Senator Carlucci and IDC Introduce Legislation Requiring New York State Health Commissioner, DEC to Examine Results of Pending, Independent Health Studies Before Taking Action on Hydrofracking
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New York State Politics at its finest. Fill my pockets and I will do your bidding!! New health studies with no relevance to New York, so what! JLCpulse
Federal and State-Level Studies Demonstrate Need for Further Analysis; Legislation Calls for Up to 24 Months of Additional Review
TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 5, 2013 – 12:30 PM – Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) will announce legislation that calls for suspending hydrofracking in New York State to accommodate the review of three new public health-related studies. He will be joined by members of the Independent Democratic Conference and statewide environmental organizations.
Only recently has the scientific community across the country begun to examine the possible harmful health risks associated with the release of fracturing fluid and methane into the environment. Officials will argue that there is not sufficient data available to make a policy decision in New York at this time. The announcement comes at a critical moment as the New York State Commissioner of Health weighs his own public health review of the revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, or SGEIS.
WHO:
Senator David Carlucci
Senator David Valesky
Senator Diane Savino
Roger Downs, Atlantic Chapter Conservation Director, Sierra Club
Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
Sarah Eckel, Legislative & Policy Director, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Kate Hudson, Watershed Program Director, Riverkeeper
Katherine Nadeau, Water and Natural Resources Program Director, Environmental Advocates of New York
Julia Walsh, Campaign Director, Frack Action
Ramsay Adams, Executive Director, Catskill Mountainkeeper
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Comments
every Democratic politician in NY and even a few turncoat GOP's want gas drilling banished from NY permanently. this despite decades of virtually accident free production here, an economic renaissance next door in PA, and a clear pro-shale message sent to Albany in the last regional election. downstate, and upstate cities- all massive energy consumers, have no ethical problem with treating rural landowners with criminal contempt.
they have a cadre of wealthy activist attorneys who are chomping at the bit to shackle the Southern Tier from their Manhattan offices.
two more YEARS of bogus moratorium/study? cuomo, silver, rfk and that lot are running NYS like it's their own private club.
All your comments reflect the feelings of frustration and outrage of many of the people in NY.
But we have to find a way to FIGHT BACK against these blatant offenses to our rights!
We need to gather, sit down and discuss our options and set a course! AND we need to find someone with clout and fame to band with us to win our rights back!
Cuomo is seeing none of our letters, and hearing none of our phone calls, because they are being read and sorted by members of his "staff".
i.e., thrown in the trash and erased!!
The weather will soon be getting better. We need to converge on Albany in LARGE numbers to get our point across! Contact other states' officials where fracking is already being done, and ask for help, anything, but sitting on our butts and doing nothing!!!
We are not helpless, we have resources, we must use them, NOW!!!