Walton Reporter (no website) June 30, 2010 By Glenn Graves DELHI – Delaware County Commissioner of Watershed Affairs Dean Frazier is notifying county residents that a public hearing for comments on New York City’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and Complete Water Supply Permit will be held on Monday, July 12, at 6 p.m., at [...]
From The Walton Reporter (no website), May 26 On Monday, June 7, at 6:30 PM, the Walton Theater will host one stop of Josh Fox’s 20-stop tour of Pennsylvania and New York, as a run-up to the June 21 HBO premiere of his new film, “Gasland,” winner of this year’s Sundance Special Jury Prize. The [...]
From The Walton Reporter (no website), May 19, 2010 The Drill, the Spill, and the Pill By Nick Albaugh Last Wednesday the Reporter published Joan Tubridy’s timely piece, “Gas Drilling: Economic Boom or Bust,” that concisely countered a number of economic beliefs by drilling advocates and raised cautions about the real costs to affected communities. [...]
Walton Reporter (no website) May 19, 2010 By Robert A. Cairns DELHI – The Delaware County Board of Supervisors wants the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to hurry up and approve regulations for natural gas drilling. At last week’s board meeting, supervisors adopted a resolution, calling on the DRBC to “expedite the promulgation of rules [...]
Walton Reporter (no website) May 19, 2010 Letter to the Editor: Last week there was an article in The Walton Reporter on page 3 quoting pro-drilling Colchester Supervisor Bart (sic) Homovich, whose position is that because Delaware County sits on top of the New York City watershed, the residents are being denied the rights to [...]
Walton Reporter (no website) May 12, 2010 By Glenn Graves DOWNSVILLE – Colchester Supervisor Robert Homovich has informed the town council that New York City may not be content with the recent decision made by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) that greatly reduces the chance any natural gas drilling will occur [...]
Blizzard Day 3 Driveway Drift, originally uploaded by Sandy*S – off to nebraska for a bit. From The Walton Reporter (no website), March 17, 2010 Here’s a item highlighting rural charm, plucked from the pages of a town’s council meeting report. The photo is from Nebraska. Ronald Tippet had requested the town (Harpersfield, NY) highway department continue to [...]
West Kill Spring Scenic 2, originally uploaded by Anton de Flon. From The Walton Reporter (no website), January 27, 2010 By Glenn Graves WALTON – The Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District (DCSWCD) will administer a new incentive of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to protect and manage stream banks [...]
This post may seem to stray from the environment, but it’s right on the money. In good times and bad, environmental programs are never fully funded. The poster child for this is the Land and Water Conservation Fund, created in 1964. In over 40 years, the program has rarely been funded, its funds siphoned off to [...]
3/13/10 – After reading a mention in the Andes Gazette of a nesting pair of Bald Eagles on Dingle Hill along the Pepacton Reservoir, my wife and I went to see for ourselves. It was a blustery day, with temps in the mid-30’s, a light rain, snow melt coursing down the hillsides. We found the [...]
From the Walton Reporter (no website), February 12, 2010. By Glenn Graves DISH, Texas Mayor Calvin Tillman was at Downsville Central School last Wednesday evening to discuss the pitfalls that can be associated with natural gas development. His presentation was sponsored by a coalition of local groups concerned about the impacts of gas drilling in the [...]
From the Walton Reporter (no website), February 10, 2010. Mayor Calvin Tillman of Dish, Texas says the people of his town “have seen the worst of what the natural gas industry is capable of.” Dish, located in the heart of the Barnett Shale gas fields, hosts 11 natural gas compressors, four metering stations, 11 high-pressure gas [...]
From the Walton Reporter (no website), December 16, 2009. The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) reported yesterday that its review of the 2004, 2005, and 2006 storm events, utilizing the new Delaware River Basin Flood Analysis Model, demonstrate that widespread river flooding would have occurred regardless of the pre-event storage conditions in the upper basin [...]
From the Walton Reporter (no website), January 27, 2010. New York State Senator John Bonacic said, last week, that New York City should purchase natural gas drilling rights in the watershed, rather than try to have the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) prohibit the drilling through regulation. Bonacic said the attempt to have gas [...]
From the Walton Reporter, abbreviated, January 20, 2010 (The article expressed the disapproval of a New York Attorney General settlement with five healthcare facilities within the NYC watershed to cease flushing unused pharmaceuticals down sinks and toilets, and to pay a fine of less than $18,000 for the five institutions combined. The board felt the [...]