Marcellus Shale Information
Citizen Alert/Urgent Action Requested
Greetings,
I write to request your immediate assistance in holding members of the High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Panel accountable for safeguarding New York from horizontal hydrofracturing hazards. That panel includes elected officials, environmentalists as well as gas industry and business representatives.
See Advisory Panel Members and Contact Info: http://www.toxicstargeting.com/node/30652
Hydrofracking in 2012?
President of Toxics Targeting Walter Hang believes Hydrofracking won't make its way to New York in 2012.
Strictly Business: Is this the year for fracking in N.Y.?
I'm beginning to wonder if high-volume hydraulic fracturing, the method of extracting natural gas from tight shale formations underground, will ever be allowed in New York.
I don't say that because opponents have successfully lobbied against it. I say that after looking at the enormity of the task now facing New York's Department of Environmental Conservation.
Senate Hearing: January 12, 2011, Canandaigua, NY
Senate Standing Committee on Energy Conservation Public Hearing to examine waste water produced by hydraulic fracturing, sponsored by New York State Senators Mark Grisanti and Patrick Gallivan. January 12, 2011, Canandaigua, NY.
Experts: Gas drilling won't start in N.Y. in 2012
JOHNSON CITY -- Area experts on natural gas drilling agree: New York's swath of the Marcellus Shale isn't likely to be tapped in 2012.
Panelists on both sides of the issue discussed the future of natural gas drilling in the Southern Tier at a roundtable discussion hosted by Press & Sun-Bulletin on Thursday at the Gannett Central N.Y. Production Facility.
2012 is looking mighty good so far/Please help with the de facto moratorium pledge
Greetings,
I am exceedingly pleased to let you know that there is a growing sense that New York's de facto moratorium on horizontal hydrofracturing in Marcellus Shale will likely continue throughout 2012. That is thrilling news, though I hesitate to mention it to avoid jinxing our shut-out. Keep pushing. No let-up.
Here are some hot-off-the-press newsclips as well as a terrifically informative video of a presentation last Thursday involving two key pro-fracking advocates and others. Thank you Press & Sun-Bulletin. Listen very carefully at 20:45.
Wow/Powerful EPA Comments/Keep slugging
Greetings,
I write to thank everyone who has worked so hard these last two and a half grueling years to maintain New York's de facto moratorium on Marcellus Shale horizontal hydrofracturing. Your diligence and sacrifice are greatly appreciated. What you have collectively achieved is almost beyond belief. I am sure the gas industry is chagrined to feels likewise.
Even against that background of impressive political achievement, the last ten days have been noteworthy in the annals of NYS grassroots action. Wow.
EPA questions fracking study
ALBANY — Opponents of natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, said Thursday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fired a shot across the bow of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
EPA Weighs in on New York Fracking Plan - VIDEO
"For some of the regulatory programs like if you were dumping gas drilling wastewater into a local municipal treatment plant, EPA is the principal authority," said Walter Hang, President of Toxics Targeting.
And Hang says the EPA has submitted almost twice as many comments as it did for the first SGEIS draft in 2009.
"The main concerns were failure to come up with a way to deal with this incredibly toxic wastewater, failure to protect drinking water, failure to protect radiologic hazards for both the worker and environment."
EPA RD SGEIS Comments Letter to Cuomo
January 12, 2012
Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo
The State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
Dear Governor Cuomo:
Fracking foes hope for EPA support
Ithaca -- For anti-hydraulic fracturing activists like Ithaca environmentalist Walter Hang, Tuesday was D-Day.
On the last day to submit comments on the state Department of Environmental Conservation's draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, those who oppose the use of the natural gas drilling method in New York gathered at rallies in major cities across the state.
EPA to Release Comments on Fracking
Wednesday marked the deadline for public comment on the state's environmental impact statement about fracking.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is readying comments for the state.
The EPA expects to release those comments before midnight Wednesday.
The agency delivered comments on a previous draft of the impact statement back in 2009.
Fracking opponents hope the EPA echoes their concerns.