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Natural Gas Debate Heating Up

asdfIn his weekly “Morning Headlines” segment on WAMC Public Radio, Albany, Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal Editor Jim Kevlin this morning discussed op-ed pieces on natural gas and the Constitution Pipeline that appear in this week’s print editions, AND ARE REPRINTED BELOW. 

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ISSUE & DEBATE

New Pipeline Won’t Cure

Otsego County’s Poverty

Editor’s Note: Kate O’Donnell, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Hartwick College.  This is reprinted from this week’s Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal editorial page.

By KATHERINE O’DONNELL

Katherine O'Donnell
Katherine O’Donnell

Rural poverty is widespread and persistent in the U.S. Rural labor options, mass centralized industrialization, and urbanization cause rural people, usually the young, to migrate to urban areas for better paying jobs in more diverse labor sectors.

These structural forces have produced outmigration from U.S. rural areas since the 1800s. In our area, the existence of the railroad and subsequent educational and healthcare developments diversified our local economy and created more job opportunity than in more solely agriculture-dependent areas…

READ DR. O’DONNELL’S FULL OP-ED PIECE

 

Life Without Fossil Fuels?

Careful What You Wish For

Editor’s Note:  Mike Zagata, Ph.D., who lives in Davenport, is a former commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.  This is reprinted from this week’s Free

By MIKE ZAGATA

Mike Zagata
Mike Zagata

There is virtual agreement that we must move away from fossil fuels to energy sources that are renewable.

First, fossil fuels are non-renewable, i.e. at some point we will run out of them.  Second, there are scientists and politicians that believe the burning of fossil fuels contributes to climate change.

No matter which reason one chooses to support, there is a legitimate need to begin now to seek energy sources that are renewable and increasingly more environmentally friendly…

READ DR. ZAGATA’S FULL OP-ED PIECE

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