**ANNOUNCEMENT** Public Forum: Drinking Water and Gas Drilling: What are the Risks? Speaker: Dusty Horwitt, JD, of the Environmental Working Group Introduction by Dr. Steve Penningroth of the Community Science Institute When: April 18th, 7PM Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, 306 North Aurora Street, Ithaca, NY 14850-4202 Contact: Lisa Wright thewriterwri...@yahoo.com <thewriterwrites%40yahoo.com>
Phone: 607.280.6695 In the interest of sharing important information and elevating the conversations about gas drilling in our region, several New York State groups are sponsoring programs featuring Dusty Horwitt, who is Senior Counsel for the Environmental Working Group in Washington, DC. Horwitt is the author of Environmental Working Group's recently published "Drilling Around the Law," a report on drinking water supplies from Pensylvania to Wyoming and how gas drilling has affected them. http://www.ewg.org/drillingaroundthelaw Horwitt gave powerful testimony to the NYC Council last fall about the effects of gas drilling on drinking water. NYC legislators have taken this message to heart and have taken a strong stance against gas drilling in the NYC watershed. We wish to share his concerns with the public and our upstate legislators. Here is some of what Mr. Horwitt told the NYC Council: We have reviewed much of [the DEC's DSGEIS] and believe that the state is still not taking seriously the threat that hydraulic fracturing and natural gas drilling poses to New York City’s drinking water. Nor is the state taking seriously the risk of water contamination in other parts of New York. Our analysis confirms our belief that New York State should not allow drilling in the watershed for New York City’s drinking water supply nor should it allow drilling in other areas where drinking water supplies might be compromised. For Mr. Horwitt's full testimony, see http://www.ewg.org/node/27134 Dr. Steve Penningroth will introduce Mr. Horwitt and address local concerns in regards to water quality and gas drilling. Dr. Penningroth is the Executive Director of the Community Science Institute, a nonprofit organization that includes a certified water quality testing laboratory in Ithaca, New York. Previously Dr. Penningroth was an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a Senior Lecturer in Toxicology at Cornell University in Ithaca. He recently authored a textbook entitled "Essentials of Toxic Chemical Risk: Science and Society," which is being published by Taylor & Francis this month. Please join us. All are welcome. Sponsors: : Social Justice Council of the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, Sustainable Tompkins, Community Environmental Defense Council; Citizens for Healthy Communities; Shaleshock Action Alliance; GDACC (Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County); People for a Healthy Environment, Inc.; Schuyler County Environmental Management Council; NYSESS (New Yorkers for Sustainable Energy Systems Statewide), Marcellus Accountability Project "The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment." -- ---------------------------------------------------- Gay Nicholson, Ph.D. President Sustainable Tompkins 109 S. Albany St. Ithaca, NY 14850 www.sustainabletompkins.org 607-533-7312 (home office) 607-220-8991 (cell) 607-216-1552 (ST office) 607-216-1553 (ST fax) g...@sustainabletompkins.org _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: SustainableTompkins@lists.mutualaid.org http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask sustainabletompkins-ow...@lists.mutualaid.org free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
