Legal Rights of Local Governments: Home Rule vs. DEC's Regulatory System (1)

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United Church of Christ
Norwich, NY
January 27, 2011

The was the third meeting of the "Fourth Thursday's Speakers Series" informational forums on natural gas drilling issues. This time attorneys Mary Jo Long and Helen Slottje offered their expertise on the rights of local governments to control their land use.

Helen Slottje is a senior lawyer at CEDC, the Community Environmental Defense Council, working alongside Ithaca, NY area municipalities and citizens' groups who seek legal protection from the threats posed by industrial style natural gas extraction. CEDC focuses on sustainable development and the rights of the commons to clean water and air and a healthy environment.

Mary Jo Long has been a lawyer for more than 30 years, and a former legal director at Case Western Reserve. She has experience in constitutional, administrative and municipal law. An elected member of the Afton, NY Town Board, she recently helped pass their new "concentrated heavy traffic" road preservation law, the strongest in Chenango County.

Sponsor: Chenango Community Action for Renewable Energy (C-CARE)

Keywords: Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling

Legal Rights of Local Governments: Home Rule vs. DEC's Regulatory System (2)

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Keywords: Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling

Legal Rights of Local Governments: Home Rule vs. DEC's Regulatory System (3)

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Keyword: Marcellus Shale

Legal Rights of Local Governments: Home Rule vs. DEC's Regulatory System (Q&A)

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Related Links: Fleased New York; Community Science Institute

Keywords: Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling

Olive Harvest Delegation to Palestine - Seeking Peace Through Nonviolence (1)

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The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the subject of a talk by Jim Clune in St. James Church's Owens Hall in Johnson City, NY on Friday, January 14th, 2011. Jim, a longtime peace activist and member of St James' Peace and Justice Committee which hosted this event, recently returned from Israel and Palestine where he traveled with a delegation of Interfaith Peace Builders. Delegation members met with activists of both peoples working to promote human rights and dignity and justice. Jim said upon returning that "While two weeks is only enough time to get an inkling of what people deal with every day, it is up to us to do reality checks on what are the causes of the conflict and what our contribution to solutions might be."

Links: Fellowship of Reconciliation, Interfaith Peace Builders

Sponsors: St. James Peace and Justice Committee; Broome County Peace Action

Olive Harvest Delegation to Palestine - Seeking Peace Through Nonviolence (2)

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