And Now a Word from Our Environment

A few of the negative consequences of fracking.

Where do we find shale formations where fracking can take place?  In Texas  is  found the Permian Basin, Barnett Shale, the Eagle Ford Shale, and the Haynesville-Bossier Shale.  The Marcellus Shale reaches from central New York into Ohio and south to Virginia. The Bakken Shale is in North Dakota. What can go wrong?

Oil, Gas and What is fracking? It's Hydro Fracturing.

One alternative to fossil fuels is wind energy. How and where will it work and jobs, jobs jobs.

The overarching theme to our discussions today and in the future is Climate Change or the Climate Crisis or as I think about it Climate Chaos. This Climate Chaos affects all aspects of our lives, with  Energy in all its forms being the most critical. We use energy for manufacturing, transportation, heating and cooling and growing food. At this point in time, most of this energy comes from fossil fuels. The era of coal has ended.  While we may never completely eliminate oil and gas, fossil fuel is clearly on its way to being replaced by renewable energy.

The first part of a conversation I had with Tony Rose. We are both members of the Staten Island Environmental Communicators. This is one of the many videos and podcasts our group is making to inform Staten Islanders and others about our environment and encourage action. Tony and I are lifelong environmentalists. We hope you enjoy and learn from this discussion and that we will have piqued your interest to learn more and to do your part to make our world a healthy place to live.

The overarching theme to our discussions today and in the future is Climate Change or the Climate Crisis or as I think about it Climate Chaos. This Climate Chaos affects all aspects of our lives, with  Energy in all its forms being the most critical. We use energy for manufacturing, transportation, heating and cooling and growing food. At this point in time, most of this energy comes from fossil fuels. The era of coal has ended.  While we may never completely eliminate oil and gas, fossil fuel is clearly on its way to being replaced by renewable energy.

This recording was originally produced as a video titled The Campaign to Stop Shoreham, by Charlie Olson and myself and can be viewed at https://theenvironmenttv.com/2020/07/17/the-campaign-to-stop-shoreham-a-conversation-with-joel-kupferman-and-lenny-librizzi/

The Shoreham Nuclear Power Station is the only nuclear power plant that was completed and never produced electricity commercially. It was decommissioned in May 1995. This shutdown was due to over 20 years of many types of citizen activism and is a model for future activists.

Since the citizen actions in the 1970’s and 80’s no new nuclear power plants have been ordered by US utilities. Two major nuclear plant accidents at Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 26th, 1986 and at Fukushima, Japan on March 11th, 2011 left large areas of those countries uninhabitable.

Nuclear weapons and nuclear waste are an ongoing threat to our survival.

Rain is one of those things that you can’t live with it and can’t live without it. We have many words to describe rain. Listen to find out more about our word from our environment -Rain.

Listen to the sounds of Spring Peepers and learn about this interesting small frog found in Eastern United States.

This podcast is a rebroadcast of a radio show that originally aired on March 27th, 2020 called Eco-Logic with Ken Gale and Donna Stein and their guest, biologist and author, Abby Hafer.

Our word today is Coronavirus. This invisible killer has taken over our lives and in just a few months has had a profound effect on our environment.

And now a word from our environment.