• Sapbush Road Group

    Area covered: Northern Broome County (Town of Barker) and southern Chenango County
    (5 miles from Millennium Pipeline)
    Membership: 105 people, 7,000 acres
    Contact: Vic Furman, 607-656-5845, vlfamf@aol.com

  • Nanticoke Gas Coaltion

    Area covered: In NY: Town of Nanticoke extending into the town of Maine in Broome County. Also includes eastern parts of the towns of Berkshire and Newark Valley in Tioga County.
    Membership: 7,100 acres
    Contact: Mark Sorochinsky, 607-222-0739, mark.sorochinsky@botnickchevrolet.com
    Contact: Carrie Czebiniak, 607-862-3873, carrieczeb@yahoo.com
    Contact: Don & Brenda Boyce, 607-862-0051, brendakboyce@yahoo.com
    Web: www.nanticokegascoalition.com

  • Mountain Valley Group

    Area covered: SE Vestal and Town of Binghamton
    Membership: Not disclosed
    Contact: Tony Gawlinski, 570-663-2653, mountainvlygrp@gmail.com

  • Maine NY Gas Coalition

    Area covered: Parts of Maine, NY
    Membership: About 200 members with 6,000 acres
    Contact: Steve Szczepanski, 607-766-9068, pszczepanski1@stny.rr.com
    Contact: John Meyers, 607-748-2256, jmeyers@mainenygascoalition.com
    Web: www.mainenygascoalition.com

  • Town of Lisle

    Area covered: Town of Lisle area
    Contact: Ron Keibel, 607-692-4461, RKeibel@co.broome.ny.us

  • Deposit Gas Group

    Area covered: Town of Sanford, Delaware County and Town of Deposit, Broome County
    Membership: About 400 people, 46,000 acres
    Contact: Sandra Davis, 607-221-4724, sdavisdrill4gas@gmail.com

  • Central Broome Landowners Association

    Area covered: Property owners with 10-acres or more in Town of Chenango, eastern Town of Union, southeastern Town of Maine, western Fenton and parts of Dickinson
    Membership: About 160 people 9,000 acres
    Contact: David Fendick, 607-729-9688, info@centralbroomeassociation.com
    Web: //www.centralbroomeassociation.org

  • Binghamton Conklin Gas Lease Coalition

    Area covered: Towns of Binghamton and Conklin in Broome County
    Membership: 1,000+ people, 19,000+ acres
    Contact: Dan Fitzsimmons, 607-775-5821, dfitzsimmons@stny.rr.com
    Web: //www.bcgaslease.com/

  • 79-11 Landowners Coalition

    Area covered: Between RT 79 and RT 11 in the town of Barker
    Membership: About 2,500 acres
    Contact: Gary VanDriesen, 607-786-1229, gvandriesen@stny.rr.com

  • 4-County Gas/Oil Leasing Group

    Area covered: Cattaraugus/Allegany Counties in NY; McKean/Potter Counties in PA
    Membership in NY: Cattaragus County – 70,000 acres, Allegany County – 41,000 acres (111,000 acres total)
    Membership in PA: McKean County – 78,000 acres, Potter County – 41,000 acres (119,000 acres total)
    Contact: Janice L. Hancharick, 919-876-2917, jlhanch@nc.rr.com

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    Federal EPA Releases Plan to Study Hydraulic Fracturing–Study’s Conclusions Won’t be Ready until 2014

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking another run at regulating natural gas drilling in the United States by the back door with its claim that hydraulic fracturing “may” endanger water supplies. To know for sure whether or not hydraulic fracturing is “safe”—even though by its own admission more than 35,000 wells are now hydraulically fractured each year in the U.S.—the EPA will conduct the mother of all studies. The first step in the process is to create a plan for how the study will be conducted. We now have that plan.

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