Thanks to the great effort of more than 2,000 volunteers and dozens of community partners, here’s a recap of the work done on Friday and Saturday, in one hundred locations spanning hundreds of miles of shoreline from Brooklyn to Troy.
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CR: Jennifer Willis
The final rule from the U.S. Department of Transportation on crude oil trains— more than two years in the making — fails to address critical safety risks associated with the crude oil crisis. This rule will place communities nationwide in harm’s way for nearly a decade to come. The latest regulations continue a disturbing trend — pitting local communities against the multi-billion dollar oil & gas lobby.
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120 people attended the Future of the Wallkill River event in April 2015 at SUNY New Paltz. (Photo by Jeremy Cherson/Riverkeeper)
A new citizens movement is taking shape to give voice to the Wallkill River. Momentum is coming from Riverkeeper’s ongoing community science water quality monitoring project, and the debate in New Paltz about whether the Wallkill could or should be treated to supply the community […]
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We were out Saturday for a patrol of the Tappan Zee area and Sparkill Creek – including water sampling with our community partners on the Sparkill and Pocantico. As always, we had a look at the resident Osprey couple which nests on this light every […]
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In May 2014, a kayaker sent this image of a tug/barge carrying North Dakota crude oil and a Bald Eagle fishing. The contrast is stunning and poignant. Both are users of the River. One is sustainable, the other is not. One presents a huge risk, […]
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Photo: John Lipscomb
Mohawk River – Alplaus: A cold sunrise with sea smoke. The Mohawk is lovely. It doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. See highlights of the 2014 Patrol Boat Log in upcoming posts. And watch for highlights of the 2015 season on this blog and Riverkeeper’s […]
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“I live in the Hudson Valley and see these trains daily,” filmmaker Jon Bowermaster writes in today’s New York Times. See his video “A Danger on the Rails,” on the dangers that crude oil trains pose to the Hudson River. “Each of these train cars […]
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Crude oil transport via rail has increased by 4,000 percent in the United States over the past six years, with rail shipments of Bakken crude oil from North Dakota to New York increasing to approximately 20 percent of the total output from the region (view […]
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Local governments and citizens in the Hudson Valley are speaking out against the reckless transport of crude oil through our communities by passing local resolutions. Most recently: Dutchess County passed local resolution on Monday, April 13 Putnam County passed a resolution Tuesday, April 7. We […]
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The threat of disaster from oil trains is everywhere. The Mohawk, Lake Champlain, the Hudson River. It’s just a matter of time. Our friend John Garver posted this video Sunday of an oil train passing the confluence of the Schoharie and Mohawk rivers at Fort […]
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