From United For Action:
On December 9, 2010, Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) caved in to the pressure by the gas drilling interests and issued draft regulations for hydraulic fracturing gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin watershed. This is the first step leading to issuance of permits for hydraulic fracturing gas drilling in the watershed. Thus DRBC has put the water and lives of over 15 million people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, including about 7 million people in New York City and northern New Jersey who live outside of the basin, at a tremendous risk...
United for Action is organizing a trip to attend the public hearing to be held on Thursday 2/24/11 in Trenton, NJ. (If you can't come you can write letters for us to bring)
Come to DRBC Public Hearing in Trenton, NJ on Thursday 2/24
When: Thursday 2/24/11 meet up at 9:30 am
Where: At the NJ Transit Ticket Windows inside Penn Station near 7th Avenue
One way ticket costs $15.50
Trenton Transit Center address is 72 South Clinton Avenue, Trenton, NJ
Hearing place address is Patriots Theater at War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, NJ
For those who are adventurous, you can also walk from the Trenton Transit Center to the War Memorial. According to the google map walking direction, the walk takes about 18 to 20 minutes.
We plan to take the 6:16 pm train leaving Trenton Transit Center arriving in New York Penn Station at 7:36 pm
If you plan to join us and take the train from Penn Station but has not yet RSVP, please RSVP to (AyalaShannon@gmail.com)
If you can not come to this hearing, please make every effort to go to (this hearing):
2/22 – Liberty High School Auditorium, 125 Buckley Street, Liberty, NY
If you can not attend a hearing in person, please send a comment before the deadline of March 16th 5:00 pm.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Countdown to Amp Up! Summit
With about a week left until the summit to kick off a semester of high voltage, renewable energy powered, organic social change, it's up to all the folks that are down, to drop seeds everywhere, and water those seeds, and shine a little on them. That means telling our classes, our friends, people we've never even talked to before, people who don't talk to many people. "Even if you're not into the environment or food, it's good to come just to see what's going on, it's free, and you learn about justice in general, and skills that you could use for anything." Please send emails out, share stuff on Facebook walls and invite people through that; you can print the flyer too. Hey, Mr. Turquoise videos are not on behalf of Amp Up! or an organization; you could make videos yourself: this is grassroots.
Invite friends here.
Register here.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
A Mountain Lost, a Mountain Saved
An email from NY Loves Mountains (sent Jan 18th):
The new year has already seen big changes in the the movement to end
mountaintop removal that have made us pause to mourn and to express
gratitude. On January 3rd, Julia "Judy" Bonds passed away after a
struggle with cancer. Judy, a Goldman prize award winner in 2003, was
a beloved leader who had devoted her life to the fight to end the coal
mining practice that was destroying her family's home.
...It is with gratitude and hope that we met the news this past week
that the EPA has chosen to veto the permit for the proposed Spruce No.
1 mine in West Virginia, what would have been the largest mountaintop
mine in Appalachia to date, stating that "the proposed Spruce No. 1
Mine would use destructive and unsustainable mining practices that
jeopardize the health of Appalachian communities and clean water on
which they depend." Many see this decision as a landmark victory,
marking a turning of the tide in the regulation of the mining
industry. However, with a new administration could come a very
different EPA, reversing the progress being made now.
...New Yorkers absolutely have a connection to mountaintop removal. Not
only do we burn MTR coal, our state retirement fund invests in Massey
Energy, the company behind more MTR mines than any other. If you know
a state employee that does not want his or her retirement money
invested in mountaintop removal coal mining, please tell him or her to
get in touch with us. We need to push Albany to stop supporting a
company that destroys entire habitats and communities and sends its
miners into deadly mines without proper safety precautions. It's time
to end Comptroller's DiNapoli's appeasement strategy and get our money
out of Massey. Sign the petition calling for NYS Retirement Fund to
divest from Massey Energy here.
The new year has already seen big changes in the the movement to end
mountaintop removal that have made us pause to mourn and to express
gratitude. On January 3rd, Julia "Judy" Bonds passed away after a
struggle with cancer. Judy, a Goldman prize award winner in 2003, was
a beloved leader who had devoted her life to the fight to end the coal
mining practice that was destroying her family's home.
...It is with gratitude and hope that we met the news this past week
that the EPA has chosen to veto the permit for the proposed Spruce No.
1 mine in West Virginia, what would have been the largest mountaintop
mine in Appalachia to date, stating that "the proposed Spruce No. 1
Mine would use destructive and unsustainable mining practices that
jeopardize the health of Appalachian communities and clean water on
which they depend." Many see this decision as a landmark victory,
marking a turning of the tide in the regulation of the mining
industry. However, with a new administration could come a very
different EPA, reversing the progress being made now.
...New Yorkers absolutely have a connection to mountaintop removal. Not
only do we burn MTR coal, our state retirement fund invests in Massey
Energy, the company behind more MTR mines than any other. If you know
a state employee that does not want his or her retirement money
invested in mountaintop removal coal mining, please tell him or her to
get in touch with us. We need to push Albany to stop supporting a
company that destroys entire habitats and communities and sends its
miners into deadly mines without proper safety precautions. It's time
to end Comptroller's DiNapoli's appeasement strategy and get our money
out of Massey. Sign the petition calling for NYS Retirement Fund to
divest from Massey Energy here.
Friday, January 28, 2011
A Green Train is a Rollin
There are three major environmental and food conferences this semester and one tremendous day of action.
Click here to get the scoop on what's going on.
Click here to get the scoop on what's going on.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Counter Culture
The experiment of a P.a.T.C.H. went pretty well. In the darkly lit old, wooden community center of Saint Luke's Church in West Harlem about thirty people spent a few hours sharing tunes, artwork, ideas and food. Although all activists were invited it became thoroughly routed in Environmental Justice, Food Justice and Eco Defense. There was Vegan and Freegan food. People spoke about MTR, Fracking and EJ history. Folks from Campus Sustainability groups met folks from Radical Environmental groups. The way it should be. Because it is a break from the everyday fabric of materialism and waste, degredation and exploitation, we say Reduce, Reuse, Resist! But I guess the main thing, as was intended, was that people shared how they felt, and that's what it's all about.
NYC Gas Pipeline??????
Wednesday is the last day to register as an intervener of the proposed Natural Gas Pipeline that is headed to run below Lower Manhattan, Jersey City and Staten Island. If you're like lots of people who recieved flyers about this in Chelsea from United For Action, you're gasping. Bloomberg, the same guy who rejected Fracking in the NYC Watershed, supports a Marcellus Gas Pipeline to be built in NYC? And these things do blow up. Sorry to be all code orangey all over again, but yes, they are terrorist targets. But that aside, a pipe blew up accidentally in California months ago killing 8 people. And accidents aside, it compliments unnecessary fossil fuel extraction while pushing away Green Jobs and putting Green Jobs in the category of youthful idealistic fantasy. Here's a better idea:United For Action created a guideline page for registering as an intervener, which may lead to the opportunity of participating in the democratic process of a public commentary period. Even though you probably have to be in this sphere of things to even know about this, Wednesday is the deadline, so let's register as stakeholders who have the most STAKE in the FUTURE! It takes 25 minutes. Please register as an intervener.
*Photo: San Bruno Pipeline Fire (San Fransisco Examiner)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Phili Victory/Harrisburg Rally
A victory in Philadelphia coincided with a protest in Harrisburg. 
From Protecting Our Waters:
Philadelphia utility to avoid Marcellus natgas
Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:27pm GMT
* Commission concerned about effects of "fracking"
* Marcellus buys banned pending EPA review due in 2012
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Philadelphia officials on Tuesday directed a city utility not to buy natural gas from the Marcellus Shale until more is known about the safety of the hydraulic fracturing technique used to extract it.
With its largely symbolic gesture, Philadelphia becomes the first major U.S. city to refuse to buy natural gas obtained by the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, said Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones, who sponsored the measure.
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN1813865220110118
We celebrate this positive breakthrough, which took place on the same day as a significant statewide rally we helped build:
Reporting from Harrisburg, Protecting Our Waters organizer Liz Arnold comments: We definitely made an impression. It was great seeing everyone who made it out to Harrisburg. Press coverage is never accurate (I counted 200 people at the rally), but everyone who reported on the inauguration at least mentioned us, and often explained some key concerns about fracking:
Harrisburg Patriot News
Pittsburg Tribune-Review
Bloomberg
WTAE Pittsburg
York Daily Record
Phillyburbs.com
AND an inspiring one about the anti-gas drilling actions going on in England
From Protecting Our Waters:
Philadelphia utility to avoid Marcellus natgas
Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:27pm GMT
* Commission concerned about effects of "fracking"
* Marcellus buys banned pending EPA review due in 2012
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Philadelphia officials on Tuesday directed a city utility not to buy natural gas from the Marcellus Shale until more is known about the safety of the hydraulic fracturing technique used to extract it.
With its largely symbolic gesture, Philadelphia becomes the first major U.S. city to refuse to buy natural gas obtained by the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, said Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones, who sponsored the measure.
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN1813865220110118
We celebrate this positive breakthrough, which took place on the same day as a significant statewide rally we helped build:
Reporting from Harrisburg, Protecting Our Waters organizer Liz Arnold comments: We definitely made an impression. It was great seeing everyone who made it out to Harrisburg. Press coverage is never accurate (I counted 200 people at the rally), but everyone who reported on the inauguration at least mentioned us, and often explained some key concerns about fracking:
Harrisburg Patriot News
Pittsburg Tribune-Review
Bloomberg
WTAE Pittsburg
York Daily Record
Phillyburbs.com
AND an inspiring one about the anti-gas drilling actions going on in England
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