Tompkins Landowner Coalition

• Video: Check this out!  This excellent overview of the issues surrounding the development of natural gas in New York State was put together by Susan Arbetter and the Vista series team at WCNY.  Watch Groundswell: Hydrofracking In New York State.  You'll need a broadband internet connection to view it, but it's worth your time to watch this video.  Issues and facts without all of the fear and shouting - how about that?  It's very well done. 
  
• Click here to go to the WCNY Vista web site, then click on the "View It Now" button.
  

• News Release:  President Obama backs Natural Gas.  In his State of the Union address the President had good things to say about Natural Gas. 

• Article:  This is a very interesting article in the January issue of the NYSBA Journal by Scott Kurkoski, attorney and head of the natural gas team at Levene Gouldin and Thompson LLP of Vestal, New York.  Lots of good details to consider.  Download the article here.

• Press release from Dryden Safe Energy Coalition (DSEC)

For release at 10:00 A.M, Tuesday, January 10, 2012:
The Dryden Safe Energy Coalition (DSEC) was formed to establish the truth about hydro-fracturing and to distribute data to those wishing facts, not visceral responses or propaganda.  On January 10, 2012, DSEC announced the release of "Frack-enstein," a publication DSEC developed as resource tool to refute the deluge of misinformation being circulated about hydro-fracturing.  This publication is located at http://tinyurl.com/7kgnapv.  It is in pdf format.  Due to the length of the publication and size of the file, we have decided to provide a URL, but not attach the publication itself to this press release. Please allow adequate time for the publication to download.  Although the publication is copyrighted and all rights reserved, permission is granted to the media and public to republish, repost, and redistribute the material and to quote from it, in context, in whole or part.
DSEC co-founder Tom Reynolds said, "Frack-enstein is different from the type of statement about hydro-fracturing people frequently encounter, statements without sources.  DSEC footnotes the sources of information and urges the public to check them out.  We also used a different approach to make the subject a little less dry and a bit more memorable.  For more information, see the DSEC website at Drydensec.org.

• Check out this white paper from natural resources management experts Jeffrey Jacquet and Richard Stedman in the Natural Resources department at Cornell University.  Title: "Natural Gas Landowner Coalitions in New York State: Emerging Benefits of Collective Natural Resource Management"   --->  Download the published paper here!
  

• Recently we have joined Clean Growth Now (CGN). CGN (http://www.cleangrowthnow.org/) is an ambitious effort to link all supporters of natural gas development under an umbrella group similar to how the JLCNY covers all landowners coalitions. CGN includes labor, landowners, business, ethnic, and political groups  aligned in support of natural gas.

• We strongly urge you to visit the Joint Landowners Coalition (JLC) webpage often.  They have a current list of topics of interest both in the news and what is going on in Albany.

• The following link will take you to the DEC's new drilling regulations.  It is has all of the new regulations being required by New York State to drill in any gas formation.

• DEC Report: Drilling will foster economic boost.  Article in New York Outdoor News .

• Alternative sources of energy such as wind turbines are definitely necessary for our energy future but are also expensive and having their share of NIMBY ism as seen in the Buffalo News article.

• Senator Thomas Libous tells down stat to "butt out" of hydrofracking debate.  Article in the Ithaca Journal.