Community task forces are groups that have been formed at a community/municipality level to look at the range of issues that will impact communities if gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale moves forward.
Ideally these groups include local government officials, as well as staff and community leaders, with members representing different perspectives. Their broad task is to examine issues that might be mitigated, minimized and/or capitalized on, and monitored. The CCE/Marcellus Shale Team seeks to provide information for existing community task forces and communities that are interested in forming new task forces to focus on Marcellus Shale impacts.
How to Organize
Marcellus Shale Exploration and Development: Organizing a Community Task Force - Penn State Cooperative Extension.
Citizens' Guide to Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania - provides a brief overview of potential impacts, the regulatory process in PA, how residents may participate in the process, and where to go for more information. National Sea Grant Law Center and Pennsylvania Sea Grant (Fall, 2010)
Community Task Forces involved with the Marcellus Shale in New York State:
Chemung County Energy Commission
Chenango County Natural Gas Committee
Schuyler County Energy Task Force
Steuben County Natural Gas Task Force
Sullivan County Gas Drilling Task Force
Tioga Investigates Natural Gas - TING
Tompkins County Gas Drilling Task Force
Yates County Marcellus Shale Task Force
Resources
Natural Gas Landowner Coalitions in New York State: Emerging Benefits of Collective Natural Resource Management in Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 26(1) by Jeffery Jacquet & Richard C. Stedman (2011)
TING Resource Binder and Resource Binder Checklists are frequently updated by the TING Steering Committee. To access current versions, visit the TING website; click on the links found in the left column menu.
Town of Ulysses resolution #1 (4/13/2010)
Request to Gov. David A. Patterson to withdraw the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement related to horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing to develop Marcellus Shale and other low-permeability reservoirs.
Town of Ulysses resolution #2 (4/13/2010)
Resolution to support proposed state legislation urging stricter oversight of horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing used in the extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation.
Presentations
A Systems Approach to Energy Transitions: Land, Economic and Community Transformations
Presentations from the Conference held on March 30-31, 2011 in Watkins Glen, NY
- Marcellus Shale: Economic Development Implications - Timothy W. Kelsey, Ph.D., State Program Leader, Economic & Community Development, Penn State University
- Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling: What Should We Plan For? - Susan Christopherson, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
- Energy Planning in New York State - John Williams, Director of Energy Analysis, NYSERDA
- Overview of Recent Climate Legislation: Overall Impacts and Opportunities for the Agriculture and Forestry Sector - Antonio M. Bento, Ph.D., Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
- Systems Approach to Energy Transitions - Albert R. George, Ph.D., Mechanical , Aerospace & Systems Engineering, Cornell University
- Natural Gas, Wind and Biofuels - Jeffrey Jacquet, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Natural Resources, Cornell University
- Supplies of Sustainably Produced Biomass in New York - Timothy A. Volk, Sr. Research Associate, SUNY Environmental School of Forestry
- Pennsylvania Energy Impacts Assessment - Nels Johnson, Deputy State Director, The Nature Conservancy, Pennsylvania Chapter
- Planning for Energy Transitions - Daniel A. Spitzer, Partner, Hodgson Russ LLP