2 With County Ties Win Prize For Fossil-Fuel Fight Two environmentalists with local ties – Keith Shue and Jay Egg – share 2020 Constellation Prize for Policy Impact, for helping derail a fossil-fuel project that would have served the Empire State Plaza in Albany. The prize is presented by a group of environmentalists and social scientists from across the country.…
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LETTER from DICK DOWNEY Benefits Of Gas Aren’t Fossil-Fuel Fiction To the Editor: Bob Eklund (“Praise For Fracking? Let’s call It Fossil-Fuel Fiction,” Jan. 2-3, 2020) and I are opposing veterans of the Gas Wars and almost friends. The environmental and economic benefits of gas are NOT fiction. The EPA reports CO2 emissions peaked in 2007 as gas replaced coal in electric power generation. By 2017 emissions dropped 28 percent to 30-year lows. Emissions fell another 2.1 percent last year,…
LETTER from BOB EKLUND Praise For Fracking? Let’s Call In Fossil-Fuel Fiction To the Editor: Normally, I would not respond to such pithy paeans of praise to the poison profits of pipelines as recently described by Mr. Zagata (Nov. 28-29) in this space. However, since my name and likeness, along with friend and fellow environmental activist Nicole Dillingham, were used as poster people for the piece, I feel I must. First I must admit surprise at Zagata’s entry into fossil-fuel…
Allstadt, Russell Fossil-Fuel Debate Topic Of Column In New York Times COOPERSTOWN – Under the headline, “Much Ado in Cooperstown, N.Y., Over Vote to Dump Fossil Fuel Stocks,” New York Times business columnist James B. Stewart has assessed the multi-week debate in The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta between Lou Allstadt and David Russell on the Village Board’s decision to divest fossil-fuel stocks from one of its pension portfolios. “The trustees of Cooperstown, N.Y., hardly expected their village (population 1,834) to emerge…
Fossil-Fuel Business Facing Major Change Letter to Editor by LOU ALLSTADT The Freeman’s Journal, Nov. 25, 2016 To the Editor: I am again compelled to respond to Mr. Russell. First, to remove any confusion, accompanying this letter is a graph published by S&P Dow Jones, which I made available to this newspaper two weeks ago. (To see chart, click image at left). The lower line is the original S&P500 index. The upper line shows the newer S&P500 index excluding fossil…
Expert Opinion, Advice Mixed On Future Performance Of Fossil-Fuel Stocks Letter to Editor by DAVID RUSSELL The Freeman’s Journal, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2016 To the Editor: I read with interest Cooperstown Village Trustee Lou Allstadt’s response to my article regarding the Cooperstown Village Board’s decision to divest fossil-fuel stocks in the firefighters’ and emergency workers’ defined benefit plan. I thought some of his points merited a response from me. It was refreshing to see Mr. Allstadt lay out a fiduciary…
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170 PARTICIPANTS HEAR MANY IDEAS FOR FUEL FUTURE Chamber’s Rubin: Exciting Information Exchanged, But ‘Now The Work Begins’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In the end, 170 – up from 125 a week ago, and 155 a couple of days ago – today listened for eight hours to presentations on the United States’ – and Otsego County’s – energy future from some of the most knowledgeable people in New York State. The venue was the Otsego County…
For all of the proselytizing by state politicians and downstate activists, we are going backward. Since the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act became state law in 2019, New York’s reliance on fossil fuels for electricity has jumped by a third.…
The Town of Otsego’s informational meeting was structured in two parts. Initially, attendees heard presentations by Steve Helmin and Keith Schue, two persons familiar with current green energy issues.…