I understand the anger because the fracking meeting was canceled but being angry at the EPA is missing the target.
EPA was forced to cancel the August 12th meeting following a conversation this morning with the Onondaga County Executive’s office, during which they expressed concerns about the ability to complete preparations for the meeting on such short notice. The last minute change to Syracuse was caused by Binghamton University taking several actions to dissuade EPA from holding the meetings at their campus including increasing the cost from $6,000 to almost $40,000. The Agency also reached out to Broome County officials in Binghamton to hold the meeting at the Arena and they pulled out of negotiations with EPA. The Agency searched a 40 mile radius from Corning to Ithaca to Cortland to Oneonta but no options were available for Thursday. Onondaga County officials did not feel they could arrange the necessary security for the potential protests and rallies outside the meeting itself, and EPA respects and understands their decision.
The entire letter is on DRC‘s News Gathering Blog.
Use your anger energy to organize for the meeting that is scheduled for September.
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This is very important information. It means that the "enemy" is afraid of the EPA! The EPA is our one and only hope in Tx. So, the EPA needs to wise up and realize that they are operating (environmentally speaking only) in a so-called foreign country! Tx is taken over by O&G and other energy and polluting entities. Public meetings will result in little results in Tx.
We, in the Marcellus Shale- New York and Pennsylvania, will get our act together and put our collective energies into the September EPA hearings. I think what happened (and I still don't know exactly what happened) will motivate us and infuse new resolve in all of us. Certainly there has been a lot of press about it, and many more people now know about it. It's all good for our cause I think!