NY H2O
Posted by whitneybates on October 20, 2009
Action Alert:
New York State Caves to Gas Extraction Industry
New York City Council Public Hearing
Committee on Environmental Protection
Friday, October 23, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Committee Room – City Hall
The natural gas extraction industry has left a devastating trail of water, air & soil contamination wherever they have operated – Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana and more recently in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Now it is about to happen in New York, including the Catskill-Delaware Watershed that provides drinking water to over 9 million people in the NYC area.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wants to give the green light to the gas industry to begin drilling in New York State. On September 30, 2009, the DEC released the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS). This document, as written, would lead to tens of thousands of gas wells drilled throughout New York. (Reuters: NY state weighs natgas drilling in Marcellus shale, October 1, 2009):
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Be Heard, NYC!
To voice your concerns, please come to the October 23rd hearing at City Hall. The City Council Committee on Environmental Protection will take up the issue of the DSEIS and consider a resolution to ban gas drilling in the City’s invaluable watershed.
The evidence of the hazards continues to mount and is hitting closer to home. Drilling waste water appears to be the culprit in a fish kill that wiped aquatic life for a 35 mile stretch of Dunkard Creek along the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Drilling water may be cause of fish kill http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09287/1005306-113.stm<http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.post-gazette.com%2Fpg%2F09287%2F1005306-113.stm&i=1&d=X45VW3Y1-W251-4VZ0-YXVY-YU8U86896473&e=kpowell@bhsec.bard.edu>, October 1, 2009)
