Friday, October 14, 2011

Welcome & Things You Can Do



PLEASE  Get informed! 
Once you are informed you will want to
Say: "No To Hydrofracking" in NY State

 Highly recommended web sources:  
EcoWatch 
http://preservethefingerlakes.org/
New Yorkers Against Fracking  
 http://www.r-cause.net

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IMPORTANT VICTORY FOR THE NYS ANTI-FRACKING MOVEMENT:
•  Appeal Court Says NY Towns Can Ban Fracking [Democrat and Chronicle]



Anna Sears and Nedra Harvey, co-founders
R-CAUSE (Rochesterians Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction)
http://www.r-cause.net/

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 Steingraber two others sent to Jail  for act of 
Social Disobedience against Gas Co ~ Seneca Lake 
http://ecowatch.com/2013/three-arrested-court-appearance-protesting-fracking/
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/18-7
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9691e612c7b1b9a9a04bf1f41&id=c625f088ef&e=c124c3452a

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Must Read!!!!!
Letters from Prison: Sandra Steingraber


 Sandra's Prepared Sentencing Statement
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Sandra's first letter from prison is at the bottom this article
http://ecowatch.com/2013/new-york-abolitionist-fight-to-stop-fracking/

 Sandra's #2 letter from prison 4-19-13
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A Hopeful Anit-Fracking Perspective for NY 4-15-2013 
http://wxxinews.org/post/state-still-awaiting-fracking-decision
Sign Walter Hang's Newest 2-24-2013
Coalition Letter re: DOH Review
http://www.toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/letters/2013/02/24/public-doh-review
Breaking News 
February 11, 2013
Fracking Scandal, 
Law Suites, 
Legal Demands

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Conflict of Interest in Cuomo Administration
http://ecowatch.org/2013/ny-fracking-scandal/
 This dreary picture outlined in the above breaking story launched a new website dedicated to chronicling the ongoing and growing scandal: NYFrackingScandal.com

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Lawyers Helen and David Slottje
Threat to Sue DEC #1
Today CEDC Community Environmental Defense Council  sent a letter to the DEC demanding that the records be made available immediately and put the DEC on notice that if it fails to respond that it will bring a suit to compel production of the reports and to stop the proposed regulations from being enacted."  Read the full letter 

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Lawyers Helen and David Slottje
Threat to Sue DEC #2

On Friday, 1/11/13: Helen and David Slottje of the CEDC (Community Environmental Defense Council)  submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation demanding the Proposed Fracking Regulations be withdrawn; in other words, a threat to sue because the DEC process has not followed state rules. Read their full letter here:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/119980103/Fracking-Regulation-Lawsuit

#3 The Great Slottjes Clarify where we are
in the process right now 2-14-2013
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New Jersey State Legislators write Cuomo
Urging him to Ban Hydrofracking in NY
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 I highly recommend you read the material supplied in
Sandra Steingraber "30 days of frack comments"
http://www.thirtydaysoffrackingregs.com/dec14reg.php

 Also see 
Sandra Steingraber's
Public Hearing Statement
plus a letter to her "30 Days" followers
written January 10, 2013
New York Assembly
http://notohydrofracking.blogspot.com/2011/10/sandra-steingraber-testimony-public.html

 Lawyers Helen and David Slottje
Threat to Sue DEC
From Anna Sears of http://www.r-cause.net 
On Friday, 1/11/13: Helen and David Slottje of the CEDC (Community Environmental Defense Council)  submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation demanding the Proposed Fracking Regulations be withdrawn; in other words, a threat to sue because the DEC process has not followed state rules. Read their full letter here:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/119980103/Fracking-Regulation-Lawsuit

 Environmentalists'  Coalition Letter to Gov. Cuomo
http://ecowatch.org/2013/gov-cuomo-climate-change-fracking/
the Coalition letter is a "must read"! (to see actual letter click on > letter)
EchoWatch: on Hydrofracking

Rally Against Fracking at State of the State

"Meet Chip Northrup--An Articulate and Energetic Opponent of Fracking"  
Walter Hang: Toxics Targeting
http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/
Write and call Governor Cuomo:  tell him 
Do not to put New Yorkers' health and the environment at risk. 
It can be a simple message like, 
"Protect New York's water, land and air by not permitting fracking in New York. 
Instead, support renewable energy that will bring good, long-term jobs to New Yorkers!"

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Websites and Individuals to follow:

R-Cause   Rochester, NY  sign-up to this area info network 
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Sandra Steingraber  click here
Tony Ingraffea  click here
Walter Hang, Toxics Targeting  click here
James Northrup  click here
Dr. Robert Howarth  click here
Deborah Rogers, financial spin on hydrofracking  click here
Dr. Jannette Barth, economist  click here
Robert Oswald & Michelle Williams (impact on animals)  click here
Josh Fox, filmmaker & activist click here
Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  Call him!  Email him!  

Selected other important links from this website: (see right side of page)
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 Newest Reports and Articles about Hydrofracking


Important New article on James Northrup: 
"Meet Chip Northrup--An Articulate and Energetic Opponent of Fracking"  

Health Impacts of Hydrofracking in Pennsylvania:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/dimock-pennsylvania-water-contamination_n_1203757.html
Please read Senator Avella's letter of concern (also attached) to Governor Cuomo and Commissioner Martens, for clarification. Here's an excerpt: "…it makes absolutely no sense for final regulations to be issued by DEC that are incapable of including any consideration of the health impacts assessment that is not expected to be completed until sometime early next year… I urge you to maintain your position in earnest by allowing the process of scientific review of the health impacts to be concluded prior to any revised regulations being proposed… "

This development raises many questions: How can regulations be issued before the multi-year review of environmental impacts is completed? Does this mean fracking permits could be issued early this spring?  How will this all play out in the courts? Will home rule survive? Where's the DEC staff to regulate fracking?
OTHER RELATED AND OLDER MATERIALS
No Land Escapes: art exhibition:  Feb 1- Mar 29, 2013
http://ink-shop.org/exhibits/no-land-escapes  
Barb McPhail, Pamela Drix, Elizabeth Durand, Craig Mains, Teri Power, Kathleen Sherin

TV Add Reveals the True Costs of Hydrofracking
http://ecowatch.org/2012/true-costs-of-fracking/

10/20/12: The New York Times: about the economics behind the gas industry: 

10/18/12: Earthworks' new PA Health Study, GAS PATCH ROULETTE, Press Release: 


10/15/12: Buffalo News: from Arcade, Wyoming County, NY: 

EPA Testing in Wyoming again shows fracking contamination
See the MAP showing bans or moratoria against Fracking!  http://www.fractracker.org/fractracker-maps/ny-moratoria/ 

1.   The Village Voice: Fracking: Boom or Doom: America's hydraulic fracturing gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation:  http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-09-19/news/boom-or-doom-fracking-environment/

Environmental Working Group's Press Release: Cuomo Administration Failure to Disclose Drilling Documents Prompts Environmental Working Group Lawsuit:

3.  To learn more about the Inergy LPG storage wells in Reading, just north of Watkins Glen on the west side of Seneca Lake, please read the attached Watkins Glen Update and go to  http://gasfreeseneca.com/ for more updates. 

Water vs Gas and Oil  New York Times article
Water Well Contamination in PA.  NPR story
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/28/160128351/methane-making-an-appearance-in-pa-water-supplies


West Nile Virus Outbreak, Texas Drought, Climate Change, implications for Hydrofracking 

5000+ Protest in Washington DC re Hydrofracking
Bill McKibben's most important writing:  must read
NY Senate Forum on Hydrofracking 7-18-12
Part One: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24076195 four hours total
ALSO, from YNN' Senator Avella speaks about the forum (about 11 minutes):
Pop Culture joins the fight agains Cuomo and Hydrofracking:  see this website "Artists against Fracking"  http://www.artistsagainstfracking.com/
also see the video  http://www.frackaction.com/2012/07/14/artists-against-fracking/

 Must See: Josh Fox's new video about Hydrofracking  http://vimeo.com/44367635
Read a review of the video  Review

Scientists Physicians Engineers see the Flaws
http://www.ewg.org/release/serious-flaws-plague-ny-drilling-plan

 "Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas" International Energy Agency, London  May 29, 2012  press release 
http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2012/may/name,27266,en.html
NY Times Editorial  click here
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Why Is This Texan Against Fracking New York:

Exxon Mobil Plans Major New Chemical Plant:

Exxon's Fracking Gag Makes Chesapeake Look Good:
http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2012/05/30/exxon’s-fracking-gag-makes-chesapeake-look-good/

 6/27/12: USA Today: Natural Gas Gold Rush: Is Your State Next?:  http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-29/fracking-environment-gas/55845708/1
Note:  This article tries to give a brief overview and completely ignores Health Impacts and global warming or climate change.  I don't see how one could write something like this and not mention these things!

New York's failure to track waste water... Environmental Advocates of New York http://www.eany.org/images/Reports/outofsight_finalweb.pdf

 North Dakota's Oil Boom: Damage as well as Prosperity
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-other-fracking-north-dakotas-oil-boom-brings-damage-along-with-prosperi

Feds punt leadership over fracking rules
http://www.nationofchange.org/feds-punt-leadership-over-fracking-rules-experts-say-1337440076

 Environalmental Collapse on the "Tipping Point"
We know that hydrofracking contributes significantly, as much if not more than coal mining, to Global Warming.  See this study that appears ahead of the June 20-22 UN Conference on Sustainable Development   http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/environmental-collapse-now-a-serious-threat-scientists/

 Robert F. Kennedy on the Oil Industry
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/petro-plutocracy_b_1498524.html

 Important:  ALEC's  Undisclosed Influence     
http://www.prwatch.org/  See the video at the bottom of the page: "CMD releases New Report: 'ALEC Exposed in Wisconsin: The Hijacking of a State' "  (The report may lead to important facts relating to the battle over fracking.)    

 In Fracking's Wake
http://www.nrdc.org/energy/fracking-wastewater.asp

 Please get involved: New Yorkers Against Fracking http://nyagainstfracking.org/

Please sign this new Coalition Letter by Walter Hang

A recent newsletter from Walter Hang: a must read!
http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/alerts/2012/05/01/hallelujah

Hydrofracking Waste Water:  What to do? 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/nyregion/wastewater-is-an-issue-in-hydrofracking.html?_r=1&src=recg 

http://notohydrofracking.blogspot.com/2011/10/canandaigua-senate-hearings-on-waste.html


New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years http://www.propublica.org/article/new-study-predicts-frack-fluids-can-migrate-to-aquifers-within-years/

Sleepy Fracking Truck Drivers Exempt from usual Rules http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/for-oil-workers-deadliest-danger-is-driving.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hpw

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4/26: THE ITHACA JOURNAL: 

4/30/12: FORTUNE MAGAZINE: 
• Exxon's Big Bet on Shale Gas: 
• America's New Job Machine is Heating Up: 
• Will Gas Crowd Out Wind and Solar? 

(I suggest you get on this mailing list:)   http://www.r-cause.net

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Powerful letter from Sandra Steingraber to Sierra Club:  A must read... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/26-7

 Local Essay on Hydrofracking:  Effects on communities http://www.mpnnow.com/opinions/x2020332290/GUEST-ESSAY-Non-environmental-effects-of-natural-gas-exploration


One of the most important things you can do to protect yourself: get your municipality to create a moratorium and zoning laws against hydrofracking.  click here  click here   click here  click here

 4/11/12: ENERGY:  The New York Times ran a whole section with nine articles about energy: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/businessspecial2/index.html

4/11/12: Department of the Interior's clarification about the US earthquakes: http://www.doi.gov/news/doinews/Is-the-Recent-Increase-in-Felt-Earthquakes-in-the-Central-US-Natural-or-Manmade.cfm

4/6/12:  UB to open shale research facility:
(Read the comments at the end to get a sense of how divisive this issue is.)

MARCH 2012: FRACKING: The New Global Water Crisis: "Food & Water Watch reviews the risks and costs of shale development that have been demonstrated in the United States, including economic costs that run counter to industry-backed claims about the economic benefits of the practice."

Following up on my earlier email, here are two opinions about fracking with propane:

4/10/12: Gary P.Hoffman: Fracking with Propane: http://www.r-cause.net/uploads/8/0/2/5/8025484/frackingwithpropane1.pdf

Animal and Human Health Impacts from Gas Drilling: Peer-reviewed Study http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/animal-and-human-health-impacts-from-gas-drilling-peer-reviewed-study/

Gag Orders placed on Pennsylvania's Doctors
http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/fracking-doctors-gag-pennsylvania


Natural Gas Exposed View this Video by Water Defense .org 
https://www.waterdefense.org/content/natural-gas-exxposed-3


The Department of Agriculture and Hydrofracking
Climate Change: it's impact on water  OECD Report
http://www.emagazine.com/daily-news/warning-signs/


Steven Rosenfeld: Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania's Act 13 May Be the Nation's Worst Corporate Giveaway: 

David Sirota: Fracking and the 'Layer Ploy': 

 Cuomo and Corbett Ignore Health Concerns from Gas Fracking:

The Truth about Jobs, Hydrofracking & Politics  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/krugman-natural-born-drillers.html?src=rechp

Federal Scientists Warn NY of Fracking Risks   http://www.ewg.org/report/federal-scientists-warn-ny-fracking-risks


Deborah Rogers: The Industry's Financial Hype Belying Hydrofracking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYzU4bEfJ5U   

 More Dirty Little Fossil Fuel Secrets

Dryden's Ban on Fracking protected by NY Supreme Court  
http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/blog/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/nyregion/town-can-ban-hydrofracking-ny-judge-rules.html?_r=1
Middlefield, NY Ban also upheld by Judge
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/nyregion/judge-upholds-hydrofracking-ban-in-middlefield-ny.html?_r=1

RIT Students' photo documentary, Dimock, PA  2 days
Newest visit:  http://laurensjournalonfracking.tumblr.com/
http://laurensjournalonfracking.tumblr.com/post/17439436784/day-1-part-1-dimock#notes
http://laurensjournalonfracking.tumblr.com/post/17439463758/day-1-part-2-carter-road#notes
http://laurensjournalonfracking.tumblr.com/  day-2

Fort Worth Weekly: Don't Drink the Water:    Click Here


NY Times: Report by Agency Lowers Estimates of Natural Gas in U.S  click here

About Super-fracking: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/like-fracking-youll-love-super-fracking-01192012.html

Occupy Hydrofracking
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175492/tomgram%3A_ellen_cantarow%2C_an_environmental_occupy_fracks_corporate_america/


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 Doctors: united statement 
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-09/fracking-moratorium-urged-by-u-s-doctors-until-health-studies-conducted.html

 Environmental Working Group Comments
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78073940/Environmental-Working-Group

News Flash:  EPA & Groundwater contamination
News Flash!  4.0 Ohio Earthquake (one of 11 total in less than a year) is thought to be caused by toxic waste from Hydrofracking stored in deep wells. 
http://ecowatch.org/2012/breaking-ohio-govenor-halts-four-more-fracking-wastewater-injection-wells-after-yesterdays-quake/


Letter from the Canandailgua Lake Watershed Council to Commissioner Martens  Dec. 6, 2011  click here


Six Very important testimonies from Canandaigua Hearing on Fracking Waste
    Click Here   Click Here   Click Here  Click Here  Click Here  Click Here

Land Leases  You must read these 3 stories about land leases for hydrofracking, and a battle over land rights.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/us/drilling-down-fighting-over-oil-and-gas-well-leases.html?emc=eta1
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/us/towns-fighting-to-stand-ground-against-gas-drillers.html?emc=eta1
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11348/1196672-455-0.stm


Cananda's Tar Sands: Their True Cost
http://www.nationofchange.org/must-see-video-true-cost-tar-sands-1331054083
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Welcome to NoToHydrofracking
        Land Leased for natural gas drilling in the Finger Lakes (white areas=no info)
        Click twice on the map to get a closer look    Click here for Citizens Campaign Leased  
        Land map with 20,000 plots identified in 8 NY counties!  (long download time)

Please click on all red colored words in the text.  They are hyperlinked and will supply you with important added information.


Welcome!  I created this website in October, 2011 with my wife Gloria to support those who want to see Canandaigua, the Finger Lakes area, and all of New York State remain an environmentally clean and healthy place to live and visit.  This website contains important information about hydraulic fracturing and suggestions of things you can do to protect yourself and the environment from this dangerous industrial gas drilling process proposed to be used in NY State to access natural gas from our states shale rock formations.  Click on these two links to learn about High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing  more commonly referred to as Hydrofracking    This process poses a very serious threat to our health, our beautiful landscape, our lakes, water sheds, clean air, vineyards, organic farming, tourism, the value of our houses and personal property, and in general the culture we have known and loved in Canandaigua and the Finger Lakes Area.  We must work together to stop hydrofracking in all of New York State, but especially the Finger Lakes Arera.   
  
Things You Can Do:

1) Become informed about the dangers, lies and flawed thinking about  Hydrofracking.   Click on the titles below and any other colored hyperlinks you find in any of the texts.  You can click on the page titles in the Blog Archive (see above, top of the page, right column, below the flying birds).  The list of titled links below, for example, are from the Archive, and are highly recomended:   See everything at the top of this blog page; it is the most recent information available.  Also see the below:


     See this video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ka0QJaKZ4s
2) Write and Call Gov. Cuomo  & keep doing it!  Don't Stop!!!
            Call toll free, email, or write Gov. Cuomo  Phone:  (518) 474-8390
            http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php
         

3) Attend City and Town Board Hearings to support them as they prepare protective moratoriums and zoning laws  against Hydrofracking. 

                       
4) Contact all your friends and ask them to: a) sign Walter Hang's Coalition Letter   b) attend Town Board meetings; c) Attend the Jan 23 Hydrofracking Day of action in Albany (see above).   The more people who participate in standing up to the political, economic, health and environmental abuse that the State Government's desire to allow Hydrofracking represents, the more possible it will be to stall the process.  A moratorium will give us time to find safer and more responsible solutions to getting access to the natural gas in New York State than are presently available; and d) send this blog and other information you have about hydrofracking to your friends and others.  The bigger the network of concerned and informed people the better.     
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It is essential to stop - or at the very least slow down - the aggressive push by NY Government and the Oil and Gas Industries, to essentially "rape" the State's land for its natural gas via Hydrofracking.  We must insist on a state ban or Moratorium and we must create local legal zoning controls that will help us protect ourselves.  We need to be fully aware of the risks involved to personal health and safety, the environment and the true enoconomic impacts to us personally, our area and the State. There must be scientific (peer reviewed) studies, professional unbiased economic and health impact assessments carefully conducted before hydrfacking is allowed to begin.  The current revised SGEIS is completely inadequate, biased, and lacking in regulations.  It needs to be completely revised.   Please write and call Gov. Cuomo and tell him.  Call toll free, email, or write Gov. Cuomo  Phone:  (518) 474-8390   http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php
         

There are hundreds of professional and scientific testimonies (by Physicians, Scholars, Scientists, Economists, Environmental Specialists, and more) regarding the huge number of dangers, flaws and hidden or unknown costs in the Hydrofracking process and the current SGEIS report.  I have supplied in this website lots of ways to inform yourselves about these things, including Hearing Testimonies, videos, websites, articles, etc.

I am particularly concerned about The Finger Lakes Area because my wife and I live in Canandaigua and because the the vast fresh watersheds in our area could be poisoned if hydrofracking is allowed.  Will the value of our house drop 80% because of the industrialization of our area, the pollution of the lake (and our drinking water), the pollution of the air and nearby farms and vineyards?  


Make no mistake, if hydrofracking is permitted anywhere in the State of New York we ALL will suffer for it . . .  in terms of health risks, economic burdens, pollution of all kinds, 24/7 heavy dump truck traffic ruining our roads as they carry heavy loads of toxic wastes from the many surrounding Hydrofracking drill sites.  Look at all the red marks on the map above and multiply each dot by 1000 truck loads per well, with 8 wells on each single pad!  And understand, the areas in white on the map do not disclose any of the leased land in those areas.  For example, Broome County could probably be colored solid red.

Perhaps a few individuals will benefit from gas drilling, if it happens in NY State, but at what costs to all of us and our local municipalities?  It can't said often enough, the hidden and unknown costs to this Industrial-political-corporate plague upon us will be enormous.  Click here

One hugely important but unresolved question related to the DEC report is this:  What to do with all the toxic waste water and the other waste drilling materials generated by Hydrofracking? Unimaginable amounts of fresh water will have to be used to do the toxic drilling, and a large part of that fresh water will then be made poison in the process of drilling and will have to be disposed of somehow. There's no place in the state to take it.  See six important testimonies on Hydrofracking Waste that were given in the recent Canandaigua Hearing Click Here  

Click on this true story from PA:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits on Gov. Cuomo's Hydrofracking Advisory Panel.  He wrote an incredibly important essay about hydrofracking dated October 20, 2011:  Please be sure to  read it.  Click here    

Hydrofracking in our area is a time bomb just waiting to go off.   It seems to me we are on the brink of something akin to a war-like invasion.  It feels like we are having to fight for the right to be heard, or due process.  Are we prepared?  Can we function as a unified front to stop this monster that is coming at us?  Are we doing all that can be done to protect the Finger Lakes and ourselves and future generations?
Write and call Gov. Cuomo

If you have other information and links you'd like me to consider adding to the website please contact me at  sf@uwm.edu   Thank you so much.
                                                                    
Steven and Gloria Foster
3906 Chatham Lane
Canandaigua, NY  14424
sf@uwm.edu




Steven and Gloria Foster moved to Canandaigua in July, 2008.  They have two children.  One lives in Milwaukee, the other lives in Rochester, NY.
     
Steven Foster is a visual artist and a retired professor of fine art photography.  Please  visit his photography website click here.   In 2007  Steven began a project (which anticipated this website) entitled The Departing Landscape, a visual - poetic meditation on the dissolution of Man's relationship to the Natural World.  To see images and texts for this project click here.   Steven has also created a new series of hydrofracking photographs for this website.  Please visit The Hydrofracking Suite 
     
Gloria Foster is a gardener, social activist, ceramicist and retired school social worker.


Gloria first made Steven aware of the dangers of Hydrofracking.  This website reflects their shared love and concern for this beautiful land and water and its people.  


Rainbow over Canandaigua meadow,  October 14, 2011 - the morning I started this site
         
                                                                                                                                                                     

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Hydrofracking Suite:  four photography projects by Steven D. Foster: http://thedepartinglandscape.blogspot.com/2010/11/hydrofracking-suite.html
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. . . a never-ending line of very large, heavy dump trucks were rolling down your street or nearby streets, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a few years.   Imagine what this constant horrific industrial truck parade will do to our air, our roads, our peace of mind.  Imagine all the toxic wastes that will be dripping from the trucks and getting into our ground water.  Will there be accidents?  Will drivers dump their loads into streams, rivers or lakes, over the edge of a hill, just to conveniently rid themselves of a day's drive to some distant toxic waste dump site out of state where toxic wastes from Hydrofraking will begin leaking into the earth and then finding it's ways to wells, aquifers, rivers and lakes in that distant state?  Imagine not being able to sell your house because your neighbor has allowed hydrofracking on their property, or because your water well has been poisoned.  Imagine all the drilled gas wells that will be leaking toxic materials into the underground rock crevices and finding its way into your private water well, or your favorite river and then a lake.  Imagine dead fish floating in the lake; dead livestock laying in pastures from poisoned water, your pets throwing up and then dying in great misery.  Imagine an industrialized network of pipelines covering our landscape.  With those pipelines come restrictions of all kinds on what can happen near them.  Imagine, will people want to come vacation here and to fish and boat in polluted lakes?  To buy our wine?  To eat our produce? To breath our air?  Imagine your children or grandchirldren suffering from respiratory illnesses and later cancer from drinking contaminated water and eating contaminated food and breathing polluted air . . .   Imagine the costs on every level that local governments will be faced with when the hydrofrackers leave the area, leaving us with huge clean up problems, and repair or replacement costs of roads and other infrastructure, and all the health related issues that will slowly unfold.  Imagine living in a place with water that cannot be consumed and impossible to clean for future use.  Imagine your taxes going up to help pay for the hidden costs of Hydrofracking  ~  Imagine Pennsylvania has seen it all, and yet New York State wants to be the next to rush into this horrific experiment at a cost that has yet to be officially acknowledged.  Imagine us coming together in ways that can make a difference, in ways that could establish a moratorium and legal bans on Hydrofracking.  Imagine how additional scientific research could some day yield a gas drilling process that would be safe, and done responsibly, with care of the land and the people, and the ozone layer being part of that future vision.   Imagine New York State being the first sustainable energy state in the Union, with unlimited job opportunities for those who want to be part of an innovative, growing new energy industry that produces safe, efficient green alternatives. 
























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