Ready for Radon? with Jeff Zimmerman

As if the producers of natural gas didn’t already have enough headaches with radioactive waste, scientists and medical experts are now beginning to warn about high levels of radon in the gas from the Marcellus shale formation. The gas currently being brought to NYC from Louisiana has low levels of radon that decay during its travel time to New York. In contrast, gas from nearby Pennsylvania (and New York, if Governor Cuomo doesn’t stop fracking) has high levels of radon that won’t have a chance to decay before the gas gets to homes, apartments and restaurants in New York.

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the potential heath threat of radon with attorney and radon expert Jeff Zimmerman.

Fossil Fuel Thinking in NY with Cindy Zipf & Bruce Ferguson

Gas companies and their investors are busy building the infrastructure to transport and export frack gas from the US to areas of the world where demand (and prices) are high. Their latest idea is to construct a giant liquified natural gas terminal and anchor it in NY Harbor, just miles off Jones Beach and the coast of New Jersey.

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug welcome Cindy Zipf, Executive Director of Clean Ocean Action, and Bruce Ferguson of Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, to talk about the proposed gas terminal, what it really means for our energy future and how citizens can get involved in the effort to stop this fossil fuel madness.

For more info:

Visit the web site of the Clean Ocean Action

Visit the web site of the Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy

Pennsylvania with Vera Scroggins and Bill Cooke

You don’t know what fracking can do to a community until you live through it.

On this edition of Green Street we hear the voices of people whose lives have been turned inside out by the relentless industrialization caused by gas drilling in Pennsylvania, and what it means for New Yorkers.

Patti is joined tonight by special guest and frequent Green Street commentator, Bill Cooke. Anti-fracking activist Vera Scroggins joins us from her home in Pennsylvania, in the heart of fracking country.

For more info:

Check out Vera’s Web Site NEPA Gas Action 

Visit Grassroots Hydraulic Fracking webpage