Energy
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 3:17 pm
A billionaire made some billions by selling his holdings in the Marcellus Shale this week. Forbes reported on Tuesday that Philip Anschutz, who owns Anschutz Energy Corporation, unloaded all 500,000 acres of prime natural gas hydro-fracturing territory... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 - 4:07 pm
Illustration and caption of gas drilling infrastructure from the DEC's draft "Strategic Plan for State Forest Management," August 27, 2010.
The giant report on state forest management released by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation didn'... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 23, 2010 - 9:59 am
In the New York Times yesterday (via Greenwire): Congressman Maurice Hinchey pressed the Obama administration, via its representative on the Delaware River Basin Commission, to halt Marcellus gas drilling in New York and Pennsylvania until his proposed $1... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 22, 2010 - 3:26 pm
Screenshot from "Windfall."
This week, Andes part-timer Stanley Fish, an opinion columnist for the New York Times, weighed in (again) on the controversial topic of wind power development in upstate New York. Fish, a die-hard opponent of local wind power,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2010 - 3:13 pm
Yesterday, the New York Times weighed in on fracking via its editorial pages. (This is not the first time it's done this.) Unsurprisingly, the paper called for a complete ban on any and all fracking in the NYC watershed region:
We have long believed that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2010 - 11:47 am
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Want to tell the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency your thoughts on gas drilling in New York? Today's your last chance, and there are hundreds of people lined up to speak before you.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 2:29 pm
We spilled a lot of ink over the weekend about the many candidates running for governor in tomorrow's primary election, and we would be remiss if we overlooked those who are running to be the next attorney general of our fair state. Luckily, Reuters has... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 2:11 pm
The county board of supervisors may not have shown up, but there were plenty of reporters and video cameras at Wednesday's protest of gas drilling in Delhi, in Delaware County. (Read our coverage of the rally here.)
One of the attendees behind a lens was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 12:30 am
A crowd of several hundred protesters packed the lawn of Courthouse Square in Delhi yesterday to protest the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, which has been supportive of hydraulic fracturing, a form of gas drilling also known as fracking.
One by one... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 6, 2010 - 3:48 pm
As if we hadn't had enough mysterious propane leaks around here lately: In the wee hours of Saturday, in the middle of a sold-out Labor Day weekend at Mohonk Mountain House, the hotel's gatehouse blew up. It's a miracle nobody was hurt, the Freeman... Read more
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