New York State to Require Environmental Impact Statement for Large Scale LPG Storage in NY Watershed

February 7th, 2011 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment
A Salt Cavern Underground Natural Gas Storage Reservoir Configuration. Photo: PB Energy Storage Services Inc.
A Salt Cavern Underground Natural Gas Storage Reservoir Configuration. Photo: PB Energy Storage Services Inc.

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. –  Public alarm over plans to store liquefied petroleum gas in salt caverns near here has spiked in recent weeks after the state ruled in November that the project’s developer would need to produce a full environmental impact statement.

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Marcellus Shale: The Real Price of Compulsory Integration In New York

December 7th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | | 2 comments
Workers adjust a drilling rig at Anschutz Exploration Corp.‘s natural gas well in Big Flats, N.Y. Photo: Peter Mantiu
Workers adjust a drilling rig at Anschutz Exploration Corp.‘s natural gas well in Big Flats, N.Y. Photo: Peter Mantiu
The natural gas industry made Joe Todd an offer he couldn’t refuse.

He told them no, but New York State’s industry-drafted 2005 “compulsory integration” law made resistance pointless.

Todd had turned away a landman who tried last year to convince him to lease his property to a Denver-based gas driller. Then he received an official letter in January that said he had to surrender his subterranean property rights for a financial stake in the same Colorado driller’s new well operation less than a mile from his home in Big Flats, N.Y. He ripped up the letter and threw it in the trash.

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[VIDEO] Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water

November 29th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment



Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water is a major investigative series on how foreign mining companies threaten the largest supply of fresh surface water in America as they begin to operate in the upper Midwest. In a video interview, reporter Tiffany Danitz Pache talks about her comprehensive six-part story.  In her reporting, she focused on the different approaches three states – Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota – have taken when confronting the same issues on how to protect clean water supplies.

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Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water: Part VI: Minnesota: This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land

November 22nd, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment

Acid mine drainage from Spruce Road in Minnesota. Photo: Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
Acid mine drainage from Spruce Road in Minnesota. Photo: Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness

More than a quarter of a million people a year visit the legendary Boundary Waters Wilderness in Minnesota to hike, camp and canoe its million acres of untouched forests, ancient rocks and fresh water lakes. The natural wilds abound free from the sound of motors, the glare of lamplight, or the views of telephone poles and wires. There are no roads to the inner lakes. It is one of 50 “Destinations of a Lifetime,” according to National Geographic.

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