[LocalLeaguePresidents] action alert for gas drilling moratorium on Monday

Tue Jun 8 09:05:25 CDT 2010

Please note that LVW Central Nassau has a new president as of our Annual Meeting 5.13.2010.  Please remove my name and add the new president's name, Lenora Long.  Her information is listed below.  Thank you.

Lenora Long
74 Martin Ave
Hempstead, NY 11550
516.292-7777
llong22975 at aol.com

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From: Multer <GSMulter at stny.rr.com>
To: localleaguepresidents at lwvny.org
Sent: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 6:18 pm
Subject: [LocalLeaguePresidents] action alert for gas drilling moratorium on Monday

After receiving the attached from Laura at 5 p.m., I called to thank her (and Betsey and Sally) for writing it. She said she was going to send it to local league presidents next but that the normal system wasn't working so she would use another means. Since I have still not received my copy as a local president after an hour and a half, I'm guessing it may not have gone through. So I am going to try to send it myself. 

Please read and respond in any way you can to help the cause. 

Susan Multer, President 
LWV of Steuben County 
607-739-9141 

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From:
scobies <scobies at frontiernet.net>

To:
NYGCG - New York Gas Coordination Group <nygcg---new-york-gas-coordination-group at googlegroups.com>

Subject:
[NYGCG] LWV: Action Alert: Hydraulic Fracturing

Date:
Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:58:37 -0400

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From: League of Women Voters of NYS <laura at lwvny.org>
Date: June 4, 2010 4:52:24 PM EDT
To: scobies at frontiernet.net
Subject: Action Alert: Hydraulic Fracturing
Reply-To: laura at lwvny.org

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. 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).  Print a copy of the memo 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 last fall.

League of Women Voters of New York State
62 Grand Street, Albany, NY 12207
Tel: 518-465-4162   FAX: 518-465-0812
www.lwvny.org  ; Email: lwvny at lwvny.org 

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