Gas Leasing Videos

Bath, NY; June 22, 2009 A Public Forum on the Effects of Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling on Local Water Sources Questions & Answers To embed this segment of the Marcellus Shale Gas Grilling and Water video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

Bath, NY; June 22, 2009 A Public Forum on the Effects of Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling on Local Water Sources In This Segment: Andrew Byers, a farmer/botanist from Newfield who has been studying gas drilling issues, describes how community members who are knowledgeable about these issues can take action. To embed this segment of the Marcellus Shale Gas Grilling and Water video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

Bath, NY; June 22, 2009 A Public Forum on the Effects of Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling on Local Water Sources In This Segment: Steve Penningroth, Executive Director of the state-certified water testing laboratory at the Community Science Institute in Ithaca, describes how to test private and municipal water wells so that landowners and municipal officials can discover problems and have solid scientific baseline water data that will stand up in court should contamination occur. To embed the Marcellus Shale Gas Grilling and Water video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

Bath, NY; June 22, 2009 A Public Forum on the Effects of Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling on Local Water Sources Speakers: Ron Bishop, lecturer in chemistry and biochemistry at SUNY Oneonta, gives an overview of natural gas extraction technology and explain how water contamination can occur during the gas drilling process. Steve Penningroth, Executive Director of the state-certified water testing laboratory at the Community Science Institute in Ithaca, describes how to test private and municipal water wells so that landowners and municipal officials can discover problems and have solid scientific baseline water data that will stand up in court should contamination occur. Andrew Beyers, a farmer/botanist from Newfield who has been studying gas drilling issues, describes how community members who are knowledgeable about these issues can take action. Sponsors: Steuben County Environmental Management Council, Finger Lakes Group of the Sierra Club, League of Women Voters of Steuben County, League of Women Voters of Chemung County, Bath Peace and Justice Group To embed the Marcellus Shale Gas Grilling and Water video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

See all Gas Leasing videos on Essential Dissent. Theo Colborn, PhD (via remote) A world-renowned environmental health analyst, Dr. Colborn is founder of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX). She has testified before Congress on the health affects of natural gas production. She is co-author of Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? To embed the above video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

Broome (NY) Community College; June 15, 2009 Ron Gulla Pennsylvanian Ron Gulla has farmed since he was ten years old. He worked his way through college to get a degree in business administration. He and his wife Laurel have raised two children on their 118-acre farm, where they have had first-hand experience with a well on their property. Don Barber Five-term supervisor of the Town of Caroline, Don Barber grew up on a dairy farm in Danby and still lives on a small farm with his family. He chairs the Tompkins County Council of Governments and also owns a successful residential construction company. Natural Gas Drilling and Local Government Responsibility To Protect the Health, Safety, and Well Being of its Citizens by Don Barber In general local governments need to find ways to insert themselves into a process that the State has written us out of. Potential action steps: 1. Develop overweight vehicle permits and driveway permits to protect your roads and create direct contact/negotiations with the drilling firm. 2. Identify and legislate critical environmental areas (CEA) within your municipality. DEC must then perform site specific SEQR review for permit applications which affect these CEA s 3. Contact every State Legislator, Governor Paterson and his Deputy Secretary for the Environment, and the DEC Commissioner that we need: Notification of permit applications and permits issued; Emergency Services need contact info, hazardous material info, gas fire training; Fuel production tax or Severance tax to create proper revenues to local governments - tax revenue to support DEC oversight program 4. Contact State Legislators requesting that ECL Section 23-0303 be amended so that local governments become involved agencies for SEQR review. And to support S8748 Natural Gas Drilling Prohibition Near Watershed 5. Contact your Congressperson and US Senator to support HR 2766 Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2009. Don Barber- Chair Tompkins County Council of Governments, Supervisor Town of Caroline, 607-539-3395, supervisor@townofcaroline.org To embed the above video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

Broome (NY) Community College; June 15, 2009 To embed the above video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.