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Oil and Gas Lease Sales

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Oil and Gas Lease Sales

The last state oil and gas lease sale was in 2006 for a handful of state forests in Central New York and the Southern Tier. The auction brought in $8.98 million into the state, not including royalties for successfully drilled wells.

Yearly State Leasing Data

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Yearly State Leasing Data

"In 2014, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation administered 79 leases on 44,464 acres of state land in Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, and Steuben Counties. There were 237 wells located on and/or unitized with state land associated with 65 of these leases paying production royalties."

"The 44,464 leased acres are unchanged from 2013."

"Revenues from oil and gas leases on state lands totaled $361,568 in 2014, a decrease of $41,072 from 2013. The decrease in leasing revenues paid to the state is attributed primarily to the drop in oil and natural gas prices during 2014. The average price of oil decreased from $98.45/bbl in 2013 to $94.75/bbl in 2014, while the average wellhead price of natural gas decreased from $3.52/mcf in 2013 to $3.34/mcf in 2014."

"Although nearly 59,000 acres of state land have been leased since 1999, only 37 (0.06%) of these acres have been disturbed by well drilling, access road and pipeline construction."

Freight train derails along Newburgh waterfront

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UPDATE: Freight train derails along Newburgh waterfront

"A CSX freight train whose cargo includes sulfuric acid derailed Tuesday afternoon on the West Shore line tracks along the Hudson River near the New Windsor-Newburgh border."

"First responders, ambulances and CSX personnel have responded to the scene. No information about possible injuries is available at this time."

"According to CSX, an undetermined quantity of fuel may have leaked from one of the train's locomotives, but no leaks of sulfuric acid have been reported."

"The train is believed to have struck a vehicle or front-end loader and derailed, according to State Trooper Steven Nevel. A locomotive came to rest sitting across nearby River Road."

"The train derailed at about 3:30 p.m. while traveling from Selkirk, N.Y., to Waycross, Georgia, according to the railroad. It consists of three locomotives and 77 freight cars total, including 38 loads of freight and 39 empty cars. The freight includes cardboard, corn oil and glass products as well as sulfuric acid and sodium hydroxide, also known as lye."

30 Years of Oil and Gas Pipeline Spills, Mapped

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30 Years of Oil and Gas Pipeline Spills, Mapped

"Over the last thirty years, just under 9,000 significant pipeline-related incidents have taken place nationwide, according to data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. (Not counted in this total are thousands of less “significant" pipeline-related malfunctions.)"

"To better understand the extent of this damage, CityLab mapped out all significant pipeline accidents between 1986 and 2016, based on data compiled by Richard Stover, an environmental advocate and former research astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. According to Stover, these accidents have resulted in 548 deaths, 2,576 injuries, and over $8.5 billion in financial damages."