Save Our Catskills

Marcellus Shale, a natural gas found thousands of feet below the Catskills and other parts of the Appalachian Mountain Range, has been gaining the attention of Texas Energy companies. This specific Shale has been accumulating for over 300 million years deep within the earth's crust. To further stall our dire inevitable need for renewable energy sources and specifically to make money, greedy Texas energy companies are attempting to purchase leases to drill wells on the property of Catskill Landowners. If their plans pan out, they will drill 7,000-10,000 ft. into the surface, using methods of directional drilling and fracking. The effects of drilling on the Catskill environment have the potential to be devastating. Carcinogens that accompany deep drilling also have the ability to penetrate our water supply--- a water supply that provides drinking water to NYC through aqueducts connected to the Catskill Watersheds. Perhaps the most devastating effects of drilling will be the endangerment of the natural beauty of this region, and the carbon emissions that come with the further use of fossil fuels. Apparently for some, the green of money conquers the verdant hue of our pastoral countryside. This beautiful region has inspired painters like Thomas Cole and his contemporary artists of the Hudson River School, writers like Washington Irving, and poets like William Cullen Bryant. We can and we must, prevent this drilling before it's too late!


Check out this link for more info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/node/290

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Catskill Mountains
• Catskills
• Marcellus Shale
• Global Warming
• Energy Crisis
• Hydrocarbons
• Appalachian
• Mountains

[SirLude13]

I was just there in the Catskills yesterday. Spent the night camping. NY state has 2 beautiful parks in the Catskills & Adirondacks.

Preservation is a must at all costs.

Thank you for the awareness vid and who is the music?

[Mattcc9]

Your welcome and thanks for watching.

The music is "Nocturne in G minor" by Chopin

[PennsylvaniaLand]

These companies have a no footprint policy, meaning after they drill for that one month the land will look as if nothing was done. However you're town will become more wealthy, now able to upgrade schools, hospitals, and more. This is an incredible opportunity for your town and the landowners, who have been on the grind the past 200 years, to flourish with no environmental damage whatsoever. It's just plain ignorance to claim the only beneficiaries for this discovery are the oil companies.

[Mattcc9]

I respect your opinion and agree that landowners will also financially benefit from the situation at hand. The purpose of this amateur video is to specifically prevent drilling in Catskill State Park and to protect the Delaware River. There are currently no restrictions regarding the proximity of wells to the Delaware. Also it is well known that a large quantity of chemicals that accompany fracking remain within the earth. Will the no footprint policy prevail here?

[PennsylvaniaLand]

This amateur video is so misleading. These "evil, greedy" companies can only drill if the mineral rights owners allow them to. Obviously the landowners are just as greedy as the companies they are signing their land over to. They are becoming millionaires overnight, unlike these companies who spend decades working to make this money, while decreasing our dependance on foreign oil. You all are the same people who complain about gas prices. We get more gas, gas prices go down.

[Mattcc9]

Companies also have the right to withhold information regarding chemicals used to the public. Instances of harmful chemical leaching have occurred in the past. Also, let us not overlook the ecological disturbances regarding Catskill organisms, some federally endangered. Personally, I believe oil as an energy source to be dead. We are systematically scared into believing nuclear energy dangerous, and our government simply neglects the potentials of solar power. The gas crisis is a damn joke.

[shinokiba]

I say frank, who gives a crap.

[shinokiba]

@freddiandgo 20% of teenagers in Sullivan County drops out of highschool.

[shinokiba]

@darkendblu Then on my land, I live in Sullivan County and I welcome the Texans. I will gladly sell my home for money.

[shinokiba]

@monseyhunt The land is already ruined and our water is undrinkable, I say give my friends some jobs and lets fuck it up some more.

[shinokiba]

@abighouse1 I live in Catskills, our unemployment is 30 percent and my drinking water is undrinkable. If you drink my town's water, you will get sick. I have to buy bottled water for me and my cats. These images only show the good parts of the Catskills, the rest is crap. I live in Sullivan County New York, and I welcome the Texans.

[shinokiba]

@Khamomil New York City owns the water in the Catskills, while my drinking water is already polluted. The water is my town is already undrinkable, all the clean water goes downstate. Let the Texans do whatever they want, I don't care about downstate anymore.

[ozgood1x]

I don't give a Damn about NY City. They come up here and inflate home prices and hate everybody that isn't Jewish. I've been the target of that hate, and I'll shout it loud and clear so EVERYONE can hear. Let THEM lay down in the paths of the drilling equipment if they want to save the land. Let THEM sacrifice everything.

[aon10003]

If you can build a drill station 300 meters below water level that doesnt pollute, why cant you do it at land?

[The096757]

if there were more parks and camping areas people would visit and not want the area exploited. the more homes that are built in places like this, the more people who will want the area used for fracking since they will receive a a payment.

this area should have been made a national park decades ago.

[Khamomil]

@shinokiba

But look at what happened to ppl who leased their land to gas co for drilling! You may get financial relief in the short term but the fouling of the water table for all ppl living downstream including NYC, and the environmental devastation and the sickness, all these damages are impossible to fix and their cost cannot be estimated like the BP oilspill in the GOM

GET THE INFO, DON'T LEASE YOUR LAND TO GAS COs!.