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By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 10:20 pm
The Daily Star reports that Richard Murphy, Democrat of Oneonta, is planning to introduce a bill to ask the state to hold off on hydrofracking until there's more scientific data on its potential risks:
Murphy said he believes that if the state gave... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 19, 2010 - 2:39 pm
For a column published yesterday, Mike Di Paola of Bloomberg News paid a visit to a Sullivan county grandma, Alice Diehl, who helped convince Sullivan County legislators to ban gas drilling on county land.
Breathing is Political's Liz Bucar, who attended... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 2:04 pm
In the Wall Street Journal today: a sharp look at the process of cementing oil wells in offshore drilling operations. Some experts think that faulty cementing could be behind the recent BP disaster that killed 11 and is spilling 5,000 barrels of oil a day... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 12:48 pm
Normally the month of April, or “mud season,” as it is affectionately known, is relatively quiet in the high peaks region. The ski centers close down, many of the restaurant owners and innkeepers shut their doors for a few weeks to seek out warmer and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 1:56 pm
If he runs for re-election, state senator John Bonacic will face at least two challengers this fall, in a race that is shaping up to be a referendum on natural-gas drilling in the region (which Bonacic emphatically supports).
Sullivan County legislator... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 11:15 am
Reactions to the DEC's announcement last week are still ricocheting around the watershed. The Daily Freeman published an editorial today that endorsed the new regs, WAMC ran a long radio piece on Monday about the issue, and the directors of Schoharie... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2010 - 12:49 pm
An incisive editorial from the Times Herald-Record about why the DEC's Friday decision to make it tough for gas drilling in NYC's watershed means that drilling elsewhere in New York state is now inevitable:
The city, with all its lawyers, money and clout... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 5:24 pm
The New York Times story on the DEC's recent announcement on gas drilling, posted this morning, has been beefed up with some more reporting since then. Here's DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis baldly admitting that the DEC's goal was to tread the narrow path... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 4:24 pm
The DEC's announcement that it will make gas drilling in NYC's watershed extremely difficult drew a statement from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg this afternoon:
The portions of the Marcellus Shale where the City’s watershed lies must be treated differently... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 12:50 pm
The DEC's announcement that their road map for gas drilling in New York State doesn't apply to New York City's watershed caught us by surprise. (See our ongoing coverage here.) Looks like they called a bunch of beat reporters to break the story:... Read more
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