Upcoming PAUSE activities and selected events in Newfield and the Finger Lakes region
For a complete Tompkins County and regional events calendar, visit un-natural gas.org
Thursday, May 17, 2012
5 to 7 pm, Borg Warner Room of Tompkins Co Public Library, 101 E. Green St., Ithaca
Gas Pipelines: What Municipalities Need to Know
Twenty interstate natural gas pipeline systems crisscross the region from West Virginia to Maine. As gas drilling operations expand, thousands of miles of new pipelines will be needed to connect existing pipelines to gas wells.
Learn
- the difference between gathering, transmission and distribution lines;
- who has jurisdiction over the various types of lines;
- how pipelines are permitted, regulated and monitored;
- how municipalities can prepeare for an increase in pipeline networks
Sponsored by Tompkins County Council of Governments and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
7 pm, First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St., Ithaca
The Truth and Consequences of Fracking
Jessica Ernst, a scientist from Alberta, Canada who is suing the EnCana gas company for contaminating her water well with methane and toxic chemicals and the Alberta regulators for negligence and unlawful activities, will present “The Truth and Consequences of Fracking”.
Alberta has been hit hard by fracking for coal bed methane. Industry, the regulators and Alberta government try hard to silence Ernst. She is visiting New York to help residents understand the dire consequences of fracking before it begins in the state.
Ms. Ernst's Ithaca presentation is sponsored by sponsored by Shaleshock, Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition, and the Social Justice Committee of First Unitarian Society of Ithaca.
About Jessica Ernst:
Jessica Ernst, from Rosebud, Alberta, Canada, is an environmental consultant to the oil and gas industry with 30 years of experience. Speaking to worldwide audiences about the consequences of fracking, she has traveled to Ireland and to the United Nations, where she received UNANIMA International’s “Woman of Courage” award for her efforts to hold companies accountable for environmental harm done by fracking.Ernst sent comments and provided extensive documentation to the New York DEC during its public comment period last year.
to ban
High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing
in Newfield