The Stop the NY Fracked Gas Pipeline Steering Committee will hold an organizational meeting to discuss the Proposed Gas Pipeline through Columbia County on Wednesday, June 25, at 7 pm at the Canaan Firehouse on Route 295. We will be discussing the formation of committees to accomplish the tasks we have thus far identified. Please bring ideas for work you would like to do.
We will need to form committees pertaining to the following areas:
• State petition;
• Town engagement;
• organizing a landowners meeting with lawyer(s);
• political lobbying;
• trying to form committees from areas between Columbia County and Wright, NY, getting addresses for those landowners and sending them information;
• researching about pipelines and fracking including what others are doing;
• connecting with other pipeline, environmental groups;
• organizing a meeting about alternative energy;
• creating a website (or putting information on nofrackedgasinmass site);
• fundraising, and
• writing letters/preparing materials.
Specific tasks that need to be done include:
• taking attorney names that we have collected, possibly identifying others, and organizing a meeting between landowners and a lawyer specializing in landowner rights vis a vis a utility company;
• identifying the landowners who abut the pipeline in Rensselaer, Albany and Schoharie counties, and
• receiving the information from the various anti-fracking and anti-pipeline groups and distilling what is important for us to know.
We have spent $500 so far on copying and mailings. Any contributions would be greatly appreciated.
Please invite your neighbors and friends. If you are unable to make this meeting but wish to be involved, please let us know, particularly about what areas you are most interested.