November 23rd, 2010 | Bulldog Blog | Peter Mantius |
Dr. Earl Robinson, a pulmonologist who lives less than a mile away, noted that people who live near landfills often have higher rates of lung and bladder cancer than those who don’t.
ELMIRA, N.Y. — Trucks hauling rock cuttings from drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania regularly cross the New York State border these days to dump in the Chemung County Landfill seven miles east of Elmira.
Continue reading Pennsylvania Gas Drillers Dumping Radioactive Waste in New York
November 16th, 2010 | Bulldog Blog | Susan Trento | If you go to The New York Times, click on Business and then click on Energy, you can see the country’s energy future unfold. Gone are the promised green jobs from the Obama administration. Wind energy companies are losing contracts. Solar panel manufacturing plants are closing. The Obama White House has given up on climate change “cap and trade” legislation and is facing a new Congress with members ready to reign in the EPA.
Continue reading America’s Energy Future
November 9th, 2010 | Bulldog Blog | Peter Mantius |
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Both sides of the raging battle over natural gas drilling in New York State agree that the state agency charged with protecting the environment and issuing drilling permits has been gutted so severely that it’s no longer capable of doing its job.
Continue reading The Marcellus Shale Play: Enviros and Drillers Agree – State Environmental Regulators Can’t Protect N.Y.
October 18th, 2010 | Bulldog Blog | Peter Mantius |
Photo: Peter Mantius
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Five years ago, when I bought a 194-year-old home on 8 acres overlooking Seneca Lake, the largest of New York’s Finger Lakes, I had no idea that the scenic region would become a prime target for the “rush to drill” natural gas industry. Now, looking west across the deep blue lake at a long-established salt plant on the opposite shore, I see what I fear may be the vanguard of industrial exploitation.
Continue reading The Marcellus Shale Play: A Reporter’s Peaceful Retreat Becomes A Natural Gas Industry Target
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