Finding Ulysses

Josh Harben informs us of a meeting just a few miles outside of Ulysses borders – in Hector – to present a petition against fracking there. The meeting is tomorrow night!

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.

Two opportunities for citizens to have a say in the greater Trumansburg community are available to us this week. On Tuesday, it’s time to vote on the budget for next year’s operation of the Trumansburg schools. On Friday, from 7:00 to 9:30 in the evening, a forum on fracking, entitled Economic Impacts of Heavy Industrial [...]

A meeting of the Ulysses Town Board tomorrow will include discussion of an ordinance which would result in a prohibition on fracking in the countryside around Trumansburg.

Upcoming events in Trumansburg address fracking, flutes, and slang.

Local organizations will hold an information session, in the Fire Hall in Trumansburg on March 18, about their efforts to ban fracking.

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:

Caroline town Supervisor Don Barber warns Trumansburg residents about the dangers of rural industrialization that come along with natural gas drilling.

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