Kill the Drill: A Call for a Statewide Ban on Gas Fracking in NY

Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse presents excerpts from several recent NYC hearings and rallies on the controversial proposal to allow Gas Drilling in NY State using the highly toxic "Fracking" gas extraction process. The show focuses on New Yorkers asking the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Governor Patterson to scrap their plans to allow hydraulic fracturing in NY State, especially since the gas deposits are around our reservoirs and watersheds. Given the environmental track record of "Fracking" in other states, there are many calls for a Statewide ban. The show includes interviews with Carl Arnold of Chenago Delaware Ostego Gas (CDOG) and Laura Sheinkopf of SWiM (the Safe Water Movement), and footage from the NYC City Council Hearing and the DEC's NYC Hearing on their Environmental Impact Statement on proposed gas drilling in the NYC watershed and beyond. Additional footage from Manhattan Borough President, Scott Stringers' "Kill the Drill" rally.

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[nyruby]

@BeAnEarthNut You are so right my friend....just as reusing water in ourhomes should be a lot easier but it s a profit water companies are worried about

[aleklaser1]

ASK MORE AFTER GAS-FRACTURING!

Before You'll be killed by Poison Water ! Don't wait !!!

Read about "Bush Cheney Loophole" ( or "Cheney Loophole", or "Halliburton Loophole"):

"...In 2001, a special task force on energy policy convened by Vice President Dick Cheney recommended that Congress exempt hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. /.../The oil -gas industry is the only industry exempt from the SDWA" - Google :"Gasland: Dick Cheney Poisons Your Drinking Water Too"

[Gowanee1]

It is absolutely insane for the powers that be to try to try to force fracking on us and say that this is safe. Kill the drill.

[ad356]

no drilling in Wyoming county. my county is to pretty to ruin. to many people are on wells here, you would ruin everyone's water. are you willing to purchase everyone's house here at above fair market value. this makes your water unusable and your home will be worthless. we should make it so they cannot frack anywhere.

[musketman85]

Solar Power!? Need a lot of real estate to even produce a fraction of what coal or natural gas generator's can put out. Sun doesn't always shine making it an extremely volatile source of power as well. You obviously are completely ignorant to the energy outlook like majority of the people's comments below who just listen to politics and don't apply real science and/or logic to back your opinion with reason.

[BeAnEarthNut]

@bowerinPSU no matter how i look at it, i still say their is no need to frack, power companies just need to invest into Solar Wind even solar heat from sun to make power. But its the greed Large investors that is stopping the progress into the New age of power production because its not as profitable as Oil and Gas Drilling!

[BeAnEarthNut]

@bowerinPSU when the first well was drilled, well water in surrounding homes should be tested, if their is no water contamination bye now, Then their is a chance the Rock may stable to frack and not contaminate wells and or streams when you get closer to sea level. the shame of it all is once its contaminated and Old water test results Lost, you could end up lied to about the Natural levels of what ever was in the water test before the fracking was dun at all. Never lose first water test results

[bowerinPSU]

@BeAnEarthNut I live in Lycoming County, PA. Over 80 wells are currently operational and 1000 more are planned. There has been no water contamination reported and the companies face losing drilling rights if they are found culpable.

[bowerinPSU]

Families in PA could light up their water before all this.

[BLACKIESBOY]

@sdozer1990

It's not medieval at all. It's pure accountabillity and pure common sense. What are they so afraid of if the water is not contaminated by them?

Either they'll be healthy and abdicated, or they'll have 596 "guilty" verdicts for each chemical they poisoned people with.