New York State has done a complete investigation into Hydraulic fracing, this practice has been happening for 60 years with an excellent record behind it. Have issues occurred yes and will more occur, absolutely. But we can not postpone this endeavor any longer, we still fly planes although there have been many plane crashes. The developement of Natural gas is needed in our state and country to remove our dependence on foreign oil. These individuals and groups are contradicting themselves in trying to stop this from moving forward and are not utilizing the scientific facts in educating the public about it. for more information in regards please visit www,jlcny.org and look at the scientific facts backing this endeavor to promote drilling in NY thank you

The argument using the "60 years old" claim is not true. The current technology used is at most 20 years old and is still in it's "guinea pig" phase, as far as we here in PA are concerned. I will hazard a guess that the "jlcny" is backed by some industry entity, due to the "information" on the site. What the "jlcny" should be doing is looking out for their landowner's safety, not the "assumed" growth of their pocketbooks. NY landowners (and non-landowners alike) please pay attention to what is happening in PA - we are not happy, our environment is getting raped and many of the former "drill, baby, drill" landowners are changing their tune now that their water has been fouled and many aren't receiving their royalties yet...

Cecile Lawrence, an anti hydrofracking activist gave a great speech on the subject at the Ithaca Commons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMgcvnPscjI
She's now running for U.S Senate and would like to ban it nationally.

Freeze BP's assets = Get on the drilling rig for facts. Stop polluting the environment with toxic drilling chemicals.
President Obama,
1.
We want immediate actions today:

Freeze all BP assets before another industry pollution bandit escapes.

Historic environmental pollution has shown paths of : Bankruptcy, buy offs, and or other escape routes planned when pollution occurs which leaves taxpayers responsible to pay the bill for environmental pollution crimes. The signs are here, this leak cannot be stopped, this is a high pressure well, stockholders are edgy with losses, there are risks with more drilling which could blowout everything in this area and then? We have BP self reporting everything to the government. There is a pattern .. of cover up, after cover up; nothing works; the truth could be approaching and may come out; there could be an escape route being planned at this very minute by BP?

Obama should take measures to protect America against this and other environmental pollution crimes:

Freeze BP assets; BP stockholders will not be paid until all damages have been paid to citizens and the environment will have a separate fund setup from BP assets to address ongoing environmental pollution for many, many years ahead. What is the cash on hand at BP? Where are the dividend levels? Are there two sets of books at BP? No choice: FREEZE whatever is in the bank. The government should make sure there is money in the bank to pay for the claims filed against it. We cannot trust a looter and polluter.

Obama should create a law known as “Freezing Drilling Polluters in their Tracks”.

Don’t let polluters escape! Polluters need to held responsible for what they have done, starting with this huge man made disaster, in the Gulf.

Our priceless environment, destroyed and protected by the government for corporate friends who have looted and legally polluted the environment under the Bush administration.

Now Obama has a major environmental disaster with a “Bush’s exempted monster in the Gulf”. “Freeze the BP Monster in their Tracks.” Don’t let them escape with the loot, keep it in the bank.

2.

We want the government to get on the BP rig in the Gulf, immediately. Get the real facts in the field by getting on the rig 24/7 around the clock with a government drilling engineer.

BP will no longer self report what they are supposedly doing. It is hard to trust an industry when assurances mean nothing.

Hundreds of government experts are currently sitting in Houston, Texas in an room with BP officials; reviewing BP self reported facts; hundreds of government paid experts are trying to pull facts together based on BP self reports facts with a history of safety negligence, cutting costs corners, all for the sake of “Stockholder Profits and their reported information is factual?”

Time is of the essence, the plan today should be to get “Onboard at BP”. Why should we trust the environment to the industry which self reports what they are doing; they formulates almost believable stories; they know how to say what we want to hear to comfort us with but do not guarantee us whatever they do is 100 percent safe? BP is known for fact changing , plans flawed; changing pages to suit their situation and throwing the public off their polluting tracks; perhaps all of this could be leading to an escape route? Every day after the accident BP had, BP had a new plan and each time it failed but there is always an excellent reason for the failure after the attempt? Oil drilling is inherently risky to the environment but elected officials are finally starting to believe what onshore citizens have been telling them about the toxic chemicals used in drilling fluids which escape into drinking water supplies near natural gas drilling!

Get on the BP rig! If you don’t get on the rig, stop wasting tax payers dollars on government experts trying to assess information given to them by self reporters from BP at the “Pollution Round Table Review” in Houston.

President Obama: Do not give us more independent environmental protection agencies which have already been proven to be a waste of taxpayers money. Future agencies should be monitored daily perhaps with a lie detector test to ensure they are being kept in check since they will be exposed to big money which talks, with the drilling industry looters and polluters. We wouldn’t need to monitor renewable energies such as solar, why didn’t we move in a renewable direction years ago? All about money and corporate friends?

3.

We want the government to list the toxic chemicals used in the drilling fluids by BP drillers in the Gulf. We want laws which will ensure onshore and offshore toxic drilling chemicals used in any drilling fluid will be listed as toxic substances in the SDWA and the Clean Water Act.

We want laws to ensure environmental agencies will test water supplies near natural gas drilling for toxic chemicals. Toxic chemicals are invisible, odorless and tasteless.

Currently environmental agencies do not test for toxic drilling fluids because in 2005 the Bush administration removed toxic chemicals from any water testing because Bush drilling friends or buddies wanted the administration to protect them to move forward with drilling which used toxic chemicals. If water testing showed toxic drilling chemicals in water supplies, that would mean drilling was harmful to humans, wildlife and aquatic life. The fracturing chemical exemptions law is better known to citizens as a liability exemption relief law, legally pollute citizens, they will never know what they drank in their water and that has been the record for years.

It is “Time for a Change” (s) The environment has been sold to the devil in exchange for “Wealth”.

We don’t want fossil fuels, “toxic drilling chemicals which poison our water” or future environmental disasters.

Drill baby drill, we are the victims of those who search for riches at the expense of our environment, such as those in officials Alaska.

Sign this petition, freeze BP Assets now:

http://environment.change.org/petitions/view/president_obama_-_freeze_bp_assets_-_get_on_the_bp_rig_for_facts