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Municipalities prohibiting fracking under Home Rule in NYS |
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What actual bans are expicitly established?
City of Buffalo
City of Oneonta
Town of Camillus, Onondaga County
Town of Otsego, Otsego County
Town of Springfield, Otsego County
Town of Middlefield, Otsego County
Town of Plainfield, Otsego County
Town of Cherry Valley, Otsego County
Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County
Town of Wales, Erie County
Town of Dryden, Tompkins County
What counties have banned fracking on county lands?
Ontario County
Sullivan County
Onondaga County
Ulster County
Dutchess County
Tompkins County
Broome County
What proposed bans are under official consideration?
Town of Danby, Tompkins County
Town of Ulysses, Tompkins County
Town of Oneonta, Otsego County
Town of Skaneateles, Onondaga County
Town of New Hartford, Oneida County
Town of Saugerties, Ulster County
Town of Barrington, Yates County
Town of Milo, Yates County
Town of Jerusalem, Yates County
What are towns with movements for a ban?
Town of Niles, Cayuga County
Town of Caroline, Tompkins County
Town of Lumberland, Sullivan County
Town of Highland, Sullivan County
Town of Tusten, Sullivan County
Town of Milford, Otsego County
Town of Morris, Otsego County
Town of Hartwick, Otsego County
Town of Westford, Otsego County
Town of Maryland, Otsego County
Town of Butternuts, Otsego County
Town of New Lisbon, Otsego County
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Town of Otsego says NO to gas drilling |
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PRESS RELEASE/PRESS RELEASE/PRESS RELEASE
Fly Creek, NY, 11 May 2010--The Otsego Town Board voted 4-1 tonight to clarify a long-standing prohibition against heavy industry, including fracking for natural gas, in the town's land use law. By this vote the town, which includes most of the Village of Cooperstown, reaffirmed its home rule right to prohibit uses not permitted by local ordinances.
Though many towns in New York State have similar limitations on permitted uses on the books, pro-drilling advocates, pointing out that the gas industry is exempt from local regulation, have argued that towns have no authority at all over natural gas extraction.
The Town of Otsego action leaves it to the state's DEC to regulate gas drilling when and where it may occur, but reserves the home rule right to determine in the first place whether such a use should be allowed or prohibited in the town. In this case the answer was a resounding NO.
It is the first rural town in New York State to explicitly invoke its home rule authority to block gas drilling as a type of undesirable heavy industry incompatible with the town's comprehensive plan. The town acted in response to the overwhelming sentiment of the enrolled voters in the town opposed to gas drilling and heavy industry, documented through petitions and surveys as well as testimony at privilege of the floor and at a public hearing.
A number of other towns in Otsego county and across the state are contemplating taking similar steps. This grassroots resistance to natural gas extraction is a remarkable phenomenon. Local citizens are saying no to fracking for natural gas directly in their communities as too dangerous and costly and destructive to be tolerated. It is time for state and federal officials to take notice.
Adrian Kuzminski
Moderator, Sustainable Otsego
Contact: 607-547-8586
http://www.sustainableotsego.org
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Going Local by Adrian Kuzminski
Some thoughts in the aftermath of Governor Paterson's disappointing veto and executive order regarding gas drilling. These are just one person's opinions:
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Meeting the Energy Challenge for Otsego County |
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[The slides from the Conference are located in the "Energy Conference" menu item above. We are working on providing various mixed media from the Conference and will announce their availability here.]
Just a brief report on our May 5th, 2012 conference on "Meeting the Energy Challenge for Otsego County: Local Solutions, Local Control, Local Jobs."
Over 100 people attended, filling up Templeton Hall. Our speakers did a great job in six hours covering many aspects of conservation and renewable energy. We looked at everything from the big picture to nuts and bolts.
I believe a lot of new information was brought together in one place and shared with our local community for the first time in a systematic way.
I would only add that local control over our resources is ever more important, and that our communities should have a central role to play in deciding public policy on environmental matters.
This is not about undermining property rights, but about protecting them.That's also the best way to protect the environment and our resources. If corporations and governments can come in and do as they please, we will be the victims not the beneficiaries, and our resources will be lost, not protected.
If you didn't make it, you missed a great experience. If you did, you know what I'm talking about.
My thanks again to the participants and to our supporters who made this possible, and to our co-sponsors: OCCA, Brewery Ommegang, and Otsego 2000.
Adrian Kuzminski
Moderator, Sustainable Otsego
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This important action by the Preservation League was announced yesterday based on a Seven to Save application submitted by Otsego 2000 with substantial assistance from Ellen Pope, Martha Frey and Jesse Ravage. Copies of the full application can be found at Otsego2000.org.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Preservation League adds Historic & Cultural Resources
in the Marcellus & Utica Shale Gas Regions
to Seven to Save list of endangered places for 2012-13
ALBANY, March 29, 2012 – The Preservation League of New York State has named the historic and cultural resources in the Marcellus and Utica Shale gas regions to its list of the Empire State’s most threatened historic resources, Seven to Save.
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