Our beautiful county is being targeted by the oil and gas industry for one of their hit and run incidents. Drill'em and Build'em! Loud, noisy drilling rigs can be placed in our fragile riparian areas. Drilling can threaten our drinking water. We are threatened with noisy 24/7 compression plants, pipelines through pastures and wetlands favored by hunters, wild lands, and river ways. We need clean healthy air to breath and clean, safe water to drink. We need to insure there will be no fracking to poison our water sources. Time to act is very short. Strong ordinances need to be in place before drilling begins.

Seneca's Biomass Plant (repeatedly fined for violations) is now requesting a permit for major pollution level increases, purchasing unused 'pollution credits' from other plants, which will push it from a "minor" to "Major" source of pollutants under the Federal Clean Air Act. It's pollution controls for nitrogen oxides were "switched off" for seven months, and it seeks to increase hazardous emissions of hydrogen chloride, formaldehyde, acrolein, styrene, and carbon monoxide,' pumping 24/7 - (the latter alone 25,000 tons/week.) EPA says"'particulates' can aggravate asthma, bronchitis, lung disease, heart disease, and lead to premature death of health-sensitive people, including the very young and very old." The health of our children and elders should be top priority, and this permit and purchase of "pollution credits" should be stopped. How can the potential for "premature death" of our most vulnerable youth and elderly be either permissable or negotiable? We have only until November 22nd to respond.

Fracking requires tons of water to be mixed with toxic chemicals and pumped under ground at high pressure to crack the rock that naturally separates the gas from our water and air ways. The toxic waste water that doesn't remain in the ground must then be disposed of, and there is no good place to keep it. Farms and ranches in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been destroyed after fracking came to their land. Fracking is an energy intensive, invasive, unsafe way of harvesting fossil fuels that contribute to climate change. Frack wells release methane gas, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. We need better energy alternatives than this if we expect to leave a decent planet for our children. Keep fracked gas and fracking infrastructure out of Maine!

I have 3 grandsons who love to play vigorously outdoors--to play team sports, to swim and to run around the park playground. Whether they--and their children--will continue to enjoy the outdoors will be determined by whether or not oil companies exploit their current reserves. Climate experts tell us the planet will face catastrophic and irreversible temperature increases if we don't stop burning fossil fuels immediately. CalSTRS can pressure the fossil fuel industry to relinquish these future profits--and avoid financial calamity when this "carbon bubble" bursts--by divesting now. Investing instead in green energy companies will speed the day when alternative, sustainable energy replaces grossly overvalued oil.

Consumers have the right to know what they are eating. We are working now to affect the elections on this in Hawaii: Early Walk-In Voting - General Election OCTOBER 21, 2014 - NOVEMBER 1, 2014 GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014 7:00am - 6:00pm MAHALO FOR SIGNING & SHARING!

It is obvious that the Nuclear Power industry is insolvent. The upcoming Waste Confidence ruling, Senate bill S1240 funneling escrow waste money back to the nuclear industry through the new "Nuclear Waste Administration", and the upcoming ruling on Foreign Ownership of our Nuclear Reactors are strong indication that we need citizen activist participation on the commission and a FULL accounting of this heavily citizen subsidized industry.

Isn't it unnecessary to destroy a mature fir tree every year for the holidays at Rockefeller Center? Shouldn't the city transplant a permanent fir tree and leave it there? That way the city's tree would always be taller than the previous year and no more wonderful mature trees would have to die! It would be the perfect symbolic act given the Mayor's Million trees NYC initiative.

Fracking kills. It poisons our water and creates vast regions of desolation from man-made earthquakes. It is financed by corporations that wield a dangerous amount of influence and control over our lawmakers. These corporations care nothing for the welfare of their workers or for the people who live in communities devastated by fracking. We reject their power and we reject all forms of fracking!

STOPPING CLIMATE CHANGE. I have a house in Central America. the 50 year STORM is every year. The thermal imaging of the oceans on either side of Central America shows the red band hugging the shore line. the Coral Reef around the Blue Hole in Belize is dying because of the increase in ocean temperature. "Earth from Above" shows a band of weather around the middle of Earth not unlike the Bands of storm clouds on Jupiter.

I think solar is one of the only things that individuals can do to make a difference with global warming. Living in an island state the dangers of global warming are acute. So I don't think we should let any business institution, interest group or person stand in the way of letting families convert to roof top solar.

The Texas Drought Project recognizes that Texas is moving to a period of much greater aridity, with increasing desertification, and that Texas farmers, ranchers and residents will suffer as the oil and gas industry tries to drain Texas dry. We realize that this is not the answer to the problems with shale fracking, but it's a necessary first step.

Fracking can not be done without destruction of the environment. We live in an active fault zone and class 2 water injection wells are known to cause earthquakes. No amount of money can fix the destruction wrought by the New Madrid Fault fracturing.