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Long Beach, NY: Ban Fracking/Halt Port Ambrose LNG Port Rally 10/19/13

Posted on September 29, 2013 by iwilder |

Attend the upcoming Global Frackdown in Long Beach!  Global Frackdown 2–There is an important rally scheduled for Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM on the Long Beach boardwalk. Many groups and individuals concerned about our threatened environment are coming together to urge a ban on fracking and a halt to the misguided plan to build a LNG facility […]

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Public Hearing on LNG off Long Beach 9/9/09

Posted on August 28, 2009 by iwilder |

If you opposed BROADWATER, READ THIS: There is a public hearing on September 9 at 4:00 p.m. at SUNY Farmingdale regarding the Draft 2009 Energy Plan for NY, which includes LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminals off the shores of Long Beach(http://www.nysenergyplan.com/index.html). We need to act fast and strong to make sure LNG is denounced in the final Plan […]

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Anti-LNG 6/20/09 Rockaways, NY

Posted on June 19, 2009 by iwilder |

Please turnout this Saturday, June 20, from 11am to 2pm, for an anti-LNG event held by the Surfrider Foundation NYC Chapter at Rockaway’s 90th Street Beach on Long Island, NY.  The event will include a rally (they’ll have signs, etc. but feel free to bring your own), a press conference with some elected officials, a […]

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Rockaways Anti-LNG Meeting a Success!

Posted on April 26, 2009 by iwilder |

Friends, David Byer, Water Policy Attorney for Clean Ocean Action, has informed me the hearing at Belle Harbor, NY went very well. About 200 people attended the meeting, including a number of local elected officials and members of the broadcast media. The coverage of the hearing was good. David said that “the Rockaways community seems very active […]

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Report back from 4/19/09 LNG public hearing on LNG

Posted on April 20, 2009 by kwilder |

Onthewilderside received a report back on the April 19, 2009 LNG (liquefied natural gas) project hearing in Rockaway, concerning the proposed project activists have dubbed “Insanity Island.” See the read more below photos for the report from Nassau County resident Pat Goldsmith. The crowd estimate was about 400 people in all. About six elected officials, […]

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A Mini Film Festival on LNG: Spectacular Anti-LNG Videos

Posted on April 18, 2009 by kwilder |

Here in Long Island, there have been LNG projects proposed for Eastern Suffolk/The Long Island Sound and for Nassau County/Long Beach area. The Eastern Suffolk project, called Broadwater, had a recent setback in court. In Nassau County, environmentalists and activists are still having to get the message out to the public (and for the Environmental […]

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Sunday, 4/19/09: Come speak out against LNG

Posted on April 17, 2009 by kwilder |

** Update: Report back from the meeting: here. ** The third and final public hearing about the Atlantic Island Sea Group LNG will be held in Rockaway (Queens). Anyone interested in stopping LNG’s should come speak up. Heavy Nassau County contingent hoped for… Sunday, April 19 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Rockaway’s PS 114 “Belle […]

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Federal Gov’t rejects Broadwater’s proposal of LNG Terminal in Long Island Sound

Posted on April 13, 2009 by kwilder |

There is more coverage, background and links here at onthewilderside where we have covered this issue, and also at www.peacesmiths.org. A great victory! (excerpt from) Newsday Feds reject Broadwater’s plan for Sound By Tom Incantalupo / April 13, 2009 Broadwater opponents won a major victory Monday when the U.S. Department of Commerce upheld New York’s […]

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3/11/09 Extension for Insanity Island Comments/Stop LNG development off our shore

Posted on February 13, 2009 by iwilder |

Friends, We have received notification from the U.S. Coast Guard that, thanks to US Representative Frank Pallone’s request, the deadline to submit written comments regarding the scoping for the EIS for “Insanity Island” has been extended to March 11, 2009. If you have not submitted comments yet, there is still time! Instructions for submitting comments […]

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Update on “Insanity Island”, Long Island LNG project

Posted on February 1, 2009 by iwilder |

Long Island environmentalists are concerned that the company Atlantic Sea Island Group has proposed a massive man-made industrial island for a  Liquid Natural Gas facility (LNG) off the New York and New Jersey coasts. A public hearing was held in Long Beach on Thursday, January 27, 2009. A report back from Nassau green Jim Brown […]

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Imported LNG Will Undermine California’s Clean Energy

Posted on March 10, 2008 by iwilder |

Collision Course: How Imported Liquefied Natural Gas Will Undermine Clean Energy in California Executive Summary (download report: PacEnvCollisionCourse FINAL.pdf) California, the world’s twelfth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, stands at a crossroads. At a time of unprecedented public support — and urgent need—for aggressive, responsible action on global warming, plans are afoot to quietly shackle […]

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Boog City poetry, music, and theater fest 8/5 – 8/9/16

Posted on July 25, 2016 by iwilder |

Ian will be reading poetry at the Welcome to Boog City festival on Sunday, August 7, 2016 at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn at 12:25pm

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EdgeLeft: J. Edgar (movie), a review by David McReynolds

Posted on November 12, 2011 by iwilder |

J. Edgar (directed by Clint Eastwood, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Judi Dench, Armie Hammer) EdgeLeft: J. Edgar, A Review by David McReynolds (an occasional column, which may be distributed, reprinted and otherwise used without permission) J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) who, depending on your politics, looked much like a toad  . . .or a bulldog. . . was without […]

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Insanity Island Project Dead in the Water

Posted on July 28, 2010 by iwilder |

Coalition Elated by Company’s Decision Recently, the US Coast Guard and the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration formally acknowledged Atlantic Sea Island Group (ASIG)’s withdrawal of their permit application to construct “Safe Harbor Energy,” and closed the file on the project which was a massive man-made island in the Atlantic Ocean to import foreign liquefied […]

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