A
People’s Hearing on Fracking
will be held on June
2, 2012
at the
Burchfield
Penney Art Center and Buffalo State College
from 10am-4:30pm.
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| www.peopleshearing.com |
The event is FREE
and open to the public.
Please see the
event web site for a full schedule of events, links, and bios of
speakers and artists.
A People’s Hearing on Fracking
is bringing Buffalo’s amazing artistic and cultural community
together with WNY’s hard working environmental community to create
an informational, fun, and culturally significant event. The goal is
to create a synergy that will draw as many people as possible to
engage in clean water issues. Live stream video will immediately
carry the proceedings to a world stage.
There are three components to A People’s Hearing on Fracking:
There are three components to A People’s Hearing on Fracking:
Featured Speakers
and Workshops:
An
exciting variety of speakers and workshops are available for public
attendance and participation. Nationally recognized speakers include
Ruth Breech of Global Community Monitor, Dr. Jill Kriesky from the
University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health, Bill
Belitskus of the Allegheny Defense Project, and former energy insider
James “Chip” Northrup. New York State speakers and presenters
include Jim Anderson of Citizen Action, Larry Bennett of Ommegang
Brewery, Sarah Buckley of POWR, Jay Burney of the Learning
Sustainability Campaign, Robert
M. Ciesielski of the Sierra Club, Joseph
Heath Esq. the Chief Counsel for the Onondaga Nation, Dr. Stephen
Cleghorn, Luella Kenney, and Rita Yelda of Food & Water Watch /
WNY Drilling Defense, as well as event host Bruce Fisher, Director
of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies at Buffalo State
College.
The
Hearing:
A People’s Hearing on Fracking
will give Western New Yorkers a chance to publicly state their views
in a way that was denied to this region by the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation during the DEC’s Fall 2011
draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on
fracking. The DEC held four public Hearings downstate, but none were
held in Western New York. A People’s Hearing on Fracking
will provide WNY the Hearing the DEC should have provided! There are
forty 3-minute public speaking slots scheduled between 1:30 and 3:30
in the Burchfield Penney Auditorium. Transcripts from the Hearing
will be delivered to elected officials at all levels of government:
local, state, national, and international. (Note that there will
video testimony options if more than 40 people sign-up to speak.)
People can sign-up on-line prior to the event.
Music, Cultural and
Artistic:
This family-friendly day will include
children’s crafts and science experiments, as well as live music
and theatrical performances. Featured artists will include the 12/8
Path Band, David Kane & nimbus dance, Nancy Parisi, Michele
Costa, the crack horse, and Clandestina. There will also be a
children’s book nook by Burning Books, and Nichols School
environmental students (lead by their teacher Josh Ring) presenting
science demonstrations on the effects of fracking.
Food will be available at
the Burchfield Penney Café.
Please encourage people to
come and let WNY’s true voice on this life or death issue be heard!
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