Gas Production Education & Action
- BRSC's gas production task force needs you to help bring accountability to this process and make sure that if drilling happens, that our families, communities and environment are protected.
- BRSC's Position Regarding Natural Gas Mining In Tight Formations:
- BRSC supports clean, safe and responsible energy production as a cornerstone of sustainability, resilience, and a key part of building local prosperity.
- After review of unconventional natural gas production across the nation, taking into account the extreme deficiencies in the NYS dSGEIS, as well as in existing technologies, the lack of strong regulations, and the capacity for enforcement, BRSC has concluded that horizontal hydraulic fracturing for natural gas cannot be clean or safe under current conditions.
- Until these facts change, BRSC will be opposed to unconventional gas production.
- Read BRSC's Full Resolution: BRSC Resolution Regarding Natural Gas Mining In Tight Formations
- Here’s what you can do:
- *Donate Money. We can’t win this without resources. Make out your check to BRSC and mail your tax-deductible donations to the Binghamton Regional Sustainability Center, P.O. Box 907, Binghamton, NY 13902 (online donation link coming soon). If you want your donation earmarked write GPTF on the check.
- *Contact your elected officials. Send this letter to one or more of the local, state or federal officials on these lists: Broome County Officials; NY State and Federal Officials. Use our template as a guide to create your own, or to make a call. Phone calls and personal notes count for more than form letters.
- *Host a film screening and discussion anywhere where people who know you and would respond to you as a friend, colleague, fellow congregant, or club member, etc. It does not need to be a big deal and no one needs to be an expert. The film is powerful and gets people talking, asking questions, and wanting to learn and do more. To learn more about how it works and how to get the film FREE, read this document: Screening "Rural Impact".
- *Join our email list http://groups.google.com/group/marcellusgasinfo
- *Join the BRSC Gas Production Task Force:
- *Contact us: info :at: binghamtonsustainability.org
- *Learn more:
- • Download an informational brochure on Marcellus Shale gas production:Gas Brochure.
- • Watch our video overview and presentations on this page below
- • Read our Resolution regarding this subject: BRSC Resolution Regarding Natural Gas Mining In Tight Formations
- • Read BRSC's comments to the DEC on the draft GEIS: BRSC Draft GEIS Scoping Comments
- • Read a testimony from an area citizen, given at the Allegany NY DEC dSGEIS Scoping meeting:Testimony
- • Other resources available under ""Natural Gas Production Reports and Information" on our Documents Page
- • Links to other sites:
- Regional Organizations
- • Shaleshock (fingerlakes/western southern tier)www.shaleshock.org
- • CDOG (western Chenango, Delaware & Otsego Counties) www.un-naturalgas.org/
- • Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County (GDACC)gdacc.wordpress.com/
- • NY Residents Against Drilling (NY, started in Broome)http://www.nyrad.org
- National & Non-Marcellus Formations
- • Environmental Working Group's law report "drilling around the law"
- • Coalition for the Valle Vidal'sSummary of Local Economic Impacts of Natural Gas Development in Valle Vidal, New Mexico
- • more coming soon
- View our video overview of the issue (see further below for videos from our public forums):
Gas Drilling: Stories from the Front Line
- June 15th, 2009, 7pm-9pm
- Broome Community College Cafeteria, Binghamton, NY
- Moderated by Dave Rossie, Press & Sun-Bulletin columnist
- What every Southern Tier renter and homeowner must know: first-hand reports about living next to natural gas wells; the real story on health impacts, from a world-renowned scientist who exposes what the industry covers up; and what we can do to protect our homes and families.
- Panelists: Theo Colbern,Candace Mingins, Ron Gulla, & Don Barber
- Read the full Press Release
- Download the event Poster
- Gas Drilling: Stories from the Front Line (1)
- Gas Drilling: Stories from the Front Line (2)
- Gas Drilling: Stories from the Front Line (3)
- Gas Drilling: Stories from the Front Line (Q&A)
Making Sure We Get It Right: Health, Land, Law and Natural Gas Production
- October 29, 2008, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
- West Middle School, Binghamton NY
- This powerful forum featured international, national, and local leaders on the issues to provide our community members and our leaders with the information they need in order to understand the impact of natural gas production and how we can protect ourselves. With our region all too familiar with the toxic legacy of IBM, we need to make sure we get this right for the long-term health and safety of our communities.
- Panelists: Dr. Theo Colborn (President, the Endo Disruption Exchange (TEDX)), Bruce Baizel (Attorney, Oil & Gas Accountability Project), Roger Downs (Conservation Associate, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter), Bill Pammer (Commissioner, Sullivan County Division of Planning and Environmental Management), Rachel Treichler (Attorney)
- Watch our video of the forum (3 Parts):
- View powerpoint presentations from the event:
- Dr. Bill Pammer's Presentation
- Dr. Theo Colburn's Presentation Part I of II
- Dr. Theo Colburn's Presentation Part II of II
- Roger Downs' Presentation