Events

• Art for Conservancy - schedule for artists

• New: Artists of Gallows Run, Facebook page

• -Joe Hutto, Illumination in the Flatwoods

  Video: My Life as a Turkey  Watch Nature Online - PBS

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Resources

• Fracking Background

  Expert videos

• Climate Change: expert presentations

• Tick bite prevention and procedures

• Sierra Club resources

• Delaware Flooding Risk | Riegelsville

NEWS ARCHIVE

Congress.org: Media contacts

 Septic Tank Maintenance 

Septic Tank Service Checklist

 IconservePA.org

Water testing
Stream & Habitat
Recycling | Partners
Invasive species
Township

Our Newsletter
Topic Index

DCNR Calendar of
Events  DCNR Web

Environmental stewardship, sustainable land management,
preservation of our rural character  

In the News

• Notable quotes by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea - Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University and president of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc.
  
  "People against fracking don’t think of everything that happens before and after. That’s much more risky to human health and the environment. The highest risk to water is when the fracking chemicals are on the surface being stored and being pumped down for fracking, and when they and the harmful materials that had been sequestered in the shale return to the surface after fracking in what is called flowback fluid.
  
  Fracking per se presents little risk to air quality, but the air pollutants from diesel engine exhaust and methane emissions associated with the processes of excavation, drilling, dehumidification, compression, processing and pipeline transport do present serious problems with air quality and global warming.
  
  The single most significant element of shale gas development that seems to just not be understood by many is its spatial intensity. It is an extreme form of fossil fuel development because of the very large number of very big wells, total vertical and lateral length and volume of the frack fluid, that have to be drilled throughout a shale play
  
  For just about every other industry I can imagine, from making paint, building a toaster, building an automobile, those traditional kinds of industry occur in a zoned industrial area, inside of buildings, separated from home and farm, separated from schools. We have been wise enough because of the way we civilized ourselves to realize that heavy industry should be confined to enclosed spaces.
  
  ... Contrast that here: we have been told by the oil and gas industry that our homes, our schools, our hospitals, even if they are in zoned areas for residences, have to become part of their industry. Oil and gas law in most states trumps zoning. It permits the oil and gas industries to establish its industry next to where we live. We’re asked to participate inside their spaces. They are imposing on us the requirement to locate our homes, hospitals and schools inside their industrial space.
  
  Source:  Ecowatch.com Jan 2013
  
  Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent  
   

• PBS - NOVA: Earth from Space

  Detailed satellite images reveal the web of connections that sustain life on Earth.  ... with "scientifically accurate graphics."

• Videos - Expert Perspectives on Risks of Fracturing

• Steingraber, Ph.D.:
  
  Letter to Governor Cuomo regarding cancer risks of hydraulic fracturing PDF
  
  (well-researched, evidence-based concerns)
  
  "Many of us devote scarce resources to the effort to research, communicate, and reduce environmental risks of cancer. It is incumbent on us to speak out about the potential for a profound increase in cancer risk in New York State by the permitting of hydraulic fracturing."

The Gallows Run Watershed
 
 

Our future depends on young leaders:

Terrence Noonan (right) receiving GRWA Youth Conservationist Award at GRWA Eighth Annual Members meeting, Nov. 30

Stewardship - baseline assessments
and regular monitoring:

Cheers Due for the Gallows
Run Clean-up crew!

 
GRWA Palisades Tree Squad -
Julia Brokaw with Palisades students
teaching tree planting techniques:

Calendar

GRWA Stream Clean-up
Saturday April 28, 9 AM at Johnny Mac's American Grill, 611 and Route 32, Kintnersville

See Art for Conservation Schedule for 2013

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