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Date:

Saturday, September 21nd, 2013

Time:

10:00 AM To Noon

Bases:

Woodlawn State Park and Evangola State Park (Free admission)
Do your part to help mother nature!

Where:

At any of the 300 beaches in New York

Why:

To compile data to devise strategies to combat pollution
To increase public participation in solving the problems of pollution

To increase public appreciation of the coastal environment

Who:

Thousands of Volunteers from local groups, students, scouts, dive clubs, civic organizations, corporations, government agencies and the general public

Contact:

Sharen Trembath, Lake Erie Coordinator:
(716) 549-4330

Email:

info@GreatLakesBeachSweep.org

Our Energy Future: Determined by Science or Lobbyists?

Presented by John Droz, Jr. Physicist and Environmental Activist

OCTOBER 15, 2010 7:00 PM

Location: The Rapids Theater, 1711 Main Street, Niagara Falls New York

Admission is free! The public is encouraged to attend.

"With energy being one of the top three issues facing our nation and it having ever increasing impact on our daily lives (financially and environmentally), I believe it is important that people have a greater understanding of how our energy policy decisions are made, and the tactics being used by lobbyists to advance their products and causes," said Mr. Droz.

"Our nation's energy policy involves serious technical, economic and environmental challenges and it's important that citizens get educated on such technical matters — and then insist that their representatives make decisions based on science rather than politics" Droz said. "There is well over a trillion dollars at stake regarding electrical energy — in addition to potentially enormous impacts on our environment. This is worth getting up-to-speed on."

We are concerned about the proposed Great Lakes Offshore Wind Project (GLOW) for Lake Ontario and or Lake Erie. There are environmental, navigation, and economic concerns over this proposal. The New York Power Authority under Rich Kessel is pushing ahead at great speed before the public can be heard. The Power Authority wants to name a developer soon so that they (NYPA) can avoid dealing with the residents of NYS. NYPA is an unelected authority that answers to no one. Please attend this presentation and learn how wind energy is functions with the grid and if there are any benefits for New York State residents.

Similar plans are being pushed in Ontario so this is not just a New York State issue, the same concerns are relevant for both New York Sate and Ontario. It is important that everyone becomes informed.

Mr. Droz's presentation on the subject is considered to be the best in the country. So do not miss this highly informative presentation.

This event is being sponsored by the Great Lakes Citizens Action Group, NY Director for the Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council and the Rapids Theater.

Please help us spread the word about this event.

Thomas Marks
NY Director
Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council
Derby, NY 14047
716-997-6919

On Earth Day the Council is opening the door to data for New Yorkers. Access to information about New York State is made easier today with the launch of a new “Data Portal” feature added to the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Atlas portalnyoglecc.nyoglatlas.org . The Portal expands the capability of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Atlas (Atlas) – a web mapping application for viewing and downloading information.

The Council continues its mandate to make information on New York ecosystems and places freely available to the public and decision makers. Citizens can now easily search for information by simply typing key words into the Data Portal search box. The Data Portal has an easy to use keyword search function which searches 396 currently available sets of information. For public users, the Data Portal can open selected information right into GoogleEarth (a free data viewer) in addition to other formats used by geographic information technology professionals.

Now Atlas users can explore questions such as: What information has been collected related to wetlands? Where are the sea grass beds? How close is a proposed building to preserved lands, roads, and streams? Or, what’s the population difference between two counties? The Portal is a valuable tool that helps all New Yorkers to be better informed and better understand our environment, and the world around us. The Portal can be accessed directly at portalnyoglecc.nyoglatlas.org or through the Atlas Data Viewer at: www.nyoglatlas.org

The next planned phase of the Atlas will fully integrate the Data Portal with the Atlas Data Viewer application and add an additional 500 data sets.