Steven Reilly writes on Pressconnects.com - “Busloads of Southern Tier landowners, frustrated with delay after delay to drilling in the Marcellus Shale, trekked to the state capitol Wednesday to let lawmakers know they are tired of Albany raining on their parade.

Fittingly, it rained on their rally.

About 400 people, most of them members of the Joint Landowners Coalition of NY that organized the rally, braved the inclement weather to gather on the lawn in front of the state Senate building. There, they urged lawmakers to let the state Departmental of Environmental Conservation finish its review of the environmental impact of drilling before enacting any more legislation.

Linda Ward of Barker said “there’s no sense in cutting health care and education for people when we have this (Marcellus Shale) here.”

“The property taxes are just atrocious,” said James Ross, also of Barker. “This is growth that will give some relief to the hard-working people of New York state.”

Other landowners said their concerns aren’t that different from those of environmentalists.

“If you’re one acre or 1,000 acres,” Conklin’s Dell Boyle said, “we want to protect the community.”

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