http://shaleshockmedia.org artists and media activists engaged in the struggle against hydrofracking Sun, 20 May 2012 22:48:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/05/20/1-groton-town-board-41012/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/05/20/1-groton-town-board-41012/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 22:46:58 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3704 The Groton Resource Awareness Coalition (GRAC) presents the Groton town board with the results of their petition to ban hydrofracking. Video in part 1 starts with privilege of the floor, followed by presentation of petitions. Dyan L Lombardi, first speaker, details how she was enticed by a landsman for Anschutz [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/05/20/1-groton-town-board-41012/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/05/20/2-groton-town-board-41012/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/05/20/2-groton-town-board-41012/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 22:45:39 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3705 The Groton Resource Awareness Coalition (GRAC) presents the Groton town board with the results of their petition to ban hydrofracking. Video in part 1 starts with privilege of the floor, followed by presentation of petitions. 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He [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/05/05/hector-clean-waters-presents-joe-heath-sandra-steingraber/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/2-maura-stephens-cpny-at-rally-in-corning/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/2-maura-stephens-cpny-at-rally-in-corning/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 01:42:12 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3558 MAURA STEPHENS of Tioga County, Coalition to Protect New York, RAFT-NY, FrackBustersNY and SAVE-SVE, tells the governor and candidates for public office in this election year that, now tens of thousands strong, we WILL NOT VOTE FOR FRACKERS. 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Playlist 39m:26s The grassroots were out in force on April 28th, 2012 to put Governor Cuomo, the U.S. Senators, and state elected officials on notice that we mean business: We do not want to be fracked, and we will not vote for frackers. The occasion was [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/rally-in-corning-during-nys-democratic-rural-conference/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/1-issac-silberman-gorn-verse-at-rally-in-corning/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/1-issac-silberman-gorn-verse-at-rally-in-corning/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:34:21 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3517 ISSAAC SILBERMAN-GORN of VeRSE (Vestal Residents for Safe Energy) and New Yorkers Against Fracking announces the results of a recently completed public opinion survey on fracking. The grassroots were out in force on April 28th, 2012 to put Governor Cuomo, the US Senators, and state elected officials on notice that [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/1-issac-silberman-gorn-verse-at-rally-in-corning/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/3-david-kagan-pine-creek-pa-at-rally-in-corning/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/3-david-kagan-pine-creek-pa-at-rally-in-corning/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:33:37 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3516 DAVID KAGAN of Pine Creek, PA, who is featured in the short film Heavy Fraffic from the documentary Groundswell. His voice is with us all the time as we fight fracking, on the traffic and other ills that plague fracked communities. 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The grassroots were out in force on April 28th, 2012 to put Governor Cuomo, the US Senators, and state elected officials on notice [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/5-john-kesich-tioga-co-pa-at-rally-in-corning-2/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/6-art-hunt-vintner-at-rally-in-corning-2/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/6-art-hunt-vintner-at-rally-in-corning-2/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:57:24 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3510 ART HUNT of Hunt Country Vineyards, grows one of our most cherished crops, so valuable to the agricultural economy in the state, and so vulnerable, especially to air pollution. The grassroots were out in force on April 28th, 2012 to put Governor Cuomo, the US Senators, and state elected officials [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/6-art-hunt-vintner-at-rally-in-corning-2/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/7-ben-perkus-nyrad-at-rally-in-corning-2/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/7-ben-perkus-nyrad-at-rally-in-corning-2/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:56:19 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3511 BEN PERKUS of Broome County, NYRAD (New York Residents Against Drilling), speaks on our rejection of LPG as an alternative to slickwater in fracking and of the SGEIS. The grassroots were out in force on April 28th, 2012 to put Governor Cuomo, the US Senators, and state elected officials on [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/7-ben-perkus-nyrad-at-rally-in-corning-2/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/8-pablo-cremidis-occupy-elmira-corning-at-rally-in-corning/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/8-pablo-cremidis-occupy-elmira-corning-at-rally-in-corning/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:55:30 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3482 Pablo Cremidid of the Occupy Elmira-Corning General Assembly reads a statement of support and announces a studenet strike at Coning Community College over student debt. The grassroots were out in force on April 28th, 2012 to put Governor Cuomo, the US Senators, and state elected officials on notice that we [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/8-pablo-cremidis-occupy-elmira-corning-at-rally-in-corning/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/9-aro-veno-song-at-rally-in-corning/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/9-aro-veno-song-at-rally-in-corning/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:54:24 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3486 Singer/songwriter Aro Veno closes the rally with a song. She is featured on “Singing Clear: Clean Earth, Air, Water ‘Round Here,” a pro-environment benefit CD with songs contributed to and written specifically for the project, featuring The Horse Flies, Marie Burns, Aro Veno, Thousands of One, emma’s revolution, Bev Grant, [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/9-aro-veno-song-at-rally-in-corning/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/grassroots-greet-the-governor-gathering-in-corning-2/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/grassroots-greet-the-governor-gathering-in-corning-2/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:09:07 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3483 Video by Cis McConkey. Corning NY, April 28, 2012. Grassroots gather outside the Radisson Hotel during the 2012 “Rural Democrats Shaping the Future” conference. Governor Cuomo had been scheduled to appear but then cancelled. This video includes street inteviews, rally footage, and the demonstation against facking New York that continued [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/30/grassroots-greet-the-governor-gathering-in-corning-2/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/29/grassroots-greet-the-governor-gathering-in-corning/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/29/grassroots-greet-the-governor-gathering-in-corning/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:36:51 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3475 Video by Cris McConkey. Corning NY, April 28, 2012. Grassroots gather outside the Radisson Hotel during the 2012 “Rural Democrats Shaping the Future” conference. Governor Cuomo had been scheduled to appear but then cancelled. This video includes street inteviews, rally footage, and the demonstration against facking New York that continued [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/29/grassroots-greet-the-governor-gathering-in-corning/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:19:32 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3376 How much in property tax will be coming to local governments from gas drilling and when? Will drilling lower or raise my taxes? What is the process of taxing this resource? What’s a severance tax and why should New York create one? County Legislator Carol Chock and Caroline Supervisor Don Barber negotiate these questions and a maze of other taxation considerations surrounding gas drilling in this first of a series of presentations related to gas drilling presented by the Tompkins County Council of Governments.]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/1-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-1-of-3/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/1-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-1-of-3/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:45:36 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3365 Part 1 of 3. Video by Cris McConkey. March 22, 2012. Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY. How much in property tax will be coming to local governments from gas drilling and when? Will drilling lower or raise my taxes? What is the process of taxing this resource? What?sa severance [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/1-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-1-of-3/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/2-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-2-of-3/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/2-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-2-of-3/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:44:06 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3366 Part 2 of 3. Video by Cris McConkey. March 22, 2012. Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY. How much in property tax will be coming to local governments from gas drilling and when? Will drilling lower or raise my taxes? What is the process of taxing this resource? What?sa severance [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/2-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-2-of-3/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/3-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-3-of-3/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/3-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-3-of-3/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:42:59 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3367 Part 3 of 3. Video by Cris McConkey. March 22, 2012. Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY. How much in property tax will be coming to local governments from gas drilling and when? Will drilling lower or raise my taxes? What is the process of taxing this resource? What?sa severance [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/21/3-taxes-and-drilling-revenue-potential-for-municipal-governments-3-of-3/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/14/enfield-hearing-on-proposed-moratorium-on-gas-drilling/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/14/enfield-hearing-on-proposed-moratorium-on-gas-drilling/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:17:41 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3331 Video by Cris McConkey. Residents address their town board on March 28, 2012 on a proposed moratorium on gas drilling and related activity in the Town of Rnfield. ]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/14/enfield-hearing-on-proposed-moratorium-on-gas-drilling/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/03/marcellus-shale-exposed-tony-ingraffea-keynote/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/03/marcellus-shale-exposed-tony-ingraffea-keynote/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:40:10 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=3266 Download | DVD | PEG Video by Cris McConkey and Bill Huston. “Unconventional Gas Development from Shale: Myths and Realities Related to Human Health Impacts”. Keynote address by Anthony Ingraffea at Marcellus Shale Exposed, held March 17, 2012 at Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA. In his presentation, Dr. Ingraffea [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/04/03/marcellus-shale-exposed-tony-ingraffea-keynote/feed/ 1 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/09/2956/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/09/2956/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:06:10 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=2956 Video by Cris McConkey.  Auburn City Council voted 3-2 Wednesday to lift the ban on treating waste water generated by natural gas drilling at the city’s waste-water treatment plant. Read more: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/auburn_votes_to_rescind_ban_on.html ]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/09/2956/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/07/enfield-meeting-on-draft-moratorium/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/07/enfield-meeting-on-draft-moratorium/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:45:29 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=2924 PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSION February 29, 6:30 p.m., Enfield School GYM An Informational meeting featuring Enfield Town Attorney, Guy Krogh, to provide information about the proposed moratorium on unconventional gas drilling in the Town of Enfield. ]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/07/enfield-meeting-on-draft-moratorium/feed/ 0 http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/06/treading-lightly-on-the-planet/ http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/06/treading-lightly-on-the-planet/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:50:47 +0000 Cris McConkey http://shaleshockmedia.org/?p=2371 Download Video | iTunes (Audio) Video by Cris McConkey; B-Camera: Bill Huston. The speakers for this program are Lynn Leopold, Deputy Mayor of the Village of Lansing, who helped create both the Tompkins County Recycling Center and the local Reuse Center; Dick Franke, a resident of Ecovillage who has been a [...]]]> http://shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/06/treading-lightly-on-the-planet/feed/ 0