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The Maine NY Gas Coalition was formed with the goal of enabling landowners in Maine NY to work together to obtain the best possible gas lease compatible with the group's ownership goals.

 

 5/18/13 Minimize

This is what the opposition is up to – received this but will eliminate the sender for privacy reasons. Patty
p.s. We need to make sure we are at Town Board meetings with pro shirts or just to show we are still here.



A while back I joined Toxics Targeting to keep tabs on what Walter "Tree Hugger" Hang and his drones were up to. Attached below is the 6th email he has sent out to his troops since April 19, 2013. What have I received from any of the landowner coalitions?? - 0. Were it not for me going to the Marcellus Drilling News, Energy in Depth, the JLCNY and the Tioga County Landowners Group's websites daily, I would have no idea what is going on with the drilling issue except by reading the paper and watching the news. Be advised that I have heard this same concern from other landowners as well!


With the recent Dryden and Middlefield rulings going against us due to interpretation of the NYS "home rule" law, the battle will now be waged at the town level. As you read Hang's email, he plans on targeting the five counties with the greatest Marcellus potential - Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Steuben, and Chenango counties. Here's what Hang, who resides in Tompkins County, has to say in part in his email: " In short, Home Rule should send a chill down the spine of every Southern Tier resident." He is correct. We landowners are now very much in danger of losing something far more valuable than sign on bonuses and royalty payments: our mineral rights and the freedom to profit from those rights to help us all improve our lives, the lives of our families, and our decaying communities. That will happen unless we begin to go to all of our respective town board meetings to monitor what those fear and hysteria - driven people, who wish to strip us of our rights, are up to.


In today's Press and Sun Bulletin, Kenneth Kamlet, attorney for Hinman, Howard, and Kattell, wrote an editorial about the town battles that are going to commence. In his article he states the following: "Landowners may also subject proposed local laws seeking to restrict gas drilling to super majority approval requirements by collecting signatures on "protest petitions" pursuant to Town Law 265". It would seem highly advisable that we begin creating these petitions immediately by involving all of our friends and relatives and anyone who stands to gain by permitting of HVHF in our respective counties. It is advisable to first contact your respective town attorney or clerk to find out what is entailed in creating one of these petitions to make certain we are conforming to town standards for such a petition. If we do not start aggressive networking via email with our members in all the coalitions, go to town meetings diligently, and collect the aforementioned petitions, we will not win this fight.

It’s time we start helping Dan Fitzsimmons, Vic Furman, Bob Williams, Nick Schoonover, and all the other landowner activists who cannot do this without our involvement. Be advised that this alert is going out to all coalition leaders in the following counties: Allegany, Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Steuben, Tioga, and Town of Vestal which has a rather lengthy and robust web page and steering committee list. I have not yet mastered the technique of sending an email to a large number of respondents hence the fragmented listings. If anyone forwards my email please be sure to DELETE my email address so Mr. Hang does not become aware of my involvement in his organization and I can continue to monitor his activities. Thanks

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 5/18/13 Minimize

With permission from Vic Furman, longtime drilling advocate and activist in reply to the lengthy and self - deleted email about the subject of "home rule". Please review Vic's 3 step approach to addressing potential town boards trying to ban drilling like Dryden/Middlefield. Anyone who has other ideas and strategies, please keep everyone apprised of them and by all means forward to other coalitions. I am going to use Vic's ideas for the West Corners/Union Center coalition which is in the Town of Union. Please note my underlined text.......


Victor Furman here

We need to be now more then ever more involved in town meetings. Your absolutely right when you said a few of us have been very active attending many town meetings, often other towns other then our own and find the only others participating in the meetings are out of town activist with video camera's and pressuring the Town boards into submission. Where we use to be strong and showed up at many meetings we are now few. We called ourselves the Truth Squad but unfortunately the active members are tired of going to towns only to find no other members from coalitions are there.in their own town

What we need is:

1) for a jlcny member that is dedicated from their town to watch Town Meetings Notifications where gas drilling is on the agenda (especially is Slottje from Ithaca is attending)

2) A call list of at least 5 members from each town WHO WILL SHOW UP TO A TOWN MEETING!

3) at least one member from each coalition in the 5 targeted counties (This is where the anti's will concentrate) who can and will travel to town meetings and speak in support of drilling.

Bottom Line - if we don't meet the opposition head on at these meetings they will win.

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Dear Friends, Coalition Leaders, Landowners and Natural Gas Supporters,
 
Attached are statements from DEC Commissioner Martens and Department of Health Commissioner Shah. Commissioner Shah says he still needs a few weeks to complete the health review. DEC says if DOH finds that the SGEIS adequately addresses health concerns, the SGEIS can be adopted and permits issued 10 days later.

We are extremely disappointed that after 4 1/2 years, the state failed to meet another deadline. The JLCNY will be monitoring these issues on a daily basis and will continue to evaluate our plans to commence a lawsuit against the state. 
Warm Regards,
Dan Fitzsimmons, President
Joint Landowners Coalition of New York, Inc.
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 1/29/13 Minimize
There are no paid actors in this video. If you have a little bit of extra time, this is a video to watch. 
 
Subject: Fracking
 
This is about 34 minutes long but is very interesting.  The lady lives near Salt Springs.
 
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