Topics:
Constitution Pipeline
Legal & Home Rule
Proposed DEC Regulations of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing
Socioeconomic & Cultural Impacts
Health & Safety
Water Quality & Pollution
Air Quality & Pollution
Roads & Transportation Impacts
Geology & Seismicity
2011 SGEIS
2009 SGEIS
Websites
Constitution Pipeline
- Federal Energy Regulation Commission information on the Constitution Pipeline
- Instructions to ‘click link, then enter Docket Number PF12-9.
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- Instructions to ‘click link, then enter Docket Number PF12-9.
- Otsego 2000 Comments
- Pace Environmental Law Clinic Comments, on behalf of Stop the Pipeline
- Army Corps of Engineers Comments
- Clean Air Council Comments
- Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society Comments
- Delaware RiverKeeper Network Comments
- New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Comments
- Trout Unlimited Comments
- US Fish and Wildlife Comments
- To add your comments by November 9th, click here
Legal & Home Rule
- June 14, 2013 Public Forum in Morris, NY on Fracking and Home Rule, full video
- “Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boom or Bust?” Elisabeth Radow. New York State Bar Journal: November/December 2011.
- Regulatory Takings Claims: Banning Hydrofracking Is Not A “Taking” of Property, Mary Jo Long, Esq, February 2012.
- Local Officials Expose Their Towns to Unnecessary Risk, David Slottje, Esq., October 17, 2011
- Legislative Immunity of Local Elected Officials, Douglas Zamelis Esq., June 30, 2011.
- Memo to the Town of Middlefield, Re: Local Jurisdiction over Gas Drilling, Bob Feller, Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, May 12, 2011.
- Town of Middlefield: Land Use Analysis: Heavy Industry and Oil, Gas or Solution Mining and Drilling, prepared by GreenPlan Inc. May 10, 2011.
- The cases of Cooperstown Holstein Corp. vs. Town of Middlefield and Norse Energy Corp. vs. Town of Dryden
- Otsego 2000 Comments on the Town of Middlefield Zoning, May 10, 2011.
- The Exercise of Local Control Over Gas Extraction, Michelle Kennedy, Esq.
- Protest Petitions Under Town Law Section 265, Douglas Zamelis, Esq.
Proposed DEC Regulations of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing
- December 2012, DEC posts draft regulations on hydrofracking. Read them here.
- Notice of Revised Rule Making
- Otsego 2000 official comments on the 2013 Draft Regulations
- Lou Allstadt comments
Socioeconomic & Cultural Impacts
- February 2013, “Shale and Wall Street: Was the Decline in Natural Gas Prices Orchestrated?” Deborah Rogers.
- February 2013, “Drill, Baby, Drill: Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance?” J. David Hughes.
- Preservation League of New York 2012 Seven to Save Nomination – Marcellus and Utica Shale Regions
- “The Economic Impact of Shale Gas Development: Can New York Learn from Texas?” Jannette M. Barth, Ph.D., May 5, 2012.
- Fracking Strikes Out in Cooperstown, Jessica A. Knoblauch, EarthJustice, Fall 2012
- Maps of the Marcellus Shale and details on ground water, municipal bans, etc. Com-piled by Karen Edelstein, July 25, 2011.
- “Declining Resources, Increasing Need: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation,” Environmental Advocates of New York.
- “The Cost of Fracking,” Environment Maryland
- “Do State and Local Regulations that Prohibit Gas Drilling Based on Police and Land Use Powers Violate the Commerce Clause?” Anne Marie Garti, August 1, 2011.
- “The Economic Impact of Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling: What Have We Learned? What are the Limitations?” David Kay. Working Paper Series: A Comprehensive Economic Impact Analysis of Natural Gas Extraction in the Marcellus Shale, April 2011.
- “The Fiscal Effects of Fracking in Otsego County, NY,” Harry Levine, August 2011.
- Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Historic Resources in the Town of Middlefield, Jessie Ravage, Historic Preservation Expert, May 2011.
- “Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boom or Bust?” Elisabeth Radow. New York State Bar Journal: November/December 2011.
- “Natural Gas Development: Views of New York and Pennsylvania Residents in the Marcellus Shale Region,” Richard Stedman. CaRDI Reports, Issue No. 39, January 2011.
- Otsego 2000 comments to the EPA on the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing, September 2010
Health & Safety
- Nicole Dillingham, Otsego 2000 Board of Directors President, letter to Dr. Nirav Shah, Re: Health Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing, February 15, 2013.
- “Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health,” Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald. New Solutions, Vol. 22(1) 51-77, 2012
- “Chemical and Biological Risk Assessment for Natural Gas Extraction in New York,” Ron Bishop, PhD, C.H.O. January 2011.
- Elected Officials to Protect New York Health Impact Letter to John Adgate, Chair, Occupational and Environmental Health, December 9, 2012
- “Health Care Industry Impacts, Troy Township, Bradford County, PA,” Staci Covey. Guthrie, May 10, 2011.
- “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: New York’s Failure to Track or Treat Fracking Waste En-dangers Public Health and the Environment,” Katherine Nadeau. Environmental Advocates of New York, May 2012.
- “Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydrofracking,” James L. “Chip” Northrup.
- Otsego 2000 comments submitted to the EPA, Re: Hydraulic Fracturing Study Design, September 28, 2010.
Water Quality & Pollution
- “Re: Potential Relationships Between Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water Resources,” Ron Bishop, PhD. C. H. O. September 13, 2010.
- Statement to Governor Cuomo, September 15, 2011, Robert Howarth, Ph.D. Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy.
- Gas Drilling Companies Hold Data Needed by Researchers to Assess Risk to Water Quality, Abrahm Lustgarten, May 17, 2011.
- “Gas Drilling In Drinking Water Watersheds,” Win McIntyre, Consultant, Water Resources Management, Otsego Lake Watershed Coordinator.
- Private Water Well Testing in Areas Impacted by Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling, New York State Water Resources Institute.
- James Northrup on Hydrofracking and Aquifer Pollution via Faults, by Sustainable Otsego, August 2010, 27-minute video.
- Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accompanying Gas-Well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing; Stephen G. Osborn, et al.
- RE: Proposed Rulemaking for Unconventional Gas Development (July 23, 2011), Otsego 2000. August 23, 2011.
- “Re: Natural Gas Brine Dispersal on Roadways and the Risk of Surface and Ground-water Contamination,” Paul Rubin. HydroQuest PA, November 15, 2011.
- Trace Element Compositions of Brine Impacted Soils and Produced Water in Osage County, Oklahoma; Dan Weber, et. al.
- Water Pollution Risks Associated wtih Marcellus Shale, Dr. Sheldon Reaven and Daniel Rozell, SUNY Stony Brook, published in Risk Analysis
- Hydrogeologic Concerns Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing; Muskingum River Watershed, Eastern Ohio
Prepared by HydroQuest for Southeastern Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water, October 17, 2012. Prepared by HydroQuest
Air Quality & Pollution
Roads & Transportation Impacts
- “Frack Truck Impacts On New York Villages and Towns,” James L. “Chip” Northrup and Jeffrey Reynolds.
Geology & Seismicity
2011 SGEIS
- Otsego 2000 responds to the 2011 dSGEIS – Otsego 2000 Comments on the Draft
- Otsego 2000 2011 dSGEIS Comments – Signatories
- Otsego 2000 letter to Commissioner J. Martens, June 16, 2011
- Comments on the 2011 dSGEIS from towns and organizations:
- Comments on the 2011 dSGEIS from individuals:
- Comments to the New York State Assembly Hearing on the 2011 dSGEIS, Ron Bishop, Ph.D, C.H.O; October 6, 2011.
- Drilling and the DEC: Responding to New Guidelines. Anthony R. Ingraffea Ph.D., P.E. Ithaca, NY, July 25, 2011.
- “Local Control & the SGEIS 2.0,” Helen Slottje, Esq. & David Slottje, Esq. Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc. Ithaca, NY, July 25, 2011.
- “NY Water Rangers Call Out Gov. Cuomo & DEC for Fast-Tracking Fracking Despite Flawed Proposal, Lack of Information,” New York Water Rangers Press Re-lease, October 6, 2011.
2009 SGEIS
- Executive Summary and Full Comments, Nicole Dillingham, President of the Board of Directors, Otsego 2000. December 2009.
- Comments written and compiled by the law firm of Zarin and Steinmetz representing Otsego 2000. December 2009.
- Zarin & Steinmetz Letter
- Letter by Otsego 2000 Executive Director Robin Krawitz describing the characteristics of Otsego County.
- Declaration by Historian Jessie A. Ravage on historic resources in Otsego County.
- Attachment 1: Resume of Jessie A. Ravage
- Attachment 2: Map of National/State Register Listings and Potential His-toric Areas by Jessie Ravage
- New York City Comments on: Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program – Well Permit Issuance for Horizontal Drilling and High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing to Develop the Marcellus Shale and Other Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs. Decem-ber 22, 2009.
- Impact Assessment of Natural Gas Production in the New York City Water Supply Watershed: Final Impact Assessment Report, December 2009. Hazen and Sawyer, Environmental Engineers and Scientists.
Websites
- Action Otsego
- Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition
- Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy
- Catskill Mountain Keeper
- Cayuga Anti Fracking Alliance
- Citizens Campaign for the Environment
- Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes
- Earthjustice
- Flow NY
- Fracking in the Foodshed – 25 minute online presentation
- Gas Main
- Marcellus Drilling News
- New York Department of Conservation
- New Yorkers Against Fracking
- New York Residents Against Drilling
- New York Well Watch
- Otsego 2000
- Otsego Advocacy
- Otsego County Conservation Association
- Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy
- Riverkeeper
- Shale Shock
- Sourcewatch 2011 SGEIS Flaws (wiki site)
- Sourcewatch 2011 SGEIS Responses
- Sustainable Otsego
- Tioga County Landowners Group
- Toxics Targeting
- Un-Natural Gas