BillHustonBlog: Many upcoming regional fracking/LP-related events

Please visit the calendar for more events: http://nyrad.org/calendar.html

Note: not all of the events below are on the calendar yet...
I will try to add them soon...

Wed Sept 21:

An Evening of Fracking Films, Forums, and Fizz - Syracuse
5pm – 10pm Palace Theater, 2384 James Street, Syracuse, NY 13206 (map)
http://www.shaleshockcny.org/evening-of-fracking-films-forums-and-fizz.html
Citizen's Marcellus Shale Commission meeting 6pm – 9pm Lycoming College's Heim Hall Room G-11, Williamsport, PA

Thu Sept 22

Elmira forum on the SGEIS
w/Chip Northrup, Ron Bishop, Rachel Treichler
http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2011/09/elmira-forum-on-gas-drilling-in-ny-thu.html
6:30 p.m. Steele Memorial Library Elmira
Wysox/Towanda, Pa.
Citizens Marcellus Shale Commission Hearings Thursday, September 22, 2011 | 6-9 pm
Wysox Fire Hall, Lake Road, Wysox (outside Towanda)
Get Directions Learn more and register to participate

http://citizensmarcellusshale.com/
Town of Ulysses ban leaders to speak ! - Thursday 9/22 Endicott Library 6:45 pm
7:00pm Watkins Glen Village Boardroom Municipal Building, 303 N. Franklin St., Watkins Glen -- Dr. Charles M Sorenson, a PhD Chemical Engineer, will give a Power Point presentation at the Watkins Glen Village Board meeting room. Dr. Sorenson has 14 years expeerience in oil refinery engineering. He comes to speak about the LPG facility proposed for Watkins Glen.

Sat Sept 24

12:00 – 3:00pm Sidney Public Library - GASLAND w/informal Q+A
Clean Air Council presents a free community workshop on clean air:
“Protecting the Air We All Breathe: Air & Health Impacts from Natural Gas Operations and Tools for Cleaner Air”
2-4pm. Mountain View High School in Kingsley, PA
Explore the potential health impacts from the expanding natural gas industry and equip participants with tools to protect everyone’s right to breathe clean air. The workshop will cover topics ranging from regulations, air quality and health impacts to public commenting, air monitoring, and mapping of natural gas operations. More info: (215) 567-4004 x 121 mwalker@cleanair.org
Moving Planet: GDACC screening of Gasland 1pm & Split Estate 3pm. Discussion following each film, refreshments. 9 Main Street, Cortland, NY.

Sun Sept 25

Clean Water Walk to Dimock 1pm – 4pm Price Chopper, Montrose, PA

Tue Sept 27

DEC Hearing on the Watkins Glen LP gas storage
http://shaleshock.org/2011/09/watkins-glen-lpg-hearing/
7pm in the Watkins Glen High School Auditorium, 301 12th St.

Wed Sept 28

Madison County Natural Gas Development Group -- Town Tour

The Madison County Natural Gas Development Working Group has met almost monthly and addressed several of the most frequently voiced topics from the 2010 Listening Tour, and would like to share a summary of our activities. We will meet according to the following schedule and encourage interested parties from those towns and neighboring towns to attend.

Time Town Location
9:00 – 10:00 am DeRuyter Town Hall
10:30 – 11:30 noon Lebanon Town Hall
12:30 – 1:30 pm Brookfield Town Hall
2:30 – 3:30pm Eaton (Morrisville) Town Hall

Thu Sept 29

Movie: Cluster fracked w/David Rovics, Oneonta UU
Shale Show With Chip Northrup & Kelly Branigan - New Berlin, NY
7pm – 9pm St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 40 South Main St., New Berlin (map)
Guests Chip Northrup and Kelly Branigan

Fri Sept 30

Binghamton UU Church:
Movie: Cluster fracked Music by David Rovics
Potluck @ 6pm, movie at 7pm.

Sun Oct 2

• GDACC Monthly meeting, 5pm, 9 Main Street, Cortland, NY.

Tue Oct. 4

Ian Urbana Cornell 4:30

Thu Oct 6:

Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation
Public Hearing: Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (rdSGEIS) governing natural gas drilling
**Click here to view public hearing notice**
Hamilton Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany, New York
Time: 9:30 A.M. Contact: Michael Szydlo (518) 455-4363
Media Contact: Assembly Press Office (518) 455-3888

Sat Oct 8

9 - 10 AM: DEC Commissioner Joe Martens Hosts Online Town Hall via Citizen Connects: http://governor.ny.gov/citizenconnects/

Sun Oct 9th, 2011

Gas Facts Fall Fest The Buffalo Irish Center 245 Abbott Rd Buffalo, NY 2pm-5pm

Sat Oct 15:

1:00 – 3:30 pm A free, public forum: Drilling and the DEC: Responding to Economic Impacts Women’s Community Building, 100 W. Seneca St, Ithaca.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4pm??

Cortland County Gas Drilling Task Force Responding to the SGEIS

Wednesday, October 19, 2011. 6-8pm

How to Craft and Adopt Local Laws to Protect Land and Natural Resources from High Impact Industrial Land Uses Cortland County Office Building Auditorium

Friday, October 21

6:00pm DRBC Hearing to Consider Adoption of the Regulations Allowing Drilling - Trenton, NJ

7-9pm When Home Becomes a Gasfield - Bradford Co, PA Landowner Speaks - Danby Town Hall, 1830 Danby Rd, Danby, NYA Conversation with Bradford County Landowner Ruth Tonachel Ruth, a 6th generation resident of Towanda,

Saturday, October 29- Nov 2, 2011

Marcellus Panel at APHA - Washington, DC

The American Public Health Association (APHA) has approved a panel to present on the impacts of shale gas extraction at their next annual conference, which typically draws over 10,000 public health professionals. The speakers for this panel being coordinated by CHEC are: A. R. Ingraffea, PhD, PE; Conrad Dan Volz, DrPH, MPH; Robert Field, PhD; Jerome A. Paulson, MD, FAAP; and Susan Christopherson, PhD. - Slot: 4379.0 - SCI: Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM. Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH of CHEC will also be giving a free-standing oral presentation about FracTracker.org and its ability to guide decision-making surrounding shale gas drilling on November 2, 2011: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM. Learn more about the conference here: http://www.apha.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting/

Thursday, November 17