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Tag Archives: Sullivan County
Cuomo’s Flawed Vision of Natural Gas in NY
The most significant problem in Cuomo’s plan is that it continues the discussion of drilling for natural gas near New York City’s water supply. To be sure, the policy is that “any drilling in the Marcellus Shale must be environmentally sensitive and safe.” The problem is that under current technology no drilling can guarantee that our water supply would not be threatened. This entire discussion should be taken off the table. New York’s water system is a rare and essential natural and engineering wonder. Continue reading
Posted in Contamination, Delaware River Basin, Energy, Fracking, Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Hydrolic Fracturing, Legislation, Marcellus Shale
Tagged Delaware River Basin, Fracking, Fracking Fluid, Gas Drilling, hydraulic fracturing, hydraulic fracturing. Marcellus Shale, Hydrolic Fracturing, legislation, Marcellus Shale, natural gas, Sullivan County
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Fracking: A Concern For Every Citizen
In spite of gas’ reputation as a “clean” form of energy, hydrofracking it appears to be anything but.
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Posted in air pollutants, Benzene, Bush Cheney, Chemicals, Clean Air Act, Contamination, Delaware River Basin, Diesel, Energy, EPA, Fracking, Fracking Fluid, Gas Drilling, Halliburton, Halliburton Loophole, Hydraulic Fracturing, Hydrolic Fracturing, Legislation, loopholes, Moratorium NY State, Pennsylvania, Poisons, Produced Water, quarantine, Safe Water Drinking Act, spilled fracturing fluid, Sullivan County, Toxicity, Volatile Organic Compounds
Tagged Delaware River Basin, energy, EPA, Fracking, Gas Drilling, Gasland the movie, legislation, Marcellus Shale, natural gas, Sullivan County, toxic spills, toxicity
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NYT Editorial Laments Fracking in Catskills
The author, Verlyn Klinkenborg, brings that same sense of dismay westerners are feeling in the wake of a decade-long natural gas boom in Wyoming and Colorado — in places once thought so remote industrialization wouldn’t matter:
“I’ve seen all of this before in the explosion of coal bed methane development in Wyoming over the past decade. The same arguments have been advanced — energy independence — and the same alternative, a sober national approach to energy conservation, has been ignored.
“It takes a reasonably practiced eye to see the damage coal bed methane development has done. But when the infrastructure for pumping natural gas out of the Catskills has finally been put in place, there will be no mistaking its impact — no missing the gaping holes in the forest canopy, the artificial ponds full of “fracking” fluid, the industrial damage done.
“The estimates of the energy trapped below ground in the Marcellus Shale are indeed staggering. But to get that energy, we will have to give up a good share of the biological integrity of the land that lies above it. To stand in a glade in the Catskills is to realize what a deeply troubling trade-off that is.” Continue reading