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Aug 03, 2011 12:25 am
'Fracking' comment period firm
Brian Nearing in the Albany Times-Union reports that New York Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens spoke with the Times Union Editorial Board about High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing and said the department is unlikely to extend its 60-day comment period on the proposed rules. "I am inclined to stick with the 60 days," said Martens. "In 2009, when DEC first unveiled proposed draft rules on hydrofracking, there were nearly 14,000 comments for the department to consider, prompting the department to come back with the revised draft rules," Nearing reports. Martens said the department was considering increasing the bond that well drillers must provide to pay for the cost of unforeseen environmental cleanups, now just $5,000. Read the full story in the Times-Union.

Mountain Top Arboretum adds cell phone tours
The Mountain Top Arboretum in Tannersville, has added cell phone-led audio tours of the grounds and podcasts of information about the site at MTArboretum.org. The arboretum has three distinct zones: the West Meadow with native and non-native conifers, and exposed, 375-million-year-old, Devonian-era bedrock, and a butterfly garden; the Woodland Walk is a deer-fenced area designed to preserve the native habitat, including the native wildflowers and Mountain Laurels planted there; and the East Meadow includes the Pine Grove, Fern Trail, and Pump House, an early 20th century building now used as an irrigation system for the meadow. Call 518-261-8300 for the audio tour that takes about a half hour for each of the three zones.

Black Dome Press changes hands
Jim Planck in The Daily Mail reports that publisher Deborah Allen of Black Dome Press in Hensonville, is retiring, selling the company to long-time Black Dome editor Steve Hoare, of Delmar. “We’ve had great authors, loyal readers, wonderful supporters, active distributors and dealers -- everyone that it takes to make a publishing house successful,” Allen told Planck. Hoare will keep up the imprint's local tradition. “The intention is to stay ‘local’,” he said in the story, “focusing on books of interest to readers in the Hudson Valley, Catskills, Adirondacks, Capital Region, Lake George and Lake Champlain, Berkshires, and Mohawk Valley.” Read the entire story in The Daily Mail.
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