Thursday, October 21, 2010

Latest Mountainkeeper News


Commission: Gas regulations not ready yet

The Daily Star - Oct 20 12:42am
The Catskill Mountainkeeper said in the release: "If the DRBC does issue these regulations, Catskill Mountainkeeper will be looking at legal action on behalf of all Catskill region residents to have them nullified. This will be an additional and substantial expense on top of all the other expenses Mountainkeeper is making to continue to lead the fight against gas drilling in our state and region."


SPARC dinner features Mountainkeeper director

Times Herald-Record - Oct 16, 2010

MONTGOMERY — Wes Gillingham, a director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper and on the front lines of the struggle to stop the gas mining process called...

Steve Israel: No rhyme or reason to fracking debate?

Times Herald-Record - Steve Israel - Oct 10, 2010

"It's a no-brainer," says Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill Mountainkeeper. "Why would you go forward with the rules and regulations before you ...

Catskills Lark in the Park Runs Oct 2-11

ReadMedia (press release) - Sept 29, 2010

4PM - Join Catskill Mountainkeeper Regional Director Aaron Bennett, and his sons Hudson and Samuel (and their stroller) on a walk along the Ashokan ...

The quiet rise of American Big Gas

CNNMoney - Katie Benner - Shelley DuBois - Sept 29, 2010

... history of trashing the places where our energy comes from," says Wes Gillingham, director of a conservation group called the Catskill Mountainkeeper. ...

US energy companies rush into shale oil projects

Financial Times - Sheila McNulty - Sept 29, 2010

“This industry has proven time and time again that they can not be trusted to regulate themselves,” said Wes Gillingham of Catskill Mountainkeeper, ...

Lark in the Park to highlight diversity of the Catskills

Catskill Daily Mail - Jim Planck - Sep 22, 2010
The ramble begins at 2 pm On Wednesday, Oct. 6, Sullivan County-based Catskill Mountainkeeper officials will lead an eight-mile hike, rated difficult,

DEC forest plan weighs fracking

Times Herald-Record - Adam Bosch - Sep 18, 2010
... threat we face is the large-scale industrialization of this wild and scenic area," said Ramsay Adams of the watchdog group Catskill Mountainkeeper.

Natural gas drilling meetings in Binghamton wrap up

RocNow - Jonathan Campbell - Sep 16, 2010

Wes Gillingham, program director for Catskill Mountainkeeper, asked the EPA to expand its study to look at what fracking does to the geology of the land. ...

Second day of EPA hearing sparsely attended

Ithaca Journal - Jon Campbell - Sep 15, 2010
Wes Gillingham, program director for Catskill Mountainkeeper, asked the EPA to expand its study to look at what fracking does to the geology of the land.

My View: Groundswell of groups joins to fight gas drilling

Times Herald-Record - Wes Gillingham - Sep 14, 2010
While we at Catskill Mountainkeeper have worked really hard on this issue, ... Catskill Mountainkeeper may have started singing early and may sing louder at

New Yorkers Rally at EPA's "Fracking" Hearing to Voice Concerns ...

WBGH - Sep 14, 2010
Wes Gillingham, Program Director for Catskill Mountainkeeper said "The 2005 Energy Act exempted the gas industry from all of the critical federal

EPA's New York fracking hearing may lack star power, but not energy

Platts - Sep 10, 2010
Nor will the celebrities, according to officials with Catskill Mountainkeeper, an environmental group helping to organize the anti-drilling contingent.

Is Fracking Poisoning Our Food?

Newsinferno.com - August 31, 2010
The drilling industry, of course, characterizes such occurrences as “isolated incidents”, but Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, ...

YOUNGSVILLE — The phone rings in the storefront office with homemade desks and no air conditioning.

Middletown Times Herald-Record - Aug 21 11:02pm


The New York Times and Catskill Mountainkeeper have reported that the EPA’s last hearing on fracking, held in Canonsburg, Pa., in July drew over 1,200 people without a hitch.

Online Journal - Aug 15 09:29pm


It isn’t often these days that the good guys win one. But here’s a beautiful example of a successful effort so far by the activist group Catskill Mountainkeeper and friends.

Online Journal - Aug 12 09:59pm


MONTICELLO, NY — When the New York Senate voted in the wee hours of August 4 to impose a moratorium on gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale until May 15, 2011, many gas drilling opponents in New York and other states were watching the process unfold live over the Internet, and were surprised at the lopsided outcome, 48 to nine.

The River Reporter - Aug 12 06:37am


The Sullivan County Legislature will present its third public forum on natural gas development.

The River Reporter - Aug 12 06:36am


Environmentalists Call for More 'Fracking' Hearings

The Washington Independent - Andrew Restuccia - August 10, 2010

The call for an extension was endorsed by the following environmental groups: Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Earthworks Oil ...

Groups Call on Environmental Protection Agency to Extend Comment ...

ReadMedia (press release) - August 10, 2010

The groups calling on the EPA to extend the comment period include Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Earthworks Oil & Gas ...

LAJARA: What's the fracking problem?

Kingston Daily Freeman - Ivan Lajara - August 10, 2010

Anti-drilling groups include Catskill Mountainkeeper (of Doom!); Frack Action (of Decadence!); Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy (of Despair! ...

Hearing on gas drilling postponed

Times Herald-Record - Steve Israel - August 10, 2010

"It's a travesty, but it's the right thing to do under the circumstances," said Ramsay Adams, executive director of Catskill Mountainkeeper in the Sullivan ...

EPA moves NY drilling hearing, expecting crowds

BusinessWeek - Mary Esch - August 10, 2010

Ramsay Adams, executive director of the community-based environmental advocacy organization Catskill Mountainkeeper, said the sudden change of venue raised ...

EPA moves “fracking” hearing because of cost

Times Herald-Record - Steve Israel - August 10, 2010

“They're disenfranchising the whole public comment period,'' said Wes Gillingham of Catskill Mountainkeeper, which stills plans to rally. ...

Fracking meeting: Change of venue sends rally organizers scrambling

Press & Sun-Bulletin - Steve Reilly - August 10, 2010

"It's really disappointing that the process would work this way," said Wes Gillingham, program director for the environmental group, Catskill Mountainkeeper ...

Fracking for Natural Gas and Oil May Have Broken the Law

Environmental Working Group -August 6, 2010

"This industry has proven time and time again than they cannot be trusted to regulate themselves," affirmed Wes Gillingham with Catskill Mountainkeeper. ...
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