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<\/a><\/p>\nOk, now that you know where I’m coming from, I’m guessing you agree, or you would have stopped reading by now. If you are also opposed to fracking and<\/em> live in New York State, there’s currently an opportunity to take a step to protect the environment. That step is support of Senate Bill #4616. This bill will make the drillers follow the same rules for the disposal of their waste that every other business does – hospitals and farmers, auto body shops and building contractors, factories and…well, everybody. Except the oil & gas industry, who gets a pass on regulations. And on disclosing what, exactly, they use in their fracking fluid.<\/p>\n You can google SB 4616 and get tons of information, so I’m not even going to try to give you more here. I’m just going to suggest, strongly<\/em>, that you contact your NYS senator THIS WEEK<\/em> and encourage him or her to vote FOR<\/em> SB 4616. If you write a letter or send an email, send a copy of it to Dean Skelos, Senate Majority Leader & Chair of the Senate Rules Committee. (I believe the bill is still in the Rules Committee.) Here’s Senator Skelos’ contact info:<\/p>\n Albany Office District Office<\/strong> Your turn: let me know if you have any positive results.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upfront full disclosure – this post is not ‘fair and balanced.’ Also, I don’t claim to know enough to be able to have a good debate with a really well-read person on the other side of the issue. There are tons of websites where you can get all the graphs, charts, and arguments, both pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Legislative Office Building, Room 909
\nAlbany, NY 12247
\nPhone: (518) 455-3171<\/p>\n
\n55 Front Street
\nRockville Centre, NY 11570
\nPhone: (516) 766-8383<\/p>\n