NYPress.com - New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more » Pols http://nypress.com New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Fri, 17 May 2013 22:07:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 POLS PROTEST UPSTATE DRILLING http://nypress.com/pols-protest-upstate-drilling/ http://nypress.com/pols-protest-upstate-drilling/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:16:45 +0000 admin http://westsidespirit.com/?p=3358 When the state laid out rules on Sept. 30 for natural gas drilling upstate, elected officials miles away in New York City said, “kill the drill.”

That is because the drilling, believed to contaminate water, would be allowed near watersheds where city residents get their drinking water.

Borough President Scott Stringer, along with other city officials, called for the state to ban drilling near the city’s water source.

“Today, we start a campaign with one clear goal: to make certain that before this state’s draft plan become law, it includes a ban on drilling for natural gas in the city’s upstate watershed,” Stringer said in a statement.

The coalition of elected officials and environmental advocates also criticized the proposed buffer zones around watersheds as inadequate to protect water from contamination.

“The proposed mitigation measures do not go far enough,” said State Sen. Tom Duane, in a statement. “It is inconceivable and unacceptable that the measures do not include a ban on high-volume hydraulic fracturing in and around New York City’s watershed and, indeed, in all water supplies statewide.”

The Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a public information sessions later in the year.

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State Sen. Tom Duane and Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, the bill’s sponsors, held a rally on Oct. 19 with several local elected officials and members of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association. The bill is meant to target landlords who knowingly file false accusations and non-renewal of lease notices against their tenants. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Borough President Scott Stringer and Council Member Dan Garodnick joined the two legislators to express support of the legislation.

–Dan Rivoli

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