Thomas J Shepstone's Blog – June 2013 Archive (23)

Windsor Taxpayers Gain Even More from Shale Gas

Windsor, New York is the home of Marcellus Drilling News and Jim Willis, MDN’s owner, reports on what is some very good news, indeed, as shale gas and pipelines are delivering huge savings for taxpayers in that area – something that just doesn’t happen in upstate New York that often.

Last October, MDN told you about the Town of Windsor (where we write from!) in Broome County, NY, along the border of Pennsylvania. Windsor saw a new 9-mile section of natural gas pipeline and a…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on June 7, 2013 at 7:27am — No Comments

Otsego County Pays for Middlefield Ban

Otsego County, New York, wrestles with the economic difficulty of operating a long-term care facility, the operation of which could have been more easily supported had the Town of Middlefield not scuttled natural gas development plans that might have supplied the facility.

The continuing discussion about the outcome for the Otsego Manor, our county long-term care facility near Cooperstown, New York, reveals what is a losing situation for all involved. The Manor should never have been…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on June 6, 2013 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Bamberger Hamburger

Michelle Bamberger and friends are at it again, telling people the natural gas industry is responsible for sick animals — offering not even a shred of evidence of causation.

Some of NaturalGasNOW’s readers may recall a post my daughter Rachael did a while back on the EID Marcellus blog regarding Michelle Bamberger, the woman who did a study on sick animals in natural gas development areas and admitted finding no scientific link between the two, yet in the same breath condemned the…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on June 3, 2013 at 2:40pm — No Comments

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