My Irish nephew tells me there’s shale gas under the farm that’s been in our family for four centuries. “That’s nice,” I tell him. “Get a lawyer for the landmen and ear plugs for the wind and solar crowd.” In Otsego County, it’s four years...
Heidi Mitchell Kelly Harding Franklin Township Residents Co-Founders, Franklin Citizens for Truth We are the co-founders of Franklin Citizens for Truth, a group formed to bring our community together to correct the misinformation on natural gas development and give a voice to landowners wanting to...
On July 15 landowners and industry will be joining together for the largest pro-natural gas rally in New York state. Landowners have spent four years waiting for Albany to allow the harvesting of our deeded rights. While we have been waiting, we have witnessed a fear...
It was MDN’s pleasure to attend a screening of the newly released Truthland movie this week at the Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin, New York. Truthland is a short film, about 34 minutes in length, that takes as its mission the debunking of Josh Fox’s well-known movie Gasland. The...
Like many who grew up in the Upper Delaware River valley, the mere mention of Gasland has grated on me like Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem. It’s not just the facts he got wrong or the truth he distorted. You expect that sort of...
This past week the anti-natural gas crowd held a public meeting in Vestal, New York, Broome County at the Methodist Church. The meeting was sponsored by several anti-shale gas groups including Vestal Residents for Safe Energy, Citizens Action, New Yorkers Against Fracking, Sierra Club, Town...
I journeyed to Binghamton’s Recreation Park on June 3rd out of curiosity to see how natural gas opponents “2nd Big Splash” was going to play out as far as attendance went. I arrived at 11:30 a.m. wondering if many people would be in attendance, or if it...
If you were at the Wyoming County Fairgrounds this past Friday you might have been there for Ma Greenley’s breakfast burritos or sausage sandwich lunch, but most likely you were there for the Gas & Oil business expo. The Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce held a...
New York State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (125th Legislative District – Ithaca) recently distributed a letter to all her fellow State Senate and General Assembly members urging them to speak to Governor Andrew Cuomo against natural gas development in the state. She makes six principal assertions, all of...
Normally I don’t spend much of my time reading blogs (except this one), especially those following articles related to Josh Fox. Most submitters seemed to be enamored with this purveyor of solar cells as the prevailing winds blow along the global green algae way. Following...
Last week I attended a presentation in Ithaca, New York, Tompkins County. The Unitarian Church in Ithaca hosted Jessica Ernst of Alberta, Canada to come in and speak to the public on her experience with the natural gas industry in Canada. Tony Ingraffea also spoke...
A little while back, I wrote about the stark hypocrisy on the part of some of our friends on the other side, in a post entitled “There Ought To Be A (Natural Gas) Law.” We’re all hypocrites to some extent, of course, and it may...