{"id":99700,"date":"2023-12-29T05:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T10:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=99700"},"modified":"2023-12-29T05:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T10:45:01","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-sacrifice-zone-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2023\/12\/29\/letter-to-the-editor-sacrifice-zone-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Sacrifice Zone Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Enhanced gas recovery and carbon sequestration are \u201cSouthern Tier Solutions\u201d, according to Texan Bryce Phillips, president of a company bearing that name, who is selling his snake oil in Tioga, Broome, and Chemung Counties, promising to meet the goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act while enriching landowners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Even if this first in the nation process fulfills his goal to be a \u201cblueprint for the free world\u201d without causing earthquakes or radon and heavy metal migration as a consequence of pumping CO2 for storage beneath our farmland, there is a price &#8211; turning our rural land into a massive factory floor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Is this what we want? Upon reviewing municipal comprehensive plans, I found not one of them to envision heavy industrialization replacing farmlands. Tioga County\u2019s 2020 Strategic Plan lists niche agriculture and natural resources as an economic opportunity. Broome County highlights the groundwater recharging benefits of farmland. Residents of the Town of Erin in Chemung County place \u201cpeace and quiet\u201d and \u201cbeauty of natural surroundings\u201d at the top of their list of why they live there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Phillips says he\u2019ll go away if we don\u2019t want to become the proving grounds for his \u2018solution\u2019. Who\u2019s going to show him the way back to Texas?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gerri Wiley<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Owego, N.Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enhanced gas recovery and carbon sequestration are \u201cSouthern Tier Solutions\u201d, according to Texan Bryce Phillips, president of a company bearing that name, who is selling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter to the Editor: Sacrifice Zone Revisited - Owego Pennysaver Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2023\/12\/29\/letter-to-the-editor-sacrifice-zone-revisited\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter to the Editor: Sacrifice Zone Revisited - 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