EMC Environmental Issues:

Environmental Degradation:

• Environmentally safe natural gas exploration & drilling
  
• Junk and Illegal Landfills
• Illegal dumping and littering, especially along streams
• Stream/River Bank erosion
• Burn Barrels and open trash burning (now DEC regulated)
  
• Riparian vegetation removal
• Round hay bale plastic sleeves disposal
• Filling in of Flood plains
• Destruction of Historic Remains (Preserve and protect historic sites -- cemeteries, stone fences, buildings and barns, canal)
• Improve water quality of our streams and lakes
• Development of an Inventory of polluters
• Manure over application/misapplication
• Petroleum Bulk Storage (below regulatory threshold)
• Vacuum Pump Emissions
• Filling in of Wetlands
• Wetlands/River basin (disregard for)
• Pesticide/Herbicide/Fertilizer use on lawns
• Free-roaming pets, overabundant wildlife, predation and diseases

• Lack (and fear) of effective, practical, and enforceable zoning and land use laws.
• Natural Gas Wells & Pipeline Locations
  
• Loss of our Rural Character
• Unregulated Sprawl
• Open Space Planning
• Recreation Opportunities
  
• Natural Resource Inventory
• Role of Declining Economics and its Effects