New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today that Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation has agreed to publicly disclose its policy and procedures for eliminating or minimizing the use of toxic substances in its hydraulic fracturing fluids. As a result of the agreement, DiNapoli has withdrawn his shareholder proposal submitted for the [...]
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Agreement to Disclose Fracking Chemic...
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today that Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation has agreed to publicly disclose its policy and procedures for eliminating or minimizing the use of toxic substances in its hydraulic fracturing fluids. As a result of the agreement, DiNapoli has withdrawn his shareholder proposal submitted for the [...]
Fracking Webinar Tuesday in Waterloo
There will be a Webinar Tuesday in Waterloo to discuss hydraulic fracking. The webinar will be hosted at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Offices in the Main Street Shoppe Centre in Waterloo from 3-4:30pm.
The proposed hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale is a topic of great debate. Municipalities are facing a com [...]
Letter on Fracking Voted Down
by Joe Siccardi
Reveille Between the Lakes
The conversation about Seneca Meadows’ acceptance of drill waste from Pennsylvania fracking operations that started two weeks ago at the committee level continued Tuesday night (May 8) at the full board of supervisors meeting. This time, however, the outcome was different.
The environmental affairs c [...]
EPA to reduce gas drilling pollution
Drilling regulations will be altered via the Obama administration in hopes of reducing air pollution. photo provided
The Obama administration is issuing the first-ever standards to control air pollution from gas wells that are drilled using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
But the administration, which has strongly backed na [...]
New Book Tells Story of Gas Drilling
In this Nov. 29, 2011, photo provided by Cornell University Press, author Tom Wilber is shown outside the Town of Union Office Building in Endwell, NY. Wilber covered Marcellus Shale natural gas rush for the Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin before leaving the paper to work full-time on his book. “Under the Surface,” will be released by Corne [...]
