While no one was paying attention, distracted with literal life and death issues due to the coronavirus pandemic, the uber-corrupt and sleazy Andrew Cuomo (worst governor EVER) slipped in a permanent ban on fracking into the annual state budget bill which is now the law of our fallen (and sick) land. This is truly a sad day for those of us who live in New York State. We seriously doubt there will  [ ... ]

Dear Friends: I am honored to announce the endorsement of the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York (JLCNY) --- an organization whose membership reached 77,000 members. Dan Fitzsimmons, President of the JLCNY said, "In 2010 as candidate for Congress against Congressman Maurice Hinchey, George spoke out strongly in support of natural gas drilling at the EPA hearing in Binghamton. He n [ ... ]

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The nearly $1 billion Constitution Pipeline project, which had been designed to take natural gas from Pennsylvania's shale gas fields to metropolitan New York and New England, has been abandoned after years of legal regulatory challenges made it economically unfeasible, a spokeswoman for project partner Duke Energy said Monday. “Although Constitution did receive positive outcome [ ... ]

Recently a public notice appeared on municipal power giant Consolidated Edison’s webpage. The message they published is, “...new gas connections will be suspended in most of Westchester County service area until further notice.” Consolidated Edition, known as ConEd, is the power company that supplies millions of people and businesses in metropolitan New York with steam, electricity and natur [ ... ]

JLCNY endorses George Phillips for Congress in New York’s 22nd Congressional District BINGHAMTON – February 19, 2020 – The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York supports George Phillips for Congress in New York’s 22nd Congressional District. Dan Fitzsimmons, President of the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York said: George Phillips is a Republican candidate for Congress in New York [ ... ]

As was reported earlier this week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo intends to take full advantage of a far-left, Democrat-controlled state legislature, in order to pass a permanent (for all time) ban on fracking (see NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wants to Make Frack Ban Permanent). New York’s largest landowner rights group, the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York, has just issued a statement warning Cuomo  [ ... ]

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JLCNY Opposes Permanent Hydraulic Fracturing Ban in New York BINGHAMTON – January 23, 2020 Contact: Dan Fitzsimmons, JLCNY, 607 775-5821  The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York issued the following press release in response to Governor Cuomo’s proposed permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing:   Dan Fitzsimmons, President of the Joint Landowners C [ ... ]

JANUARY 16, 2020 New York and Pennsylvania share a border and access to the Marcellus Shale – the largest natural gas field in the United States. But they do not share similar approaches to energy development. Pennsylvania has harnessed the potential of the Marcellus Shale and fracking technology. New York has taken the opposite approach by banning fracking and using creative legal tactics to t [ ... ]

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced legislation in the FY 2021 Executive Budget to make New York's fracking ban permanent. The measure would restrict the Department of Environmental Conservation from approving permits that would authorize an applicant to drill, deepen, plug back or convert wells that use high-volume hydraulic fracturing as a means to complete or recomplete a well, protecting the he [ ... ]

The Empire State’s economic performance since the end of the Great Recession hasn’t been especially outstanding, roughly equaling the US averages for growth in private employment and gross domestic product. But a closer look reveals a tale of two New Yorks. The 12-county metropolitan region that includes the Big Apple, with a population of 13.3 million, has gained jobs and grown personal inco [ ... ]

Pavillion, Wyoming has been a star in the fractivist sky for some time. It made a feature-performer out of Gasland hero John Fenton, but the star has fallen. The Wyoming County Department of Environmental Quality has studied Pavillion, the site of one of the greatest of fractivist myths, for six long years and just concluded, for the second time, that natural gas development is not responsible fo [ ... ]

By Jon Campbell / Gannett New York
Posted Dec 18, 2019 at 5:00 AM
CONKLIN — Dan Fitzsimmons was convinced the key to his family’s financial future was resting a mile beneath the surface. Major energy companies were willing to pay landowners life-altering sums of money for the oil-and-gas rights to their property, including Fitzsimmons’ 185 acres in rural Broome County. That is, they were w [ ... ]

HOUSTON — A decade ago, natural gas was heralded as the fuel of the future. In shale fields across the country, hydraulic fracturing uncorked a lucrative new source of supply. Energy giants like Exxon Mobil and Chevron snapped up smaller companies to get in on the action, and investors poured billions of dollars into export terminals to ship gas to China and Europe. The boom has given way to a  [ ... ]

Binghamton, NY - George Phillips, American History Teacher and Candidate for Congress issued the following statement on impeachment: "This truly is a sad day for our Republic. It would be impossible by any objective standard to find treason or serious crimes in the President's conduct that would warrant removal from office under the intent laid out by our Founding Fathers. It is also sad that C [ ... ]

Among the many subplots to emerge from recent impeachment hearings, one, in particular, might have been unexpected: fracking. In recent testimony to House lawmakers, Fiona Hill, John Bolton’s former direct report at the National Security Council and the White House’s former top expert on Russia, reported that Russian propaganda was working to undermine the use of hydraulic fracturing, aka frac [ ... ]