New York State (427 articles) New York State is the only American state that borders Lake Ontario. Major cities on the U.S. side of Lake Ontario (the "south shore") include Rochester, population 220,000 and Oswego, population 18,000. Outside of these urban areas, the dominant land use on the south shore is rural, with many farms and smaller towns. There are two separate nuclear facilities here, at Ginna and Oswego.
|  | Days before the New Year, Brighton became the first town in Monroe County to enact a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial process of injecting a high-volume, high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals deep into the ground in order to extract natural gas from ancient shale deposits.Could the town of Rush be next?
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|  | Steve Orr in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle writes about the growing number of connections between fracking and earthquakes, November 16, 2011:
The surge in hydrofracking has meant a surge in injection wells to dispose of drilling wastewater — and those disposal wells are increasingly being linked to small earthquakes. Clusters of "induced" quakes in the Dallas-Fort... (more) | | (0 comments) Energy & Fossil Fuels New York State Other |
| | | Timothy Chipp in the Niagara Gazette writes about a NY State radioactive waste site on November 12, 2011:
The LOOW site was established after the federal government seized 7,200 acres of land in 1941, in the area now occupied partially by the Lewiston-Porter School District, for the purposes of creating the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT). Production lasted only nine months in... (more) | | (0 comments) Drink Environmental Law New York State Nuclear Industry Waste Management |
| | | Because of high levels of pollutants and overfishing, the sturgeon had long disappeared from the northern part of the Genesee River that empties into Lake Ontario.But many of the 1,900 sturgeon that were put into this stretch of the Genesee beginning in 2003 seem to have done well — a sign, federal and local officials say, that cleanup efforts are starting to pay... (more) | | (0 comments) Fish New York State |
|  | ALBANY -- An ambitious plan for what was to be the nation's first freshwater wind farm with as many as 150 large turbines in Lake Erie off Buffalo's shoreline is being halted, a state lawmaker with firsthand knowledge said Thursday.Less than two years after the New York Power Authority unveiled its wind turbine plan as a major generator of green energy and jobs in Western... (more) | | (1 comments) Development & Land Use Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish New York State |
|  | LOCKPORT — It appears discharges from the City of Lockport wastewater treatment plant may not to be to blame for the frequent closing of an Olcott beach this summer.Instead, Niagara County Health Department officials said Thursday that suspicion now points to seagull droppings on old piers flanking the beach as the source of bacteria that caused eight beach closings in... (more) | | (0 comments) Drink Environmental Law Fish New York State Sewers & Urban Runoff Swim |
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