Natural Gas Development Info Meeting Town of Colesville Sept, 27th 2012  (post presentation)
Channel: Leland T Snyder
Date: 2012-09-30

To be clear, here is the full description of the meeting off the townofcolesville.org website at the time of the meeting.

S P E C I A L ** T O W N ** M E E T I N G
The Town Board of the Town of Colesville will host an Informational Meeting on Thursday, September 27, 2012 on the exploration and development of natural gas in the Town of Coleville.  The meeting is scheduled to be held from 7-9p.m. at the Harpursville Central School Auditorium on Main Street, Harpursville.  A presentation will be made by Bob Williams an Environmental Engineer and Chris Burger, Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition, Chair.  The meeting will serve as a public forum for Colesville Residents.  Town of Colesville residents will be given priority over non-residents to comment and ask questions.  

The rules were after the presentation:
*First a Q&A period for residence.
*One question each.
*No talkback.
*then time permitting, 2 minute podium time for residence.
Second a question time for non-residence.

Meeting ran out of time in resident question period.  Total of 17 questions asked.
I'm paraphrasing the questions here:

3:00  1:25 Millions of gallons to frack,where will the water come from, and what will be the water usage priorities?
7:40  0:50 Recent news that NYS has not properly regulated drilling  Can you speak on this?
13:20 1:00 What is the contingency plan to maintain my standard of living?
15:20 1:00 How can you say property values are depreciated in PA?
19:10 0:25 who do I sue if something goes wrong?
26:40 0:23 Can they put gathering lines on our land?
29:40 0:50 What is the big deal in waiting?

30:55 0:25 Current town resident questioner breaks rules (civil disobedience) by making comment.  I was told after meeting that a LEO started walking towards him about at this moment.  He stayed for the rest of the meeting, no action was taken.

37:30 1:20 Who's going to protect me when the problems arise after the companies and big land owners are gone.
40:20 0:15 Claim people in a part of PA at least, are getting water buffalo and gagged.  Is that fair?
42:00 0:05 (again ... I don't think my question was answered.) r: we do have to move along.
42:20 1:40 Where is the figure on what they are going to get?
45:50 1:35 What is the purpose of people ("rock stars") who don't live here talking on the topic.
48:00 0:40 Has regulation tightened up?
53:00 0:45 Years ago we heard about a fracking gel that was suppose to be the answer to water, can you talk about this?
57:20 0:20 How many gallons of water are used for each well?
59:35 2:15 How can you say (sic) this has not caused water contamination?