By Jim Willis on Nov 5, 2009 in Environment, Marcellus Shale | 0 Comments
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has caved to the anti-drillers who are screaming for more time to read the 800-page draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS)–the proposed new drilling regulations all drillers in New York would have to follow when drilling in the Marcellus Shale. They’ve added another 30 days to the [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 1, 2009 in Environment, Marcellus Shale | 0 Comments
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has finally released its Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement for drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Instead of making drilling companies do an environmental impact statement for each well they drill, the DEC decided to do one “generic” environmental impact statement that will apply to all drilling [...]
By Jim Willis on Sep 29, 2009 in Environment, Government & Politics, Taxes & Spending | 1 Comment
I live in New York where everything is taxed. So when there was a recent national outcry over the Federal government proposing cow-farting taxes on farmers because the eco-nuts have finally gone berserk…I was unfazed. In our state everything gets taxed sooner or later. Now it’s water. Hey, farting, water, maybe we’ll tax oxygen next, [...]
By Jim Willis on Sep 21, 2009 in Energy, Environment, Government & Politics | 0 Comments
Electric & Gas Rates Going Up – No Surprise There
The company that bought out our local electric & gas supplier, New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) about a year ago agreed, as part of the deal, to not request a rate increase for a year. They lied. Their first request came in January, just [...]
By Jim Willis on Dec 7, 2008 in Environment, Marcellus Shale | 2 Comments
Here’s the latest update: While New York dittles around, Pennsylvania is producing natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation. Right now. Today. Film at eleven.
The above is the sum total of what’s happened over the past several months with regard to drilling natural gas in Broome County and surrounding regions. There is a (surprisingly) somewhat [...]
By Jim Willis on Nov 28, 2008 in Environment, Government & Politics, Mayor Matt Ryan | 0 Comments
Has anyone else who reads the Press & Sun-Bulletin noticed how John Hill, so-called reporter, simply regurgitates the Democrat Party line from Mayor Matt Ryan and the Binghamton City Council? Every article about the city that he writes is slanted to to give the Citizen Action gang (Ryan, City Council, and the hard left cabal [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 7, 2008 in Environment, Marcellus Shale | 5 Comments
A quick update on the Marcellus Shale Formation drilling proposed for our area. Yesterday the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a preliminary finding with respect to permits being filed to drill for natural gas in the state. You can read it here: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/47554.html.
You may recall earlier posts I’ve made about local farmers [...]
