Please contact your local elected officials, State legislators and Governor Paterson (see contact info below) to voice your objections to devastating New York State by extracting natural gas from the Marcellus/Utica shale by slickwater horizontal hydrofracking. If you add up the environmental costs of extraction, plus the ruination of local agricultural economies, farming and tourism, gas is the filthiest and most expensive energy alternative available, rivaling coal's carbon footprint and negative socioeconomic effects. See the sites below for an instant education about "America's Clean Energy."

Governor Paterson's phone number: 518-474-3890
Governor Paterson's email address: governor@chamber.state.ny.us
Sign the petition: http://www.shaleshock.org/take-action-now/

Visit the sites below for more information.
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  • MAP-Tompkins County (Marcellus Accountability Project for Tompkins County)
    Locations of gas drilling leases in Tompkins county.

  • Shale Shock.org
    Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance is a grassroots group of Finger Lakes residents who are concerned with understanding and protecting our communities and environment from exploitation by the energy industry with regards to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale.
  • Unnatural Gas.org
    One of the most beautiful places in the world and source of drinking water for 5 percent of the US, an area that includes New York State's Southern Tier, the Susquehanna and Upper Delaware river basins, & the Catskill Mountains, is severely threatened by a scale & method of natural gas drilling never seen here before, one that has cut an unhealed swath of destruction through other states.
  • NY Well Watch.org
    News and Information about Marsellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling in the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier.
  • Pro Publica.org - Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat
    Journalism in the public interest featuring news stories such as: EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyoming Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking. Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data. Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Than PA Officials Said. The Science Behind Natural Gas Drilling. Natural Gas Politics. Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling.
  • [video] Ithaca Hearing on Natural Gas Drilling (complete) - TCCOG Website
    Part I and Part II covering all spoken comments, November 19, 2009
  • Adam Law, M.D. writes to Governor Paterson (pdf)
    December 20, 2009
  • If 2% leaks, the CO2 impact of natural gas is the same as burning coal
    Un-Natural Gas Weblog, March 6, 2009
  • [video] Ithaca Hearing on Natural Gas Drilling - WSYR News
    Almost 1000 people packed into the State Theater in Ithaca Thursday night. WSYR News, November 19, 2009
  • [video] Ignitable Drinking Water
    From a well in Candor, NY, located above the Marcellus shale formation, November 9, 2009
  • Traditional Native Leaders: Hydrofracking must be banned
    Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force issues statement against proposed new method of gas drilling.
    Onondaga Nation, November 5, 2009
  • Not too late to demand greener energies
    OpEd piece by Ken Zeserson, Ithaca Journal, October 26, 2009
  • [video] Mythology of Gas Drilling
    Marty Luster interviews Ken Zeserson and Judy Abrams on the side effects and hazards of the current method of gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing (also called fracking and hyrdofracking), which will be used exclusively and extensively throughout the Finger Lakes.
    Recorded August 29, 2009    .
  • [video] Welcome to Gas Drilling in Tompkins County: What the Frack?
    Marty Luster discusses with Ken Zeserson and Judy Abrams the process of fracking shale to extract natural gas and its probable impact on the Finger Lakes area. Recorded July 22, 2009.
  • [video] Natural Gas Drilling in Tompkins County: What the Frack?
    Mark Finkelstein interviews Ken Zeserson and Judy Abrams about the toxicity to drinking water and the environment of the Halliburton-invented natural gas drilling process of hyrdaulic fracturing, which is rapidly spreading throughout New York State with zero oversight by government environmental agencies.
    Recorded August 5, 2009.
  • Catskill Mountain Keeper.org
    The Marcellus Shale, America's next super giant. Photos, images, indepth articles about the fracking process, and many links to additional information.
  • [video] Water Under Attack.com
    When filmmaker Josh Fox learned that natural gas drilling was coming to his hometown in Milanville, PA, as well as to New York's watershed, he got in his car and drove across the US to find out the effects of the recent drilling boom out west. Behind the natural gas PR campaign is a flurry of under-reported disasters: polluted air, undrinkable water and a rising health crisis.
  • [video] Reporter's Notebook: Hydraulic Fracturing
    The ongoing devastation and aftermath of natural gas drilling in Sublet County, Wyoming, and the legislated absolving of the oil companies from environental oversight by government agencies.
  • [video] Hickory, PA • Story
    Manipulation and lies: "Once they [the oil companies] lease your land, it's theirs. And they do as they see fit. They could care less about you. And they could care less about the land. It's just been a total nightmare. It's been one episode after another."
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