September 30, 2010
Dear Editor:
We want to invite the Cornwall area residents to a public meeting about fracking.
What is fracking?
Come and find out. Come to a public meeting, Sunday afternoon, October 3 from 4-6 pm. The meeting will be held at the Grail, 119 Duncan Avenue, in Cornwall-on-Hudson.
Fracking is the controversial practice of mining natural gas by injecting toxic chemicals, sand, and millions of gallons of water under high pressure directly into shale formations, such as underlie many parts of Cornwall. This toxic brew, along with any natural gas, is then extracted, or leaked to the surface.
What happens then is the question we must all live with.
Speakers at the event will include Buck and Mav Moorhead, founders of NYH2O, an organization concerned with fracking and water quality of our area.
An excerpt from the movie Gasland will be shown.
This event is held to educate the community so they can better participate in a public hearing called by the Cornwall Town Board at 7:20 pm on October 12.
Please come and learn more about this important topic.
Emily Thomas
Cornwall-on-Hudson
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Thank you for educating people about this method of energy extraction. At a time when we should all be considering how we can cut back, save more, and use renewable sources, the energy industry is simply moving on to practices like fracking and oil sands processing that are more harmful both to the environment and people's health, but also use immense amounts of fresh water.
So don't hold your breath that water will remain cheap and plentiful. Water access is very quietly being privatized and purchased all over the world, and will be THE boom commodity within the next 50-100 years.
Everyone who thinks the pulling and tugging with KJ over water is bad now, hold on to your hats.
posted by Ted Warren on 10/04/10 at 3:15 PM
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Will there be coverage of the 10/3 meeting presented in the C-o-H website prior to the 10/12 town meeting?
posted by Kate Benson on 10/07/10 at 7:49 AM
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