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		<title>Driller Sues NY Town to Challenge Local Drilling Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anschutz Exploration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anschutz Exploration this week will file a lawsuit against the Town of Dryden (NY) to strike down the town’s recently passed ban on gas drilling. Dryden is a small township with two villages—Dryden and Freeville—located in Tompkins County, near Ithaca. Its land area is 94.2 square miles with some 13,500 people living there. In New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Local Governments Not Allowed to Ban Marcellus Drilling by State Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chenango County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local governments in New York State that pass zoning ordinances to restrict or prohibit hydraulic fracturing and drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica Shales may find their actions overturned in short order. Attempts by government officials to zone the natural gas industry, beyond creating road use ordinances and determining real property taxes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaleshock Expert Agrees &#8211; Hydrofracturing Will Not Hurt You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cortland County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shaleshock Action Alliance, an anti-drilling group, recently sponsored a meeting at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, NY to discuss the potential negative consequences of horizontal drilling and hydrofracturing (a specific technique used in drilling for natural gas). Shaleshock’s expert speakers for the evening included two chemists and an endocrinologist. One of the chemists was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club National Organization Supports Gas Drilling, Local Chapters Do Not &#8211; Tension Brewing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR Morning Edition (Feb 23) Natural Gas As A Climate Fix Sparks Friction In a surprisingly balanced report by NPR, we learn of the infighting that is taking place in the Sierra Club, between the national organization and the state and local chapters. It seems the national organization believes natural gas and gas drilling are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cornell University Owns 4% of Tompkins County Land, May Allow Drilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cornell Daily Sun (Feb 16) University Denies Conflict of Interest In an article about a potential conflict of interest for the Chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Peter Meinig, we learn that Cornell is a major landowner in Tompkins County, NY, with some 11,000 acres—which is 4% of the land in the county. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Tompkins Takes Aim at Drilling in the Marcellus Shale</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2009/11/sustainable-tompkins-takes-aim-at-drilling-in-the-marcellus-shale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ithaca Journal (Nov 18): Sustainable Tompkins awards mini-grants People in the Ithaca, NY area should know that a local organization calling itself Sustainable Tompkins (www.sustainabletompkins.org) is helping to fund anti-drilling causes. They recently made a small grant of $370 to Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance (www.shaleshock.org) to &#8220;produce newsletters reporting on industrial gas drilling in the [...]]]></description>
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