Finding Ulysses

A copy of the text of the proposed law to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the town of Ulysses, New York. The last public meeting about this legislation will take place this Wednesday evening.

A large group of residents of the Town Ulysses came to a Town Board meeting last night in Trumansburg to express support of a measure that would block hydrofracking in natural gas drilling here.

Julie and Craig Sautner came up from Pennsylvania to Trumansburg recently to share their personal experience with the consequences of hydrofracturing to drill for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale. Their only source of clean drinking water was contaminated by the process. The following video contains their talk on the subject:

Susan Steingraber speaks in Trumansburg about natural gas drilling using the controversial technique of fracking

If Congressman Arcuri had been paying attention, he would have thought twice before voting to end the protections for the Gulf of Mexico.

That sticker, which you put on your bike helmet, acts as a coupon entitling you to discounts, as high as 50 percent in some locations. Purity Ice Cream is participating.

Through both active opposition and passive enabling of Big Oil’s agenda of pollution for profit, Congressman Arcuri has ensured that Jacques Cousteau’s vision of a clean planet protected for future generations has not come to pass.

What are the ethical considerations Earth Firsters ought to take into account in their anti-drilling activities in our area?

Mike Arcuri is not a supporter of the No New Drilling Act. He hasn’t cosponsored the bill, or any other bill that would help our government deal with the current oil spill disaster or prevent future ones.

The Trumansburg Demolition Derby brings us videos like this one, which serve as a strong reminder that there certainly is enough slack in the U.S. economy to pay for climate change legislation.