{"id":4189,"date":"2011-05-03T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2011-06-01T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:07:44","slug":"has-nys-dec-commissioner-gone-to-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/03\/has-nys-dec-commissioner-gone-to-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Has NY&#8217;s DEC commissioner gone to ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed state Conservation commissioner Joe Martens on Friday in Moriah, where he spoke about flooding in the region, the effort to inspect dams, and concerns about backcountry infrastructure damaged by the spring weather.<\/p>\n<p>But the Times-Union&#8217;s Brian Nearing says Martens is declining to sit down for more measured and three-dimensional conversations about the DEC and its handling of issues such as hydro-fracking, state land purchases and staffing levels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DEC spokesman Michael Bopp today told the Times Union that Martens, who  was appointed to the post and approved by the Senate last month, has  \u201cpulled back\u201d from interview requests because the short-staffed  department has too much important work to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Nearing notes, Martens did appear last month on the public radio program <a href=\"http:\/\/thecapitolpressroom.org\/\">The Capital Pressroom<\/a>, so it&#8217;s not like he&#8217;s been invisible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed state Conservation commissioner Joe Martens on Friday in Moriah, where he spoke about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}