[LocalLeaguePresidents] FW: Action Alert: Hydraulic Fracturing

Fri Jun 4 15:56:20 CDT 2010

Hi all-

Earlier this afternoon I sent out an Action Alert through Constant Contact
to all members for whom we have email addresses. The email is also below. 

Please share this email and information with your members who have not given
the state League an email address. If you have questions, feel free to
contact me.

Thanks for your help.

Laura   

Laura Ladd Bierman

Executive Director

League of Women Voters of NYS

62 Grand St, Albany, NY 12207

(518) 465-4162

www.lwvny.org 

From: League of Women Voters of NYS [mailto:laura at lwvny.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 4:50 PM
To: laura at lwvny.org
Subject: Action Alert: Hydraulic Fracturing

 League of Women Voters of NYS
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Hydraulic Fracturing Action Alert

We Need Your Action NOW!

The New York State Legislature is currently considering a bill
(A10490/S7592) which would impose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for
the extraction of natural gas or oil until 120 days after the EPA reports on
its Congressionally-mandated study of the effect of hydrofracking on water
quality.  Today LWVNYS wrote a memorandum of support of the moratorium
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103456116615&s=1&e=001OnimxKN9JyyISsQCtPYN4Bs
i-N8Ea6hkXu9sFzh_jKw2n66H1Kiobv1wn0mN6z9oaC4AdzfFYIO2P3TOfFNY2D49twBgIC5aF0I
rGCr65yYgqiPRQ8lWldc8QfRCQk6trXVMTYaeYakgUKh5qX9mDSAbXTGd-Gi50kRG5r3631c=> .
Yesterday the Assembly bill was voted 22-7 out of the Environmental
Conservation committee and sent to the Rules committee (standard procedure).
The challenge now is to get the same bill out of the Senate Environmental
Conservation committee and then have each bill passed on the floor of the
respective chamber.

Now we need all our members to push for passage of this legislation before
the session ends.  You may do this in two ways:

1.   There is a lobbying day scheduled in Albany for this Monday, June 7. If
you can attend on Monday, please notify Roger Downs who has the schedule of
appointments with legislators (roger.downs at sierraclub.org)
<mailto:roger.downs at sierraclub.org> .  Print a copy of the memo
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i-N8Ea6hkXu9sFzh_jKw2n66H1Kiobv1wn0mN6z9oaC4AdzfFYIO2P3TOfFNY2D49twBgIC5aF0I
rGCr65yYgqiPRQ8lWldc8QfRCQk6trXVMTYaeYakgUKh5qX9mDSAbXTGd-Gi50kRG5r3631c=>
and hand it to any legislators you lobby.  We need your help to obtain
passage before the legislative session ends.

2.   If you cannot lobby, please call or fax your NYS Senator and
Assemblyman/woman next week urging each to co-sponsor the respective bill
and push toward passage before the end of session. 

If we don't succeed, the DEC will produce its final regulations this fall,
and drilling will start in 2011.

For background on LWVNYS concerns on this subject, see the critique of the
draft DEC document
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tjiLI3ZIz_U1y5X0F8vIu9oQws3RO5yGLH83gDNAGaVNpqWI-gGObNk2wdVqE6v7BZLQGBhrRuJH
9Akt3t6lYfTLta_RWZcwaWzUyRpiwvdawYecpgZZlkyt4Dh_iWX8lFYtYzwuF>  last fall.

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