Tag: fracking

Firemen free sealed-off kitty This is to thank the Saugerties Volunteer Fire Department for rescuing my cat from inside one ...

Apparently brushing aside an underfunded primary challenge by Dutchess legislator Joel Tyner, local House of Representatives candidate Julian Schreibman says ...

Virtually all of the 58 who spoke at Wednesday evening’s hearing on a proposed county law to prohibit the use ...

The Town of Olive saw its meeting hall packed for its monthly meeting Tuesday night, April 10. And everyone left ...

It’s funny that when some industries claims that, for instance, the science behind climate change is incomplete, it’s with the ...

New Paltz Defense Against Fracking is the new environmental kid in town. We are a citizens-initiated group of concerned New ...

Failure to designate Opus 40 historic shows board's ignorance These are the times that try men’s souls. When we can't ...

An open letter to DEC commissioner Joe Martens: The Town of New Paltz appreciates the hard work that you and ...

When friends, strangers or former students run into me in the supermarket, I’m asked questions. Maybe I can squeeze a ...

Kingston is located just beyond the eastern edge of the underlying Marcellus Shale. This gift of geography would seem to ...

On Jan. 15, 2009, Kingston city engineer Ralph Swenson received an e-mail from Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas drilling company, ...

The good: Both Occupy Wall Street (OWS) starting its third week and October2011.org starting on Oct. 6 at Freedom Square ...

Ignore party bosses The way I remember “back in the day,” it was an honor and privilege to be a ...

“We're going to do this safely,” stated Joe Martens, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) ...

  Anti-fracking, pro Opus 40 Saugerties Supervisor Greg Helsmoortel and the Town Board are to be congratulated for their actions ...

Hydrofracking – the use of water and chemicals pumped into the ground at high pressure to release natural gas in ...

Not a fan of the School Board Saugerties voters went to the polls twice and voted no on the Saugerties ...

Unwelcome explosions Saturday night, around 9:30 p.m., I was jarred out of my sleep by what sounded like a military ...

This month, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to complete its proposed regulations for horizontal drilling and hydrofracking ...

  Fuzzy math I wonder how many of the 1300-plus voters who supported the school budget in the recent election ...