Water
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Saturday's meeting of the Coalition of Watershed Towns. Photo and videos by Julia Reischel.
Taking advantage of a “Halley's comet” moment of influence, the Coalition of Watershed Towns has negotiated a new agreement with the New York City Department of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 11:31 am
In the Saugerties Times this week: A local environmental group has sponsored a study of the Blue Mountain Reservoir, which provides water to the town of Saugerties. The study's author, hydrologist Paul Rubin of HydroQuest in Stone Ridge, says the town... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010 - 8:13 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here. To see a larger version of this cartoon, click here. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Tonight's episode of CSI: "Fracked." Airs at 9pm on CBS.
Two men are murdered right before exposing a natural gas company for poisoning residents in a farming town, and the CSIs must discover who is responsible for their deaths on the next episode of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 10:49 am
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is resorting to a subpoena to get engineering firm Halliburton to reveal its secret recipe for hydraulic fracturing, multiple news agencies are reporting this morning. The order is part of the EPA's effort to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Wonder of wonders, there is some long-awaited news in the Daily Freeman this afternoon. Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate Coalition of Watershed Towns, which have been sparring... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 11:34 am
Do frackers have to get permits to inject diesel fuel into gas wells? The EPA says yes -- a position that's come under industry attack, via a lawsuit that's currently working its way through federal court.
Gas drillers using hydraulic fracturing... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 4:45 pm
Above, a photo of snow falling in Davenport, from reader Mike Wilkie, via Facebook: "About a 1/2 inch on the ground here in Davenport. It is really coming down now."
This is turning into quite a white-out. The National Weather Service office in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:37 pm
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 9:26 am
Akira Ohiso at Zinc Plate Press recently captured photographic evidence of anti-fracking graffiti taggers in Livingston Manor.
Speaking of fracking: An anti-drilling group called Action Otsego is planning a protest this Thursday, near a hydrofractured... Read more
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