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gas & oil drilling watch

oil spill near Olean drinking water plant

important resources for landowners considering leasing to gas companies

"[A] total ban on the extraction of natural resources is permissible,"
so say two NY courts

fracking banned by two NY towns

news from Toxics Targeting

CCCC Backgrounder: Understanding the impacts of the Marcellus Shale gas play

Waste watch

Cleanup of Scott Rotary Seals site on Franklin St. in Olean begins

How & why we waste:
The Story of  Stuff

New York bans burn barrels


Factoids

Over 90% of New York's waste disposal capacity is located in central and western NY  --maps and links to the landfills

Nuclear waste sites are concentrated in western NY --West Valley, Tonawanda, Lake Ontario Ordnance Works

New York's only hazardous waste landfill is located in western NY --Chemical Waste Management

Health effects of living near a landfill --leaks, fires, stability, landfill gas

New York State recycles 40% of its waste on average, but that could be 85% --zero waste policies, recycling initiatives, alternatives to toxic products

In New York, municipal governments hosting private waste facilities can be liable for future cleanup costs --municipal liability, local landfill ban laws, local flow control laws

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Wind energy planning:

"They look for relatively poor areas that display the desired population demographic — farmers with large landholdings and newcomers with large incomes — and then they pit the two constituencies against each other. "
--Stanley Fish
Wind farm watch

protests over wind farms in Ontario, Canada

new study by Civitas (UK) concludes that wind energy raises the cost of power and fails to decrease CO2 emissions

Iberdrola reports defects in the concrete poured for several of the wind turbine foundations at its
Hardscrabble wind farm (Herkimer Co.)

wind farms in Cattaraugus County

10 NY counties oppose Article X

Toronto Sun: why wind power is not green

federal agencies question "the economic integrity of government support for renewables," says memo to Obama

CCCC's Backgrounder: what you need to know to assess wind energy's pro's and con's