Wineries, Municipalities, and Residents Say No to Gas Strorage in the Finger Lakes

Texas-based Crestwood-Midstream has proposed to use salt caverns along Seneca Lake to increase its storage of natural gas. The proposal has generated opposition from over 200 businesses, over 50 wineries, 10 municipalities and thousands of residents in the Finger Lakes region who are concerned about the threat it poses to one
of the state’s largest supplies of drinking water, the local economy, and the area’s growing wine and tourism industries. Despite the widespread opposition to the company’s proposals to store methane, propane and butane along the shore of Seneca Lake and the DEC announcing a conference to address “significant and substantive issues” with it, the Texas-based company filed plans to begin construction on Monday August, 18.

http://archive.org/details/Crestwood18Aug2014

Press conference starts at 4 minutes 23 seconds. Speakers as follows:

• 00:04:23 Joseph Campbell, Gas Free Seneca
• 00:05:50 Sandra Steingraber, PhD-Co-founder, Concerned Health Professionals of NY
• 00:12:28 Rob McKenzie, MD FACHE, CEO Cayuga Medical Center (retired)
• 00:15:54 Will Ouweleen-Owner, Eagle Crest Vineyards
• 00:21:47 Michael Warren Thomas, Radio Host of “The Grapevine”
• 00:26:08 Steve Churchill, Supervisor-at-Large, Seneca County Board of Supervisors
• 00:31:07 Yvonne Taylor, Gas Free Seneca
• 00:33:48 Sandra Steingraber, PhD-Co-founder, Concerned Health Professionals of NY
• 00:38:24 Lynn Gerry
• 00:43:26 The Rev. Gary Judson, ret., United Methodist minister
• 00:44:53 Robert Lee McCaslin