Rally for Truth and Energy, Rally for Natural Gas in Albany, October 15
Fred Peckham
Delaware County Landowner
Landowners are gathering from across New York and the DRBC region of Pennsylvania to rally in Albany on October 15 and tell Governor Cuomo they support natural gas development. Will you be there?
We, along with fellow residents from across New York and across the river in Pennsylvania, waiting for New York and the Delaware River Basin Commission to pass regulations and allow natural gas development will be gathering in Albany on October 15 for a rally. Let me tell you a little about why it is so important those of us from the silent majority attend.
Why rally in Albany?
The purpose of our society is not for the few of maximum strength and ambition to lead lives of Byzantine glory, but for men to make the most of their common humanity. We are pledged to a general diffusion of culture, of independence, and self-respect and the means to a good life. – Dr. Smith Boughton, alias “Big Thunder”
Its been over four years since New York put natural gas development on hold and what have we to show for it: more delays, an increase in the poverty rate, tax sales on properties and higher unemployment. New York landowners are being deprived of their constitutional right to develop their resources, being denied jobs and New York State is missing out on much needed tax income. The science that the governor promised he would use to determine whether or not natural gas development happens has turned political. There are 38 states that enjoy the benefits of natural gas development, but New York is not one of them nor will it be in the near future if the anti-natural gas development groups get their way.
These groups are a well-organized and highly financed minority special interest using paid employees for lobbying in Albany and they have seemed to gain the ear of the governor. They have used misrepresentation and fear to drive this discourse even though the science says otherwise, and our rights as landowner are being trampled because of it.
We have come come to the end of our rope having patiently waited for 4+ years for Albany to decide. Without development many landowners and farmers in particular will languish, losing their farms and lands to the sheriff’s sale, land that in some cases has been in families for generations.
Its time we the landowners come to the realization that the few who have advocated for the many is just not enough. It’s time for majority to show Governor Cuomo that we are a silent political force to be reckoned with, that we will not allow the minority and their misrepresented information to dictate what we can do with our land when science is on our side. The time has come to show Albany and our politicians that the silent majority will not be silent anymore, we will be heard.
This rally is one of the most important events to come along since the Anti-Rent Wars in the 1840’s, our last chance to be heard, and a chance to show governor Cuomo that we do matter and we vote, and will not be denied our rights as tax paying landowners anymore.
The delay announced by the DEC is just another ploy to placate these anti development groups and with it dashing the hopes for a better economic life for our children and dreams of financial security, jobs and an end to economic hardship for local residents and landowners who have lived in poverty for far too long, being denied the economic opportunity afforded others.
Will we sit back and let a small group of well funded anti-drilling groups control our destiny or will we stand up in mass at Albany and let the governor know that we will be heard and will not allow our rights to be trampled?
And for those PA property owners who are in the Delaware River Basin and think they’re not effected, as New York goes so goes the DRBC.
Join us for the Truth and Energy Rally on October 15, a rally for landowners to be heard and our rights respected for a cleaner energy tomorrow.
For additional information and to sign up for the Landowner Rally at Albany go to www.landowneradvocatesny.org
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Thanks I am going and bringin 21 friends
thanks Fred for putting the situation in so many sincere words. Time’s up Albany!
Sign up for buses on the LANY site: landowneradvocatesny.org
If you are driving, we start at 10:30 at the Corning Preserve Riverfront Park and conclude at 1:30.
See you all there!
Here’s some Nat gas drilling reality for all you Pro gassers .taken Thursday morning 10/4 12 Le raysville ,PA. Bradford county .Houses 800 – 1000 feet away .No regulations to stop this . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ90A2gMOJ4&feature=player_embedded
Houses 800-1,000 feet away and it lasts a total of 7-8 days – a fact you folks never admit. But, you’re much closer than, aren’t you, Bill? Maybe even trespassing?
There is an immediate and present long term threat on the people of the world including the USA. Vera Scruggins and other anti gas opponents that sensationalize misinformation through video, capturing what may be a silica cloud mixed with a early morning fog bank can not argue these facts as presented. These facts argue exactly why we should increase natural gas drilling. They are not my facts but facts from Government agencies that are also repeated by environmental watchdogs. I would gladly live next to a fracking well for a week then 500 miles of a coal fired power plant. Anti yet gas using opponents against drilling in my opinion are the worse thing that can be happening to our environment aside from a possible nuclear war The first link is a coal power plant that happens 3651/4 days a year unlike the video the anti’s show which last maybe a few minutes to 6 days.
http://vimeo.com/8756755 Compare this to Bill Ferullo video and keep in mind that wind and solar will not fix either problem for at least 50 more years
This is a compilation of timelapse videos I shot during December of 2009 and January of 2010. The music was taken from the trailer for Kubric’s “The Shining”. This is a Mid American Energy power station: located south of Council Bluffs Iowa.
Approximately 52% of the United States’ electricity is generated using coal as fuel. Coal is abundant and relatively inexpensive, but it also contains a large number of impurities.
Coal contains trace quantities of the naturally-occurring radionuclides uranium and thorium, as well as their radioactive decay products, and potassium-40. When coal is burned, minerals, including most of the radio nuclidesopponets , do not burn and concentrate in the ash.
While most of the ash is captured, tiny solid particles known as “fly ash,” including some radionuclides, escape from the boiler into the atmosphere. Current regulations focus on using control technology to reduce the amount of fly ash that escapes including most radioactive particles, and on proper disposal of the fly ash.COAL ASH IS 500 TIMES MORE RADIOACTIVE THEN THE MARCELLUS!
Coal-fired power plants release more toxic air pollutants such as arsenic and lead than any other U.S. industrial pollution source, says a report Tuesday by the American Lung Association.
The report comes as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2011
Health Study on coal:
“Power plant pollution kills people,” Connor said, citing a recent estimate that it causes 13,000 deaths each year. “It threatens the brains and nervous system of children. It can cause cancer, heart attacks and strokes.”
The ALA report says some plants use readily available technologies to control toxic emissions, but more need to do so. It says more than 400 plants in 46 states spew 386,000 tons of 84 separate hazardous air pollutants. It adds:
Their emissions threaten the health of people who live near these plants, as well as those who live hundreds of miles away. Despite the concentration of these plants largely in the Midwest and Southeast, their toxic emissions threaten the air in communities nationwide.
The process of burning coal releases chemicals into the atmosphere that threaten not only the air Americans breathe, but the water they drink, the soil they live on and the food they eat. EPA classifies many of these chemicals as “hazardous air pollutants” or “air toxics,” a category that means they are known or reasonably expected to harm human health or the environment or both. Hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants include:
• Acid gases, such as hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride;
• Benzene, toluene and other compounds;
• Dioxins and furans;
• Formaldehyde;
• Lead, arsenic, and other metals;
• Mercury;
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH); and
• Radioactive materials, like radium and uranium.
The report summarizes a technical analysis of coal-burning plant emissions prepared for the Lung Association by Environmental Health & Engineering Inc.
sources http://www.epa.gov/radtown/coal-plant.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/03/coal-power-plants-air-pollution/1
What’s particularly sad–yet laughable–is that to get any sort of rally up off the ground your guys have to bribe people to be there by making their signs for them, offering them a free box lunch, donuts and coffee, and even making a rally for fracking something God would support! Seriously, how desperate Are you guys?
From Rev Brian Conover:
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 when NY needs a leader with vision and the ability to run concurrent studies to bring a swift and decisive conclusion to this drilling debate that is dividing NY citizens. And sadly, this is the time when Governor Cuomo is playing politics with the issue of drilling.
Translation: “Man Up” for a free meal and free bus ride on a workday.
The Governor’s nonchalant attitude toward the hardships of Upstate NY is nauseating and can no longer be tolerated! Cuomo gives the impression that this debate will linger indefinitely and he will continue to delay if we don’t stand together to let Him know how passionate we are for our rights as landowners.
“Him“, capital “H” is used to refer to the Lord, ie. Jesus Christ or God. Not the governor of a state.
WE WILL MAKE IT EASY FOR YOU!
The Rally will be only a couple hours long and will occur in the middle of the day. Busses are leaving from all over the state to help cut down on your expenses.Donuts and a boxed lunch will be provided for all who ride the busses.”
Wow. NO, really, WOW! Does it not occur to you that if you have to go to THESE lengths to get people to show up for one of your pro-gas events that they may just be showing up for a nice bus ride and the free food?
AS for coal–Thank you Victor Furman for this valuable information. Now if you could just be honest about the similarly gut-wrenching facts about fracking, then perhaps we could all get on with the pursiit of renewables and conservation. here’s a fact: There are no EXTRACTION energies that can be pursued safely. The Big Energy record makes that clear. Moreover, safety is the last thing on the minds of these profiteers. The Big Energy record makes THAT clear too. There also are no extraction resources that are not going to run out–soon. So……we fail to pursue renewables at our own peril. We fail to reimagine our lives and cultures via significant conservation at our own peril.
Wendy Lynne Lee
Lot’s of hateful stuff in your original, Wendy, and if you keep that up, we’re not approving any part of your posts.