Tom Shepstone, EID Marcellus Campaign Director Joe Massaro, EID Marcellus Field Director
Yoko Ono sends a message to Governor Cuomo on natural gas, seen here blended with another popular video from this woman with the strange clothing line. It reveals the total absurdity of New York State politics where political correctness trumps science and facts.
Good thing this lady has a $500 million inherited nest egg to live off. It would all be hilarious except for the fact this individual apparently exercises influence in New York, as this picture of her with Tony Ingraffea with his peer review panel demonstrates:
And so it goes in New York, one of the hardest places in the world to understand.
Governor Andrew Cuomo flew into Binghamton last week. Natural gas supporters gathered to tell him upstate New Yorker's want natural gas development in New York State and want it now!
Governor Andrew Cuomo journeyed to Binghamton last week to discuss economic development, something the Southern Tier could use and that natural ...
Sondra Bauernfeind
Retired Schoolteacher, Sullivan County, New York
The following is a letter I recently sent our Governor, Andrew Cuomo in an appeal for action to address Sullivan County, New York's long pressing economic development crisis. I offer it in the hope others will also write him and share their sentiments as well. The time ...
Jeff Heller
Chairman, Steuben County Land Owners Coalition
I recently wrote this letter to Governor Cuomo, as New York sits waiting to hear when natural gas development using high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing will be allowed within our borders.
Governor Cuomo,
I am the chairman of the Steuben County Land Owners Coalition PAC, and ...
Kimberly More
Otego, New York, Farmer and Landowner
One landowner, Kimberly More, is fed up with waiting for Governor Cuomo to make a decision on natural gas development in New York. She recently wrote to him to explain her sentiments, shared with countless others across Upstate, about the ongoing situation and delays.
We ...
Dr. Charlie Carpenter
Vestal Gas Coalition
Dear Governor Cuomo:
Our local paper reported there will be further delays in starting natural gas exploration in the Marcellus Shale. The reason given was that a committee could not meet a November 1st dead line. Developing the natural gas industry has to be done right but continued delay ...
Holy freak, Now I know we have it made! Who in their right mind would listen to such garbage? It is now a toss up between her and Vera! I can honestly say in all my years I have never, never ever seen anything this disturbing and utterly repulsive! Great I hope they come out with a few more bonehead ideas like this.Oh and by the way this is the severely hi IQ BUNCH? yee hah If Governor Cuomo falls for this, we all better head out of dodge!!
who could say no to someone from PA named Craig Stevens who on the Bob Joseph radio show just a few weeks ago called Governor Cuomo a stupid Mongoloid
who could say no to tens of thousands of NYkers wanting to access their minerals
Who could say no to Vera Scruggins with her lady like pleas
Who could say no to Comrade Stiengraber who thought it was OK to indoctrinate children through fear.
Who could say no to thousands of new jobs, prosperity returning to upstate NY
Who…. “Cuomo”…. the Governor who promised science not fear and emotion and if he says no on Wednesday and I think he will… he will have went back on his word and let the politics and polls ruin the day,the lives, of thousands but we will not sit by as we the landowners will sue……A Taken’s
And Vera calls Phelim a freak? Sheesh! When you have to resort to a screeching no-talent (dare I say?) FREAK, you know the antis are getting desperate. Still, our governor seems more infatuated with the celebrities than with keeping his word regarding science being the final word.
It is amazing to me that when the message is clear you attack the messenger. How juvenille to comment on the way people dress you have fallen to a new level of reporting. The fact is the process of extracting natural gas by HVSW- the relatively new technology- (despite the half truth of the industry)- is damaging aquifers- some of which are direct drinking water aquifers of the people of Pennsylvania- for instance: Max Chilson, the Mannings, the Hallowich’s, McMickens, Phillips and countless others that the industry has not owned up to responsibility for. They are damaging the aquifers, air and soil of the Commonwealth. They damage it through spills, drilling, fracturing, maintenance. The question is who has the right to decide whose aquifer is expendable and just how many acts of damage is it going to take for it to stop until they can prove that it will not continue to cause damage? and yes Tom and Vic these people I list above are all facts and there are many more. So don’t start talking about supplying facts because you both know it is true. You and the industry need to grow up and accept responsibility for your actions.
There needs to be an assessment of what the damage will cost us to clean up. The reason this has not been done is because the industry has prevented it. The only logical reason for not wanting an assessment is that they are worried about the outcome. An assessment still needs to be done, because we do not need to leave our children and grandchildren with the burdens to clean up our mess because we did not take the appropriate precautions. Haven’t we learned from our past?
Shoot the messenger. Anyone who constantly states false information as it is true should be confronted. We are so tired of hearing the misinformation campaign and from millionaire hollywood elitist spreading the work of Not in My Backyard. If Yoko had one inch of wanting to really help the environment it would have happened in a different forum maybe putting money in National Forest or Wildlife foundations. She chose the Gasland propaganda machine and her reason is clear as she said it her self she does not want a pipeline near her home in Sullivan County. Her other Millionaire friends who choose to live in the city and travel to country for weekend getaways may have to experience a few inconveniences perhaps a water truck or some traffic of a line at the diner feeding hungry rig crews. Whatever its not because her environment will be destroyed its an inconvenience to them that is the bottom line.
Where pray tell is there a single water well that has been contaminated by fracking. I raise this question in every forum and all the Antis can do is talk about gas and other petrochemicals that were already in the ground when the water wells were dug into these shallow deposits. This has nothing to do with fracking which is usually a mile deeper.
In fact some areas have been seeping these gasses and chemicals into surface water for millions of years. The Indians showed the colonists these seeps and that is how the petroleum industry started in this country.
But, it hasn’t, Bill. You want to have it both ways. You want to say hydraulic fracturing is inherently dangerous when the facts clearly show otherwise and then when confronted with those facts you turn around and say “Oh, I meant the whole process of batural gas development.” Where did you learn your logic?
Also, I’m deleting every post you make that includes unsupported links. You can post the link to that article about the CHK fine as many times as you want, but it’s not going up unless you tie it to something and allow for a reasoned discussion of what it means or doesn’t mean. We don’t do links by themselves.
Tom my post of the Chesapeake fine was tied to JamesSmaces post about it .Trying to prove that there are cases and now this one has NO non disclosure (any others will follow from this .Again to make it clear to all of you on this site “the word game of fracking doesn’t cause contamination is just that ” issues can happen from the whole process drilling through fracking ……drilling also causes disturbances .You can delete anything you want here if you want .Just shows me you pick your answers to your articles …and my logic is pretty direct .If you want me to get more into details I will .Sometimes I just want to make a point .
Don’t waste too much time debating on this website. It’s designed to cheer lead and to some degree, keep informed folks like yourself busy answering the childish – and often deliberately hurtful – postings. It’s somewhat amazing that the EID website hasn’t take a swipe at Yoko Ono’s ethnicity. Perhaps that’s next.
By All means don’t waste your time here when you can be in 1st grade classes all over the country telling children that progress is evil and the world will soon catch fire unless you draw a cartoon for Cuomo.Or you could attend PTA meetings instructing teachers to give extra credit to students who write negative things about drilling not based on science, but the hyprocrisy and opinion of Sandra Stiengrabber using her credientals as the magic wand of indoctrination.
Haven’t we learned from our past? Yes we have Carolyn Knapp! it’s why we shouldn’t even consider your cloudy view of what you call facts. Ever live near a coal fired power plant…? I have! So you take your so called facts to the thousands upon thousands of “real victims” both young and old of coal fired powerplants and your propaganda to a NYRAD meeting where you all feed off of each other because I don’t now or ever will buy into your story.
To Miss Knapp; another point is the mining industry for coal extraction has 100′s of fatalities globally every year, with many in the US. How many have occurred while drilling for gas, most years NONE!. Oh wait, the Binghamton Press went to town last year over the one fatality that occurred in West Virginia. I didn’t know they had a subscriber base there.
@ Vic F….I lived in an industrial area for 28 yrs .It had all sorts of plants .It was near the Exxon refinery in NJ ,also chemical plants, coke manufacturing plant ,and many other industrial polluters .This is why I’m strongly against the heavy industrialization I see from NG drilling that has come to NEPA .I tell it like it is Heavy industry exactly what it is .Also it’s not temporary because it moves from place to place in the general area ….you want pollution and money move to northern NJ .They have plenty to go around .
Mam, young lady, first off its the way the message and or messages are put forth. Honestly a women pretending to have sexual pleasure, displeasure or what ever you want to call it! Really do u want your children to watch, witness such a act, let alone grown ups? Lets face it if just one person on are side remotely did something of this nature we would be crucified! We could argue about aquifers till the cows come home, the so called problems that are constantly brought up is a particle of sand on the beaches of life so to speak! We no longer live in cave’s and die at the ripe old age of 16, we now have a life expectancy of 80 years of age! Because of progress, new technology medical advances, and the drugs (medical) that is to live a longer pain free life!. So next time you flush your toilet (with the leftover drug byproducts from your body, the cleaning fluids you dump down your drain, leftover paint, paint thinners,varnishes, glue and everything else u use to beautify your house think for a minute? Hey that’s right into my septic system and or cesspool in most (rural)cases. Unless you live in a city environment, yep u got one! Yep right above all our aquifers! Sometimes within 30 ‘ of water well (even though 100′ is minimum), now times this by millions and then some! Just where does all the fluids go hmmmmm! It don’t all evaporate …Just food for thought …
Dear EID,
I can use some help with the photo. Sorry I seldom watch telly or read newspapers. I find them very misleading. There was no customary, “pictured left to right” under the photo?
Who’s this Ruffalo chap? I think the one in the 1980′s BurgerKing hat is the same “lady”that is said to have split the beetles up. I saw that most repulsive video of her very poorly done African Wilda-beast mating call. The old fellow that looks like Larry Harmon when he had his makeup on? And who is the long haired man child who dresses like Jiminy Cricket? I must say they all seem to be very happy with one another.
Yoyo who? never heard of her. i heard of John lennon. Great artist. Great contributor to the music industry. Can’t say I ever heard of this yoyo broad who some think is a hollywood celeb. Anyone out there want to fill me in on yoyo’s accomplishments? Just another old bag with no life and a lot of pented up misery. I’m glad she’s not on my side of this topic.
Holy freak, Now I know we have it made! Who in their right mind would listen to such garbage? It is now a toss up between her and Vera! I can honestly say in all my years I have never, never ever seen anything this disturbing and utterly repulsive! Great I hope they come out with a few more bonehead ideas like this.Oh and by the way this is the severely hi IQ BUNCH? yee hah If Governor Cuomo falls for this, we all better head out of dodge!!
who would say no to Yoko with such a plea
who could say no to someone from PA named Craig Stevens who on the Bob Joseph radio show just a few weeks ago called Governor Cuomo a stupid Mongoloid
who could say no to tens of thousands of NYkers wanting to access their minerals
Who could say no to Vera Scruggins with her lady like pleas
Who could say no to Comrade Stiengraber who thought it was OK to indoctrinate children through fear.
Who could say no to thousands of new jobs, prosperity returning to upstate NY
Who…. “Cuomo”…. the Governor who promised science not fear and emotion and if he says no on Wednesday and I think he will… he will have went back on his word and let the politics and polls ruin the day,the lives, of thousands but we will not sit by as we the landowners will sue……A Taken’s
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2013/02/08/landowners-say-theyll-sue-if-dec-misses-fracking-deadline
And Vera calls Phelim a freak? Sheesh! When you have to resort to a screeching no-talent (dare I say?) FREAK, you know the antis are getting desperate. Still, our governor seems more infatuated with the celebrities than with keeping his word regarding science being the final word.
i love the photo of Tony the tiger Ingraffea with his peer review panel – hulk, yoyo, & yoyo’s son apparently wearing his childhood clothing?
It is amazing to me that when the message is clear you attack the messenger. How juvenille to comment on the way people dress you have fallen to a new level of reporting. The fact is the process of extracting natural gas by HVSW- the relatively new technology- (despite the half truth of the industry)- is damaging aquifers- some of which are direct drinking water aquifers of the people of Pennsylvania- for instance: Max Chilson, the Mannings, the Hallowich’s, McMickens, Phillips and countless others that the industry has not owned up to responsibility for. They are damaging the aquifers, air and soil of the Commonwealth. They damage it through spills, drilling, fracturing, maintenance. The question is who has the right to decide whose aquifer is expendable and just how many acts of damage is it going to take for it to stop until they can prove that it will not continue to cause damage? and yes Tom and Vic these people I list above are all facts and there are many more. So don’t start talking about supplying facts because you both know it is true. You and the industry need to grow up and accept responsibility for your actions.
There needs to be an assessment of what the damage will cost us to clean up. The reason this has not been done is because the industry has prevented it. The only logical reason for not wanting an assessment is that they are worried about the outcome. An assessment still needs to be done, because we do not need to leave our children and grandchildren with the burdens to clean up our mess because we did not take the appropriate precautions. Haven’t we learned from our past?
Shoot the messenger. Anyone who constantly states false information as it is true should be confronted. We are so tired of hearing the misinformation campaign and from millionaire hollywood elitist spreading the work of Not in My Backyard. If Yoko had one inch of wanting to really help the environment it would have happened in a different forum maybe putting money in National Forest or Wildlife foundations. She chose the Gasland propaganda machine and her reason is clear as she said it her self she does not want a pipeline near her home in Sullivan County. Her other Millionaire friends who choose to live in the city and travel to country for weekend getaways may have to experience a few inconveniences perhaps a water truck or some traffic of a line at the diner feeding hungry rig crews. Whatever its not because her environment will be destroyed its an inconvenience to them that is the bottom line.
If she doesn’t want a pipeline next to her farm then I say let’s take out the one that feeds her natural gas heat to her house out also !!!!!!
There you go again!
Where pray tell is there a single water well that has been contaminated by fracking. I raise this question in every forum and all the Antis can do is talk about gas and other petrochemicals that were already in the ground when the water wells were dug into these shallow deposits. This has nothing to do with fracking which is usually a mile deeper.
In fact some areas have been seeping these gasses and chemicals into surface water for millions of years. The Indians showed the colonists these seeps and that is how the petroleum industry started in this country.
http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2010/11/12/gas-seeps-in-western-ny/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gk1GHAo4lLk It not just the fracking it’s the whole process .This line of Fracking hasn’t caused contamination of wells is just BS
But, it hasn’t, Bill. You want to have it both ways. You want to say hydraulic fracturing is inherently dangerous when the facts clearly show otherwise and then when confronted with those facts you turn around and say “Oh, I meant the whole process of batural gas development.” Where did you learn your logic?
Also, I’m deleting every post you make that includes unsupported links. You can post the link to that article about the CHK fine as many times as you want, but it’s not going up unless you tie it to something and allow for a reasoned discussion of what it means or doesn’t mean. We don’t do links by themselves.
Tom my post of the Chesapeake fine was tied to JamesSmaces post about it .Trying to prove that there are cases and now this one has NO non disclosure (any others will follow from this .Again to make it clear to all of you on this site “the word game of fracking doesn’t cause contamination is just that ” issues can happen from the whole process drilling through fracking ……drilling also causes disturbances .You can delete anything you want here if you want .Just shows me you pick your answers to your articles …and my logic is pretty direct .If you want me to get more into details I will .Sometimes I just want to make a point .
Carolyn:
Don’t waste too much time debating on this website. It’s designed to cheer lead and to some degree, keep informed folks like yourself busy answering the childish – and often deliberately hurtful – postings. It’s somewhat amazing that the EID website hasn’t take a swipe at Yoko Ono’s ethnicity. Perhaps that’s next.
We haven’t but I think you just did.
Also, you’ve made 60 comments on this blog, which I gather you don’t view as a “waste of time.”
Michael Fitzgerald:
By All means don’t waste your time here when you can be in 1st grade classes all over the country telling children that progress is evil and the world will soon catch fire unless you draw a cartoon for Cuomo.Or you could attend PTA meetings instructing teachers to give extra credit to students who write negative things about drilling not based on science, but the hyprocrisy and opinion of Sandra Stiengrabber using her credientals as the magic wand of indoctrination.
Haven’t we learned from our past? Yes we have Carolyn Knapp! it’s why we shouldn’t even consider your cloudy view of what you call facts. Ever live near a coal fired power plant…? I have! So you take your so called facts to the thousands upon thousands of “real victims” both young and old of coal fired powerplants and your propaganda to a NYRAD meeting where you all feed off of each other because I don’t now or ever will buy into your story.
To Miss Knapp; another point is the mining industry for coal extraction has 100′s of fatalities globally every year, with many in the US. How many have occurred while drilling for gas, most years NONE!. Oh wait, the Binghamton Press went to town last year over the one fatality that occurred in West Virginia. I didn’t know they had a subscriber base there.
@ Vic F….I lived in an industrial area for 28 yrs .It had all sorts of plants .It was near the Exxon refinery in NJ ,also chemical plants, coke manufacturing plant ,and many other industrial polluters .This is why I’m strongly against the heavy industrialization I see from NG drilling that has come to NEPA .I tell it like it is Heavy industry exactly what it is .Also it’s not temporary because it moves from place to place in the general area ….you want pollution and money move to northern NJ .They have plenty to go around .
Mam, young lady, first off its the way the message and or messages are put forth. Honestly a women pretending to have sexual pleasure, displeasure or what ever you want to call it! Really do u want your children to watch, witness such a act, let alone grown ups? Lets face it if just one person on are side remotely did something of this nature we would be crucified! We could argue about aquifers till the cows come home, the so called problems that are constantly brought up is a particle of sand on the beaches of life so to speak! We no longer live in cave’s and die at the ripe old age of 16, we now have a life expectancy of 80 years of age! Because of progress, new technology medical advances, and the drugs (medical) that is to live a longer pain free life!. So next time you flush your toilet (with the leftover drug byproducts from your body, the cleaning fluids you dump down your drain, leftover paint, paint thinners,varnishes, glue and everything else u use to beautify your house think for a minute? Hey that’s right into my septic system and or cesspool in most (rural)cases. Unless you live in a city environment, yep u got one! Yep right above all our aquifers! Sometimes within 30 ‘ of water well (even though 100′ is minimum), now times this by millions and then some! Just where does all the fluids go hmmmmm! It don’t all evaporate …Just food for thought …
Um, what?
Dear EID,
I can use some help with the photo. Sorry I seldom watch telly or read newspapers. I find them very misleading. There was no customary, “pictured left to right” under the photo?
Who’s this Ruffalo chap? I think the one in the 1980′s BurgerKing hat is the same “lady”that is said to have split the beetles up. I saw that most repulsive video of her very poorly done African Wilda-beast mating call. The old fellow that looks like Larry Harmon when he had his makeup on? And who is the long haired man child who dresses like Jiminy Cricket? I must say they all seem to be very happy with one another.
Cheers,
Yoyo who? never heard of her. i heard of John lennon. Great artist. Great contributor to the music industry. Can’t say I ever heard of this yoyo broad who some think is a hollywood celeb. Anyone out there want to fill me in on yoyo’s accomplishments? Just another old bag with no life and a lot of pented up misery. I’m glad she’s not on my side of this topic.