By Rebecca Martin According to this “Report on the Impact of the Proposed Hudson River Landing Development on Kingston Water Department” created in 2007, it says that “the COK had a daily water usage of 3.28 million GPD (today, it is at 3.5 million GPD) and that at that time our ‘safe or dependable … Read more…
VIEW the post on KingstonCitizens.org VIEW the event invitation on Facebook WHAT Kingston Common Council Meeting Public Comment WHEN Tuesday, October 7th at 7:30pm WHERE Kingston City Hall Council Chambers (top floor) 420 Broadway (across from the Kingston High School) Kingston, NY ### By Rebecca Martin It’s great to see so many residents and … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”– George Bernard Shaw With the Kingstonian project’s State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) behind us, KingstonCitizens.org is in the midst of creating a detailed timeline of the process to be part of the public record. Doing so has taken us back nearly 20 … Read more…
(Logo Design: Susanna Ronner) For well over a decade, the activist, organizer and singer-songwriter Rebecca Martin has been an essential, galvanizing force of positive civic change. In her adopted hometown of Kingston, N.Y., and throughout neighboring cities and towns, she’s helmed inspired new programming with a mission of conservation and outreach. But most important, Martin … Read more…
A historic water sales referendum passed in Kingston: 3,625 to 737. Selling city water to outside entities currently falls under the purview of the Kingston Board of Water Commissioners, whose members are appointed by the mayor. The Common Council’s only role related to city water is to authorize any borrowing requested by the Water Board. … Read more…
My name is Rachel Marco-Havens, I live in Woodstock. Thank you. I am an active member of KingstonCitizens.org and am here also representing Earth Guardians NY, which is a youth Led organization who’s main focus is addressing solutions for Climate Change and working for the health and well being on the planet now, and for generations to come. The … Read more…
My name is Debra Bresnan and I live on Abeel Street in Kingston. I have been actively involved on the Executive Committee of KingstonCitizens.org since last October when I first learned of the Niagara proposal. I want to thank the members of the Common Council Caucus for their unanimous decision to recommend that Resolution #134 … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin The Town of Ulster (ToU) Town Board will meet on Thursday, January 22nd at 7:00pm. It was REPORTED that the new deadline for the Chazen Companies to submit a draft scoping document for Niagara was to occur on 1/22/15 which is tomorrow. Although at the last ToU Town Board Meeting Supervisor Quigley … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin The Town of Ulster Town Board will meet on Thursday, January 8th at 7:00pm. Although at this time, an agenda has not been posted to their site (we will continue to look for it and update this post when it is up), we expect that the board will have a discussion on … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin We wish to thank everyone for their swift support in signing the petition generated by a coalition of organizations that requests the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Committee and Governor Cuomo not to fund the Niagara Water Bottling Facility at this time. 1553 signatures and still growing at this time! VIEW PETITION We … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin KingstonCitizens.org hosted a public educational forum with our guest Alex Beauchamp from Food & Water Watch. Thanks to Clark Richters of Kingston News for capturing the bulk of the evening. 0:00 – 3:50 A brief history of bottled water 3:51 – 5:02 How has marketing convinced us that bottled water is safer? … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin There are new engineering documents now available on the City of Kingston Water Department site. The first is one many have been waiting to view. It is the CDM Smith ‘Niagara Water Bottling Plant Demand Analysis Results’ that the Kingston Water Board had had created to explore Niagara’s 1 million and 1.75 … Read more…
KingstonCitizens.org to host a public educational forum and discussion called “Bottled Water: Bad for the People and the Environment” on Thursday, December 4th at the Kingston Public Library 55 Franklin Street, in Kingston NY from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Guest panelist will be Alex Beauchamp, Northeast Regional Director of Food and Water Watch (Washington, DC). Kingston, NY – … Read more…
“We are writing concerning the proposed Niagra Bottling Plant SEQR review process. We are asking for a positive declaration on the following grounds. We strongly believe that both Cooper Lake and the location of the proposed Niagara plant are potential Level One archeological sites. We are writing concerning the proposed Niagra Bottling Plant SEQR review … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin Perhaps the most disappointing letter that I have seen in the past four weeks since beginning this work is one initiated by the City of Kingston’s Corporation Council Andrew Zweben – a public sector lawyer dated 10/24/14 -appears to be working against our Common Council’s memorializing resolution. Why?