrack

May 30, 2013
Koch Sock Puppets Host Albany ClusterFrack

The “Joint Landowners Coalition of New York,” (pronounced ‘jlcyny’) which once was a wannabe gas leasing consortium, then morphed into potential plaintiff in a threatened “takings” publicity stunt against the State of New York and then devolved into a bunch of fracking Sock Puppets for the Kooky Kochs are hosting a ClusterFrack in Albany. Courtesy of the Kooky Kochs. And no, you’re not invited. Only Shale Charlatans, Frak Flaks and the odd politician looking to pick up a fat envelope. Plus of course the fracking collaborators inside the DEC. http://www.newschannel34.com/news/local/story/Landowners-Allege-Fracking-Myths/oW8RfwoxQ0aJfnexs25Jrg.cspx The panelist include “Rocks for Jocks” Professor Don Siegel, Syracuse University’s very own Frackademic. Who never met a frack he didn’t like. An administrator from a hospital that is heavily subsidized by Cabot Energy as part of that firms “we frack ’em, you fix ’em, but […]

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Moratorium Extension as Lease Extender ?

May 28, 2013
Moratorium Extension as Lease Extender ?

Mike Bernhard sent out some thought-provoking comments on how a blanket moratorium extension on all drilling (if one even got out of committee in the state senate) might cloud the picture of force majeure claims in New York - since the extension bill would expand the moratorium to include vertical low permeability formations - probably because the only way to economically produce such wells would be to frack them horizontally, so a vertical shale well would in all likelihood be a test well for a horizontal completion. So a vertical test for a horizontal completion would be a worthwhile subject for state scrutiny - because it is a precursor to a horizontal well. . . . The controlling case in such claims, Aukema, is based largely on the fact that […]

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Compelled Into A Gas Well with a Bankrupt Norwegian Penny Stock Scam

May 23, 2013
Compelled Into A Gas Well with a Bankrupt Norwegian Penny Stock Scam

Courtesy of the state’s “environmental watchdog.” Only in New York. No other state has a worse record of compelling landowners into gas wells against their wills. None. You’d be better off in Kazakstan. 96% of Norse Energy’s 27 shale gas well permit applications outstanding are non-conforming or incomplete, meaning they will get the State of New York’s “Department of Environmental Conservation” to push some unlucky landowners into their well via compulsory integration - privatized eminent domain for frackers. Then that homeowner gets the “full Norse” treatment of being in a lease against their will. Courtesy of Norse’s fracking accomplices inside the DEC. Particularly since some of these leases abut state land - meaning the state will be integrated into the spacing unit and the well will be drilled next to the state […]

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Libous $hills for $elf ?

May 9, 2013
Libous $hills for $elf ?

Tom Libous’s speciality is carrying water for special interest groups in Albany - notably the frackers. But his favorite special interest group is himself and his family. Including getting his son a job at a fracking lobbying firm: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/sen_libous_on_A1WxoziPGxigFaI5pVibyO Senator Tom Libous is Albany’s top Shale Shill because he’s evidently looking to cash in on some gas leases via his wife’s real estate company. Absolute power may corrupt absolutely, but in Libous’s case, a little goes a long way. Enough to block any fracking legislation in the state senate - a legislative body controlled by the Democrats as of the last election. Who then promptly ceded control of the legislative agenda to a Republican - Libous. The fracker’s bag man in Albany. Which begs the rhetorical question - Why can’t a politician be […]

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