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 Welcome to R-Cause: Rochesterians Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction

Rochesterians Concerned About 
Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction

BANS AND MORATORIA ENACTED IN NEW YORK STATE AND GLOBALLY AS DOCUMENTED BY KAREN EDELSTEIN AND JOE HOFF:
 

Click on image to enlarge Karen Edelstein's 5/1/13 Map of Anti-Fracking Movements across New 
York State:
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Click here for Karen Edelstein's 5/1/13 
List of ANTI-Fracking Movements across New 

York State:
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Click here for Karen Edelstein's 11/28/12 
Map of PRO-Fracking Movements across New York State:

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Municipal totals as of 5/1/13: 
55 bans, 
105 moratoria, and 
91 movements for prohibitions (bans or moratoria).

If you can't open Karen Edelstein's maps and list below, go directly to FrackTracker

Per Joe Hoff, as of 4/28/13:
208 Communities Protected, (48 of these are in the NYC/Syracuse Watersheds), 
92 Municipalities Staging for Passage of Draft Legislation = 300 Municipalities as of 4/28/13 = 
2,365,000 New Yorkers Protected!

As of the 2010 census, 19,570,261 people live in New York. 
Per Wikipedia, there are 62 counties subdivided into 932 towns and 62 cities.

Joe Hoff's Moratoria, Bans and Resolutions list: 
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  • ABOUT R-CAUSE
  • PROTECT HEMLOCK & CANADICE LAKES
  • LPG STORAGE IN SENECA LAKE SALT MINES NEAR WATKINS GLEN
  • EVENTS, R-CAUSE FORUMS, ETC.
    • R-CAUSE May 9, 2013 FORUM
    • ALBANY RALLY 1/9/13
    • Fracking Debate at Cornell 11/15/12
    • REPORTS FROM ALBANY RALLY 8/27/12
    • REPORTS ON DC RALLY 7/28/12
    • R-CAUSE 2011 FORUM FOLLOW-UP>
      • Map of leased properties in the Finger Lakes
      • Panelists' PowerPoint Slides
      • Forum Video Clips
  • TAKE ACTION
    • PETITIONS
    • SIGN OUR PETITION!
  • NEWS
    • RESEARCH & STUDIES
    • PAINTED POST WATER SUIT
    • NO FRACK ALMANAC
    • NY FRACKING SCANDALS
    • NEWS FROM & ABOUT COLORADO
    • NEWS FROM & ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA
    • NEWS FROM & ABOUT OHIO
    • NEWS FROM & ABOUT TEXAS
    • RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS in Fracking Waste
    • RENEWABLE ENERGY
    • CITY OF ROCHESTER, NY
    • TOWN OF BRIGHTON, NY
  • RESOURCES
    • BANS & MORATORIA
    • MAPS
    • 101 Reasons to Ban HVHF
    • Senator Avella's Forum in NYC 7/18/12
    • Leases & Compulsory Integration
    • Economic Impacts
    • Fracking with Propane
    • Government Resources
    • HOME RULE
    • LAW SUITS
    • Legal Resources
    • NY STATE DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION>
      • DEC Commissioner Martens testifies 2/4/13
      • Health Commissioner Shah Testifies 1/30/13
      • NY Assembly Hearing 1/10/13
      • ABOUT THE DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES
      • Compulsory Integration
      • DEC PROPOSED FRACKING REGS - RESOURCES & ARTICLES>
        • The Next Thirty Days
        • Keith Schue's "How To" Submit Comments to the DEC
        • VIDEO: Responding to the New Fracking Regs
      • DEC SGEIS 2011 FLAWS and OMISSIONS>
        • TESTIMONIES 10/6/11
        • DEC Public Hearings November-December 2011>
          • DEC DANSVILLE PRESS
          • DEC Dansville Hearing Comments
        • Reports
        • OP ED LETTERS
        • A SAMPLING OF LETTERS TO THE DEC & GOVERNOR
    • Photos & Videos
    • Public Health & Fracking Chemicals Documentation
    • RADON
    • Town Planning Resources
    • For Citizen Groups
    • UTICA SHALE
  • FRACKING ART & POETRY
  • CONTACT US