Town of Danby, NY
Town of Danby, NY : Gas Drilling 2010-09-03 12:26:40.28

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Upcoming Events, Friday, 03-Sep-2010 through Thursday, 04-Nov-2010
Date Time / Location Group / Title Details
08-Sep-2010
Wednesday
7pm
Danby Town Hall
Gas Drilling Task Force
Meeting Public invited to join and learn!
22-Sep-2010
Wednesday
7pm
Danby Town Hall
Gas Drilling Task Force
Understanding Danby's Water Presentation by Todd Miller, US Geologic Survey.

The Danby Gas Drilling Task Force has developed two surveys.

The first survey is an on-line version of the questionnaire about water wells, gas wells, and land in Danby, that was published in the December 2009 edition of the Danby Area News. You can find it at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YourLandAndWater.

The second survey was designed to learn about what people know, think, and feel about the development of natural gas. You can find it at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YourViews.

These surveys take only a few minutes to complete. Please share them with your friends and neighbors so that we hear from as many Danby residents as possible. Thank you!

The draft SGEIS was released on September 30; comments are due to the NYS DEC by December 31.

The dSGEIS document is available from the NYS DEC web site.
There is a cover page which has links to each section (15 separate PDF files) or you can fetch the entire 809 pages in one big file.
In addition, the Final Scope document, a precursor to the dSGEIS, gives some background on how the dSGEIS was prepared.

Printed copies are available at NYS DEC offices, and some libraries may have them as well, but your best bet is via the web. If you download the "one big PDF", it'll be more easily searchable for key words and phrases.

Danby has prepared an official response to the dSGEIS, along with an appendix containing land use maps of Danby.

The Danby GDTF has also prepared an informative flyer highlighting gas drilling issues.

Two documents comparing Greenness / Emissions of Natural Gas with other energy sources:

  • Howarth Gas-vs-Coal Draft Document
  • How Green is Natural Gas
  • Alphabet Soup, expanded...
    SGEIS== Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement
    DEC== Department of Environmental Conservation
    NYS== New York State

    We have prepared three letters that you can send to our congresspeople. They talk about a law that will provide at least some Federal supervision of the type of gas and oil industry operations expected in the Danby area.

    We hope you'll send the three letters and, if you can, it would be great if you could add a personal sentence or two to each letter. In addition, to make this effort more effective, please tell your friends (whether in Danby or not) about these letters and ask them to do the same.

    This way, the people in Washington, D.C. will feel pressure from us to get this bill through Congress. Thank you.

    Here's a little bit of background about these letters:

    Document List
    Document Type Date / Number Description / Links
    SCHUMER 20091001 HTML pageHTML | PDF filePDF
    HINCHEY 20091001 HTML pageHTML | PDF filePDF
    GILLIBRAND 20091001 HTML pageHTML | PDF filePDF
    FLYER 2009 PDF filePDF