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UB Sez: Release the Fracken!
May. 16 | The University at Buffalo’s Shale Resources and Society Institute’s “peer reviewed” “research” is really not to be missed. 34 pages of justification for fracking followed by a brief summary of 25 major environmental disasters caused...
Interesting News Clips from the week thus far!
May. 16 | City owned Webster Block, currently a parking lot across the street from the First Niagara Stadium, is on the market. A Request for Proposals was sent out a few weeks ago, due back in in June. The question is… Is there any relationship between that...
Candidate College, June 16
May. 16 | Candidate College Demonstrates How Anyone Can Run for Elected Office Date: Saturday, June 16th 2012 When: 8:30-5:00 PM Where: YWCA of WNY 1005 Grant Street (bet. Amherst and Military) Cost – $15 Partnership for Public Good, YWCA of WNY, New...
FrackU: UB releases its first “peer reviewed” research of fracking
May. 16 | The Buffalo News, Forbes, Buffalo Business First and a host of the usual suspects were only too happy to report on the University at Buffalo’s press release announcing its first “peer reviewed” “research” on fracking....
Combatting Poverty through Early Childhood Education on this week’s Public Good
May. 15 | PPG has a radio show, the Public Good, each Tuesday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm on WUFO AM 1080. Each week we feature a PPG Partner or other person working toward the public good and discuss some of the region’s hottest issues. Tuesday, May 15, at 1pm,...
Report: All Fracking Wastewater Disposal Methods Fail to Protect Public Health and Environment
May. 14 | Natural Resources Defense Council All currently available options for dealing with contaminated wastewater from fracking are inadequate to protect human health and the environment, but stronger federal and state protections can better safeguard against...
CARE Listening Sessions: We NEED Your Input!
May. 14 | Attention Residents of Tonawanda, We NEED Your Insight! Tonawanda’s industrial zone has the highest concentration of air-regulated facilities in the state. Within a two mile area, the town had 53 facilities. Two major interstate highways intersect...
What Zone Do You Live In?
May. 14 | For the last two years the City of Buffalo has been preparing a new zoning ordinance. This new ordinance includes laws that govern where certain types of industry is allowed to be placed. Come learn how the Government decides where to place industry...
Raise the Minimum Wage
May. 11 | PPG co-director Sam Magavern testified at a public hearing on increasing New York State’s minimum wage. There is currently a bill in the New York State legislature introduced by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assemblyman Keith Wright, D-Harlem,...
Lookout for Lake Sturgeon
May. 11 | DEC ADVISES ANGLERS TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR LAKE STURGEON IN THE GREAT LAKES AND ONEIDA LAKE Anglers should be aware of spawning lake sturgeon in tributaries of the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, Finger Lakes and Oneida Lake, the New York State...
More than a Fish Fry: Eating Fish from our Local Waterways
May. 8 | May 4, 2012, 12 noon – 1 p.m. More than a Fish Fry: Eating Fish from our Local Waterways Katy Brown, Public Health & Environmental Justice Project Manager, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper What better way for Katy Brown to start her presentation on...
The Big News and Hidden News
May. 8 | From the good folks at Wind Power Monthly magazine: http://www.windpowermonthly.com/news/1129821/Enercon-build-biggest-E-126-wind-farm-date/ – the first of the 38 x 7.5 MW wind turbines being installed at a Dutch wind farm called Windpark Noordoostpolder....
More algae problems anticpated in 2012
May. 4 | ENVIRONMENT: More algae, more problems Algae levels are one factor that Monroe County uses to determine whether to permit swimming at its beaches. The mild winter could mean a spring and summer where algae blooms are a bigger problem than usual in Lake...
LaSalle Pride to install canoe launch at park
May. 4 | NIAGARA FALLS — A city park off Buffalo Avenue will soon feature a new offering for canoe enthusiasts. Mayor Paul Dyster and members of the organization LaSalle Pride gathered at Griffon Park Wednesday afternoon to discuss plans for a new canoe...
Lackawanna Community Conversation on Health Equity Saturday
May. 3 | Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, D-58th District, announced that he is teaming up with local healthcare providers and advocates to sponsor an event to discuss opportunities to improve community health. The Community Conversation on Health Equity will be held...
Erie County’s New Process for Funding Arts and Culture, May 21
May. 3 | Erie County’s New Process for Funding Arts and Culture A Partnership for the Public Good Forum Monday, May 21 12:00-1:30pm 237 Main Street, Suite 1200 Maria Whyte, Erie County Commissioner of Environment and Planning Laurie Dean Torrell, Greater Buffalo...
Greening Canal Side, May 15
May. 3 | Greening Canal Side: A Public Brainstorming Session Tuesday, May 15 5:30pm to 7:00pm At Canal Side Meet at the Naval and Military Park In front of the Museum Canal Side is one of the largest and most exciting developments occurring in Buffalo. What...
The Fracking Window
May. 3 | One of the new RE Power 2.05 MW MM92 wind turbines installed by Everpower at their Howard Wind Farm in Steuben County, NY (so far 25 installed, two more to go). It sure beats looking at a pontification advertisement by noted horse admirer and local...
Peak Oil Update – A Decade of Observation
May. 1 | Sometimes a graph comes along that says a lot and is really easy to understand. Here is one of them, via http://gregor.us/oil/global-oil-production-update-eia-revises-two-decades-of-oil-data/ with hat tip to http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/04/a-peak-oil-update.html:
Mocking Donald Trump in Scotland
Apr. 28 | from http://www.aberdeenrenewables.com/key-projects/eowdc/ and also a great summary of what this battle (in Scotland) really is all about. There is a massive offshore efforts going on in the waters around the British Isles these days, one that...
Big News for Buffalo Recycling
Apr. 26 | Help form the Buffalo Recycling Alliance! The City of Buffalo has dramatically increased its residential recycling rates with its new totes. PPG and its allies want to build on that success with a Buffalo Recycling Alliance that will work to increase...
Medina Memorial Hospital Workers Plan Picket
Apr. 26 | (Medina, NY) – Employees of Orleans Community Health’s Medina Memorial Hospital have notified Federal, State, and hospital officials that they intend to engage in informational picketing on May 3 if no agreement is reached in their months long...
