The Groton Resource Awareness Coalition (GRAC) presents the Groton town board with the results of their petition to ban hydrofracking. Video in part 1 starts with privilege of the floor, followed by presentation of petitions. Dyan L Lombardi, first speaker, details how she was enticed by a landsman for Anschutz into signing a lease and what that has brought --"a check so small its not worth driving to Ithaca to cash...a revolving lease with no end that is next to impossible to cancel"...and, despite a lease addendum regarding surface rights," a (possible) storage depot for all type of equipment and all manner of chemicals. The board hears from other resisdents and supporters of a ban, followed by a 15-minute presentation by GRAC. The lack of any town public hearing on this issue is expressed, along with many speaking in support of a ban with well constructed arguments. Following Privilege of the floor Joe Packard reads the group's statement which refers to the many presentations in the past few months before the town board and in the town by experts including Bill Kapel, Sandra Steingraber, Deborah Rogers, Bill Podulka, and Don Barber on "the serious negative environmental, economic, and public health impacts that un-conventional gas extraction will bring to Groton". The statement continues "Though we have learned much about the process of gas extraction, we have not yet discussed how the people of Graoton feel about the industrialization of this town". Thus GRAC conducted a petition drive regarding a ban which surveyed about 1/3rd of town residents which they presented to the board. In part 2, the board invites Marc Perosio of Southern Cayuga County and Cortland County Coalition to give a pro-drilling presentation who had the last word. The board heard about how good the roads are in Bradford County, and his report of his visit with two or three land-owners with wells on their property who professed no problem what-so-ever. They heard how much cleaner burning natural gas is, and how it has less carbon foot-print than other fuels (ignoring all the inconvenient truths). He told the board that he is working on a proposal for a natural gas fueling station in Groton for trucks and other converted motor vehicles that would tap into an existing pipeline to join 500 some fueling stations across the county.
1-Groton Town Board 4/10/12 natural gas stocks | |
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