CO2 “Fracking” the Southern Tier: A Closer Look
Webinar Date: Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024
Time: 7:30 pm EST (6:30 CST, 5:30 MST, 4:30 PST)
Presenter: Irene Weiser
This past fall, a company with the awkward name of “Southern Tier Carbon Dioxide (CO2) to Clean Energy Solutions” (STS for short) sent a mailing to 6500 land-owning residents in Broome, Tioga and Chemung counties in NY, soliciting leases for their participation in a project to provide “an environmentally and economically compatible solution for cooperatively capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide while generating clean and reliable energy” from the shale formations underlying their land.
In this webinar, Irene Weiser, a former elected official and long-time clean energy advocate, will examine the STS proposal, and discuss how, far from being a climate solution, it is an environmentally destructive, unsustainable experiment, full of costly false-solutions that will perpetuate reliance on polluting fossil fuels. The false solutions being proposed by STS are being proposed elsewhere in the country too. Join us to learn more about these false solutions and the federal subsidies that are supporting them!
Irene Weiser is a retired veterinarian and current green energy activist. For the past 12 years she has been the coordinator of Fossil Free Tomkins, working to effect local and state energy policy to get us off of fossil fuels and bring about the affordable, equitable transition to renewable energy. In addition, she was elected to three terms as a council member in the Town of Caroline, NY, serving from 2012-2020.To attend this free webinar hosted by First Presbyterian Union Church in Owego, NY, please contact Rev. Bruce Gillette at pastorbrucegillette@gmail.com for the link or with any questions about accessing the webinar.