gas drilling
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 - 10:28 am
Above: Video taken by Sullivan County radio producer and anti-drilling activist Sabrina Artel at the DEC's public hearing on gas drilling in Binghamton, November 17, 2011.
In what has become a familiar plot point in the unfolding saga of New York State's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Above: The board of the Town of Dryden unanimously passes a ban on gas drilling on August 2, 2011. Video by ShaleShock, an anti-gas drilling media group.
The first shots in what is likely to become a statewide battle were fired recently, as two lawsuits... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 5:03 pm
The New York Department of Environmental Conservaton has released its long-awaited version of the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) on hydraulic fracturing today. The state is accepting comments on it until December 12.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 - 12:02 pm
Politics around here has always been a little more complicated than Republican vs. Democrat. And with gas drilling emerging as a big -- and party-busting -- issue in the upcoming town elections across New York State, the political landscape is getting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011 - 8:46 pm
Video clip: Andes resident Laurie McIntosh (a.k.a. Story Laurie) delivers her testimony in song, at a public forum on gas drilling last Friday.
On the evening of Friday, August 19, over 100 people crammed into the Andes Central School auditorium to air... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 11, 2011 - 12:20 pm
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 10, 2011 - 2:37 pm
We'll find out tomorrow whether the Delaware River Basin Commission will allow water from the Oquaga Creek, a trout stream that drains into the West Branch of the Delaware River, to be used in hydraulic fracturing projects in Delaware and Broome counties... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 5, 2011 - 9:06 am
Thanks to a certain major worldwide news event, Monday's rally in Albany calling for a ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York state didn't get that much press.
WGXC attended the rally, which attracted about 300 anti-fracking protesters and featured... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011 - 10:34 am
Image from Sabrina Artel's Facebook wall; illustration by Heather Carson.
As of last Sunday, Sullivan County has its own patron (matron?) saint: Sabrina Artel. She's the one-woman powerhouse behind Trailer Talk, a traveling radio show produced from Artel... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 - 8:38 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context on this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
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