The Department of Environmental Conservation began holding hearings on the proposed regulations that would govern natural gas drilling. New Yorkers have watched closely as fracking has unfolded in Pennsylvania and some are wary that environmental abuses could happen here–while others are eager for the economic boom drilling could bring. WSKG streamed the hearings live on the web from Dansville and Binghamton, and provides the archived audio below. An earlier, “unofficial” hearing in Oneonta was not streamed live but is archived for listening below:
Oneonta, NY “unofficial” hearing, Thursday, Nov. 10, 7:00 pm, Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta
Incomplete audio from the unofficial public hearing on the dSGEIS… Due to technical difficulties, the file ends after three hours, two minutes, fifty seconds… before the final two speakers.
Dansville, NY hearing, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1pm – 4pm:
Dansville, NY hearing, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 6pm – 10pm:
Binghamton, NY hearing, Thursday, Nov. 17, 1pm – 4pm:
Binghamton, NY hearing, Thursday, Nov. 17, 6pm – 10pm:
Ithaca, NY “unofficial” hearing, Thursday, Dec. 1, 7pm-11pm:
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Bill Huston
November 19, 2011
Thanks Greg, Scott, & Brian
Lisa barr
November 19, 2011
I serious about putting DEC in receivership over this SGEIS mess. There are many many great employees and they will have first hire preference and their retirements honored under a new, truly public service-oriented Watchdog Agency Under Design to protect our air land and water. Contact me at repealpatriotact@gmail.com. At the very least we must depose Martin and Cuomo for making us invest all this time to save our society. Dr. Lisa Barr AnIronDaisyCSAFarms otsego county
Bill Huston
November 19, 2011
Greg, these audio files seem to be captured form the live stream and are low-quality, subject to compression artifacts from the cell network. When will the broadcast quality versions be posted? Also I’m still looking for the audio from the SUNY Oneonta hearings on the SGEIS. Thanks. — BH
Gregory Keeler
November 19, 2011
Bill, actually WSKG’s policy on archived audio is to compress to a format that is low-bandwidth enough to work over dialup connections, so these are 32 kbps mono mp3 files. I have the originals in uncompressed WAV file format from our on-site digital recorder, although as you’ll hear the Dansville mult box supplied by the DEC had quite an audible hum on it. Binghamton is of better quality. On Monday, when I’m back in the shop I can post downloadable 128 kbps MP3 files.
Bill Huston
November 19, 2011
Thanks Greg! That will be a big help. I had to do a battery change,
so was hoping to use your audio to fill in a couple of gaps.
The 128k are off Scott’s recorder, correct? i.e., not from the live stream?
It’s the cell-net compression artifacts which were annoying me. Ordinarily,
32k should be fine for voice.
Roger on the Dansville hum. I noticed it too, especially at the
very end when they turned off the room ventilation. I find
Adobe Audition is pretty good about removing most hum,
but it has to be used in moderation, as denoising can also
produce artifacts. (I’m sure you know this already
PS: are you going to post the Oneonta audio?
PPS: are you going to broadcast any of this?
Best,
BH
Gregory Keeler
November 19, 2011
Bill, perhaps you’re reading email replies rather than seeing the original post… I’ve added the Oneonta audio at the top of the page.
The 128s are from the recorder Scott used, yes. I believe the files posted on this page were created in Adobe Audition from those uncompressed wav files, rather than our archive of the stream. They’d sound a lot worse if they came from the archive (I listened a lot to both hearings, we were concerned the cell call would drop randomly, as indeed it did in Binghamton twice.)
At any rate, I’ll make sure what we post Monday is indeed created from our source material.
Bill Huston
November 19, 2011
Thanks Greg. I might have missed it. I’m a bit exhausted.
Bill Huston
November 19, 2011
Didn’t see an answer to my PS or PPS though…
Gregory Keeler
November 21, 2011
Hi Bill… Oneonta audio posted on the hearings archive page. Broadcast planned of evening session of Binghamton hearings… Wednesday, 11/23, 7pm. MP3s in process, will appear as downloadable links later today on the hearings archive page.
Bill Huston
November 21, 2011
Wow! Thanks! WSKG-FM or WSQX-FM?
Gregory Keeler
November 21, 2011
WSKG.
Bill Huston
November 28, 2011
It was so awesome hearing the Voice of the People on WSKG last week! Thanks Greg, Scott, Brian, and all for making this happen.