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Lenape’s Publicity Stunt

November 28, 2012

Lenape Resources has made good on their threat to sue the DEC. They just don’t say why exactly. Nor is it clear from reading their complaint. Plus they are claiming damages for voluntarily turning off their own wells. (Why didn’t I ever think of that when gas prices were down ?) And damages for all the money they might have made prospecting for dry shale gas at the fringe of the Marcellus and Utica, if they had new permits to do so - from the DEC - who they just sued. Makes sense, right ? As a fracking publicity stunt. Lenape’s attorney, Michael Joy, who is neither a real estate nor a land use lawyer, has evidently not bothered to read the Dryden, Middlefield, or Binghamton decisions (which are not even […]

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Dryden Rent-a-Plaintiff DOA

November 8, 2012

The Rent-A-Plaintiff in Anschutz v Dryden , Norse Energy, a gas prospector in New York, is functionally comatose as of Q4 2012. Which means one of two things: either frack flak Tom West has to wheel them to the appellate court on a gurney with an IV full of fracking flowback stuck in their arm, or he will have to find yet another plaintiff (with a pulse) in order to perfect an appeal against in Dryden. Can’t be Gastem, they’re history. Could be Johnny Hole Co. - their bullying threats to the DEC certainly fit the pattern. Mike “Road Kill” Knapp’s fracking company might be suitably disreputable. Then the frackers will need to find another spokesfracker to replace Dennis “The Fracking Menace” Holbrook. My vote is for Susan Dorsey as the new Face of Fracking in New York. She knows sign […]

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Frackers: “Cuomo’s On Our Leash”

October 11, 2012
Frackers: "Cuomo's On Our Leash"

Fracking Evangelist Brian Conover, of the Church of the Holy Shale, who serves as Press Agent for fracking shill Susan Dorsey is now dissing Governor Cuomo, saying the frackers have him on a long leash. Fracking Evangelist Brian Conover, who worships corporations and who refers to Governor Cuomo as “Him”, capital “H”, an honorific normally used for God, has now bitch-slapped Cuomo publicly: Krueger: Nobody puts Cuomo on a leash Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:26 pm by Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief in Andrew Cuomo, Hydrofracking It’s not exactly “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” but that’s the message of a statement from state Sen. Liz Krueger in response from a quote from Reverend Brian Conover of the Joint Landowners Coalition, a pro-hydrofracking group. (Note: the Joint Landowners Coalition has already bailed on Susan Dorsey’s Rent-a-Rally) Conover was quoted by Bloomberg News’ […]

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Holy Fracking Rent-a-Rally

October 10, 2012

Turns out Holy Frack Front is just another fracking Rent-a-Rally, where ringers are bussed in, fed, etc. to insure turnout at professionally staged gas industry PR events. Surprise. This time with the ecclesiastical blessing of the Church of the Holy Shale who exhort their flock to “Man Up” to confront “Him” - in exchange for a box lunch, free round trip to Albany and some donuts. Fracking Evangelist Rev. Brian Conover exhorts his flock on behalf of the landmen, fracking shills and charlatans : Dear CNY Friends: This Rally in Albany is happening at the most critical time in our four and a half year existence as a coalition. This is the time when NY needs a true leader who can support the DEC and “Man Up” to the challenges at hand. This is the time […]

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Holy Fracking Front !

September 30, 2012

Update: The JLCNY are not listed as sponsors of this clusterfrack. Rent-a-Rally organizer Susan Dorsey salutes the crowd below in preparation for the big clusterfrack. Ms. Dorsey and her gas hole buddy Frackman are evidently trying to organize this fracking fiasco. Fracking Evangelist Rev. Brian Conover handles PR for her. A fitting role for a minister of the Holy Shale.                   The Church of the Holy Shale is having a HolyFrackFest. Or maybe not . . . Landowner Advocates of New York is proud and pleased to announce plans for a rally to be held in Albany on Monday, October 15, 2012. With your help, this will be the biggest mass demonstration that our state capital has ever seen! Maybe not. There is no such organization as […]

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Frackers Freaking Out

August 31, 2012

Frackers are freaking out because the DEC may not issue the regs. by the end of the summer. Which is today. . . . . Because the Governor didn’t want the legislature to be in Albany when the frack hit the fan. As the Governor told the frackers. Nice try. Did not work out that way, for obvious reasons: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/the-inevitable-slow-path-to-fracking-in-new-york/ Guess what ? There is there is no fracking rush in New York to issue some half baked regulations. Because there is no economic reason to drill a shale gas well in New York. Not before fracking Labor Day. Not right after fracking Labor Day. Not this year, not the next. Even Cuomo understands that. . . But according to some freaked-out frackers : This is an URGENT CALL TO ACTION! We need your immediate assistance. Despite […]

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The Fracking Minority

August 28, 2012

New study out on Upstate New Yorker’s attitudes about fracking. The study is a collaborative effort by Madison County Citizens for Safe Energyand the Upstate Institute at Colgate University. http://www.scribd.com/doc/104212609/Upstate-Fracking-Survey The results mirror every other Upstate regional and local poll on fracking : Most people don’t want to be fracked. Not by Chesapeake, not by Norse Energy, not by nobody. No surprise there, since most people in Upstate have little upside in getting fracked - they don’t own enough land to play the shale gas lotto nor do they own a trailer park that caters to transient workers. But they may own a house near a road or depend on a shallow water well. Or live next to land that has been leased. So they have little or no economic upside. But they have a clear economic, environmental and quality of life downside. And […]

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Home Rule applies to Fracksylvania frackers

July 26, 2012
Home Rule applies to Fracksylvania frackers

Pennsylvania court strikes down the provisions of Act 13 that gutted local land protections. In a 4-3 opinion, the PA Commonwealth Court sided with the people and local communities of Pennsylvania by striking down large portions of Act 13 - a law passed in February at Chesapeakes’s behest which severely restricted the ability of local communities to use their home rule powers to protect housing and water wells from shale gas industrialization. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued a 4-3 decision striking down the heart of Act 13-the provisions that preempted municipal land use ordinances. http://www.pacourts.us/OpPosting/Cwealth/out/284MD12_7-26-12.pdf. The Commonwealth Court voted 4-3 that 58 Pa Code Section 3304 and the provisions enforcing it violate substantive due process protections in the Pennsylvania and US Constitutions. The provisions restricted the authority of local governments to […]

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We trust the DEC = We trust Chesapeake

July 23, 2012

“Frack Us” resolutions put towns at risk because they rely on regulations that were written by Chesapeake. For Chesapeake, not the town. The DEC just takes notes. 1. The DEC cannot protect any roads. The DEC is not empowered to protect town roads, county roads, or state roads.[1] The protection of town roads is totally up to the town, not the county, not the state.[2] If the town fails to enact a road use ordinance, the taxpayers will be obligated to pay to repair damage done by frack trucks,[3] the drillers are not liable for such repairs, absent a town ordinance. 2. The DEC will not protect homes, businesses or water supplies. The DEC’s set backs of a gas well from structures and water supplies is the worst in the United States.[4] The DEC’s […]

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Most Residents Don’t Benefit From Fracking

July 21, 2012

In a recent study done by Penn State, researchers discovered that the majority of residents in rural Pennsylvania will not benefit from shale gas exploration - because they do not own enough land to lease - and they are unlikely to find jobs working as transient laborers on oil rigs. And in Pennsylvania, absent local ordinances, the majority of voters are disenfranchised: they don’t have enough land to participate in the shale gas lottery, they are not likely to find employment on rigs, and they can’t vote about it - since the state has deprived them of local land use protections. Congratulations. Welcome to Fracksylvania. http://www.scribd.com/doc/100688155/Leases-Can-t-Vote Some of the study’s conclusions: “A little less than forty percent of the land area within these eleven counties is owned by non-residents (including the […]

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