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New Resource: Natural Gas Leases Page on RSSBinghamton.com »

I’ve just posted a new resource page on the blog titled Natural Gas Leases. It lists local landowner groups who either have formed, or are in the process of forming, for the purpose of negotiating land leases with energy companies who want to drill for natural gas around Greater Binghamton. The resource page also lists [...]

Grimm’s Fairy Tales Meets Drilling for Natural Gas in Broome County »

Another chapter in Grimm’s (Environmentally Amended) Fairy Tales…
Once upon a time big bad energy companies did something really really bad. They wanted to drill for natural gas where (gasp) natural gas actually existed! Can you imagine raping the ground for something natural? Anyway, these big bad energy companies were of course enabled by and codependent [...]

Drilling for Natural Gas in Greater Binghamton - An Update »

A lot has happened since I’ve first written about drilling for natural gas around the Greater Binghamton region. For one thing, groups of land owners have banded together and signed contracts worth millions. Yes, millions. Some local farmers who have struggled for years working the farm, paying high taxes and trying to hold on to [...]

Will Natural Gas be Broome County’s Economic Savior? »

In the early and mid-20th century, Broome County, NY was a boom town. Some 20,000 people worked for Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company. By the mid-20th century, another 20,000 worked at what had been a little startup founded in Endicott in 1888, originally known as the Tabulating Machine Company, later renamed IBM. Yes, IBM was started here! [...]