[imc-rochester] Fwd: [ithuu] Free Forum on Hydrofracking with Dick Gilbert

Tue Mar 1 09:58:29 PST 2011

I would appreciate it were someone to tape this and put it on-line, 
preferable on blip as that makes it easier to find downloadable files.

Better, I'd love to see some participation by Rochester videographers in 
our network for videographers and other media artists and activists 
Shaleshock Media <http://shaleshockmedia.org/>.

We are starting to syndicate programming for public access t.v..  This 
is both ready to cablecast shows and content that you can use for 
derivative work.  As soon as I or someone else has the time to do this, 
we will be having a calendar for public access programing related to gas 
drilling.  This should have a drop down for Ithaca, Binghamton, Watkins 
Glen (will be starting to cablecast programming soon), Rochester?

Please give this some consideration.  Please get in touch with me with 
any questions or for details.

Thanks,

Cris

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Subject: 	[ithuu] Free Forum on Hydrofracking with Dick Gilbert
Date: 	Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:43:20 -0500
From: 	Christian Nielsen <cnielsen56 at aol.com>
To: 	Unitarian Listserve <ithuu at unitarian.ithaca.ny.us>

Free Forum on Hydrofracking

On Sunday, March 13 Interfaith Impact New York State will sponsor a 
forum entitled “Hydrofracking in New York State?”

It will be held at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY.

Speakers include the Rev. Dick Gilbert; Mike Lovegreen, Conservation 
District Manager in Bradford County, PA; William Podulka, physicist, 
Cornell University; and Frank Potter, Professor Emeritus, Fort Hays 
State University, Kansas. Free and open to the public. For more 
information, see their website or call 585-442-5111.

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From: *New York Interfaith Power & Light* <NYIPL at ymail.com 
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Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Subject: NYIPL Newsletter
To: Christian Nielsen-Palacios <cnielsen56 at aol.com 
<mailto:cnielsen56 at aol.com>>

*News from
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nyipl.org <http://www.nyipl.org/>****

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*In this issue:*

* Earth Day Lobby Day

* Website and Brochure Refresh

* Preach-In

* Congressional Attacks on the EPA

* Rochester Forum on Hydrofracking

* Donate

*Lobby Day on Hydrofracking - Monday, May 2, 2011*

As we wrote in last month’s newsletter, New York Interfaith Power & 
Light is gearing up once again for Earth Day Lobby Day, traditionally 
the biggest environmental event of the year in Albany. Earth Day Lobby 
Day is generally held as close to Earth Day as possible. This year New 
York Interfaith Power & Light will focus on natural gas drilling, also 
known as hydrofracking.

New York Public Interest Research Group and Environmental Advocates of 
New York are spearheading the event, which has featured New York’s 
Governor for the past three years.Other organizations involved in 
planning are Citizens Campaign for the Environment, the Sierra Club, and 
Audubon.

Come for the opportunity to hear interesting speakers and meet with your 
elected representatives at the State Capitol.We will provide tips and 
information for people who have not lobbied before.

We have rented a bus to give participants a fun, “green” way to attend 
Earth Day Lobby Day. The bus will have stops in Syracuse, Binghamton, 
and along I-88. We will provide bus riders with a delicious lunch 
(included with the $10 ticket price).

Please plan to register even if you will not be joining us on the bus or 
buying lunch. If you wish to participate in the full day event, you must 
pre-register so we can assign you to a lobby team.We will have a 
registration form at our website <http://www.nyipl.org/>shortly.

For more information call (315) 256-0078.

*NYIPL's Website and Brochure get a New Look
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We have re-designed the New York Interfaith Power & Light website! Take 
a look <http://www.nyipl.org/> and let us know what you think.Many, many 
thanks to Reverend Caspar Green who volunteered his time creating the 
new site and will now continue as our Webmaster.Many thanks also to 
Janet Allen, one of the founders of NYIPL and previous Webmaster, and 
Chad Crawford, Online Communications Manager at The Regeneration Project 
and adviser to us of all things technical.

We have also re-designed our organizational brochure. Thank you to 
Gretchen Killion, Office Manager at The Regeneration Project (our parent 
organization) for all of her work on this.

If you have something you think should be included on our website, 
contact us at nyipl at ymail.com <mailto:nyipl at ymail.com>.

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*Valentine's Day Preach-In on Global Warming
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Over Valentine's Day weekend we held our annual "National Preach-in on 
Global Warming," with 700 religious leaders nationwide leading their 
congregations in a sermon or other discussion on the topic. This is a 
30% increase in participating congregations in just a year! We provided 
bulletin inserts and Valentine’s Day advocacy postcards to Senators 
asking them to support the EPA and the Clean Air Act.

Thank you to the following *thirty* leaders in New York State who 
participated this year!

Mr. Philip Boone, Staten Island

The Rev. Dr. William Damrow - St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, New Rochelle

The Rev. Dr. Susan De George, South Presbyterian Church, Dobbs Ferry

Rev. Joyce deVelder - Old Saratoga Reformed Church, Schuylerville
Ms. Gladys Gifford - University Presbyterian Church, Buffalo
Ms. Victoria Giulianelli - Assumption/St. Paul Church, Mechanicville
Rev. David Inglis - Henrietta UCC, Henrietta
Mr. Inbaraj Jeyakumar, New York City

The Rev. Sally Juarez - Stony Point Presbyterian Retreat & Conference 
Center, Stony Point
Rev. Patricia Lennox - Two Rivers Ecumenical Council, Potsdam
Ms. June Licence - Riverside-Salem UCC/DC

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lill, Rochester

Joy Lowenthall, East Greenbush

Ruth Maier - St. Catherine of Siena Church, Mendon

Ms. Haley Main - Hope’s Way Church, New York City

Daran Mitchell, Brooklyn

Mr. Ted Meskunas - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, 
Dannemora
The Rev. Nina Nichols - Christ Church United Methodist, Troy, NY (member)

Mrs. Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, Ithaca
Mrs. Harriet Pasca-Ortgies, Bay Shore

Rev. Okke Postma - First Reformed Church, Hastings on Hudson

Dr. Dorothy Ross - St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Manhattanville, New York 
City
The Rev. Edward Schreiber -Atonement Lutheran Church, Saugerties

Dr. Richard Schwartz - Young Israel of Staten Island, Staten Island
Rev. Jerald Shave - First Presbyterian Church United of Syracuse, Liverpool
Ms. Catherine Skopic - Congregation of Saint Saviour within the 
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York City
Ms. Sheila Sotudeh, Scarsdale
Dr. Patricia Townsend, North Presbyterian Church, Amherst

Mrs. Kathleen Weisman, Scarsdale

The Rev. Canon Patti Welch - Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City

*Congressional Attacks on the EPA*

Many members of the U.S. House of Representatives are working to 
drastically undermine the authority of the EPA to enforce the Clean Air 
Act and other public health protections, including regulating greenhouse 
gases.Some of the assaults are a part of the appropriations bill, with 
some polluters’ friends evidently hoping that the public will not notice 
such drastic measures if they are buried in the spending bill.

The Environmental Defense Fund summarized the most egregious examples:

    * No funding for enforcement of limits on mercury pollution from
      cement kilns. Mercury pollution causes brain damage in young children.
    * An outright ban on any EPA regulation of methane, nitrous oxide,
      sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, carbon dioxide or
      perfluorocarbons from stationary sources for whatever reason,
      including their impact on public health and ozone.
    * A sweeping prohibition on all work by the EPA to address carbon
      pollution, including a critical public right to know program that
      was set to give communities their first practical tools for
      identifying the biggest polluters.

Click here 
<http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2011/02/18/u-s-house-makes-underhanded-attempt-to-gut-clean-air-protections/>for 
EDF's full article.

In addition to the fight in the House, members of the Senate have also 
worked to undermine public health.Highlights again from the 
Environmental Defense Fund 
<http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2011/02/18/u-s-house-makes-underhanded-attempt-to-gut-clean-air-protections/>:

    * The "Do Absolutely Nothing on Climate" offered by Senator John
      Barrasso (R-WY). This bill would permanently block the EPA /and/
      every other federal agency from using the Clean Air Act /and/ any
      other environmental law to do anything about reducing America's
      climate pollution. *It would also preempt state climate actions*.
    * The "Do Nothing on Climate for Two Years" bill offered by Senator
      Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). *This would block the EPA from taking any
      action* to address America's climate pollution for at least two years.
    * The "Climate Science Denial" bill circulated by Rep. Fred Upton
      (R-MI) and Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). *This would gut the Clean
      Air Act *to exclude climate pollution and repeal the EPA
      scientific finding that climate emissions pose a threat to human
      health.

This past week the House voted on a compromise short-term spending bill 
which postpones a potential government shutdown until it expires on 
March 18. That gives those of us at New York Interfaith Power & Light 
two more weeks to speak to our lawmakers. Watch your inbox for an action 
alert this week.

*Free Forum on Hydrofracking *

On Sunday, March 13 Interfaith Impact New York State will sponsor a 
forum entitled “Hydrofracking in New York State?”

It will be held at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY.

Speakers include the Rev. Dick Gilbert; Mike Lovegreen, Conservation 
District Managerin Bradford County, PA; William Podulka, physicist, 
Cornell University; and Frank Potter, Professor Emeritus, Fort Hays 
State University, Kansas. Free and open to the public. For more 
information, see their website <http://www.interfaithimpactnys.org/>or 
call 585-442-5111.

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