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Contact Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
PHONE 311 (or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC)
FAX (212) 312-0700
E-MAIL: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html

If you send a letter to the mayor please send a copy to us so that we may maintain a record of letters sent and include your letter below.

04/22/2011

Dear Governor Cuomo, EPA REgional Administrator Enck, DEC Commissioner Martens, and Mayor Bloomberg,

I am deeply concerned with the potentially catastrophic environmental damage that horizontal hydrofracturing could cause in New York State.

I therefore urge you to:

Provide at least 30 days public comment ASAP to identify additional issues that must be included in the draft SGEIS scope;

Expand the scope of the draft SGEIS to include additional concerns, notably how to manage gas drilling wastewater;

Establish Citizens and Technical Advisory Committees to help DEC revise the draft SGEIS;

Require individual EIS reviews for horizontal hydrofracturing permits, "GA effluent limitations" for hydrofracturing, deep well injection and wastewater treatment as well as updating DEC's 1992 GEIS.

Sincerely,

Paul Z
04/13/2011

Dear Mayor Bloomberg / Governor Cuomo / Ms Enck / Commissioner Martens --

I am so appalled that as a citizen I even need to ask the government to protect me from such an obvious toxic hazard to our drinking water and health as hydrofracturing. As s citizen of the state, I have always been proud of our impeccable water sources and the way they are protected. The federal government has completely sold us out to Dick Cheney's interests. Please make sure that the state acts to protect us.

Demand that the state:

Expand the scope of the draft SGEIS to include additional concerns, notably how to manage gas drilling wastewater, which has been shown to be radioactive;

establish Citizens and Technical Advisory Committees to help DEC revise the draft SGEIS;

provide at least 30 days public comment to identify additional issues to be included in the draft SGEIS scope;

require individual EIS reviews for horizontal hydrofracturing permits, "GA effluent limitations" for hydrofracturing, deep well injection and wastewater treatment as well as updating DEC's 1992 GEIS. I also urge you to support investment in truly sustainable forms of energy, such as solar and wind.

Thanks very much for listening, and please make sure our drinking water remains safe.

Yours sincerely, Rachel W
04/13/2011

I am writing you today to firmly support the following initiatives on natural gas drilling in New York state. I believe this is ultimately a moral issue in that it risks large scale pollution and destruction of our water, which cannot be reclaimed or purified. It is literally our future. Also destroyed would be our tourism, our wineries and sustainable farming operations. Once people understand the ramifications of high volume slickwater hydrofracking, they uniformly support a ban on the practice.

PLEASE:

Expand the scope of the draft SGEIS to include additional concerns, notably how to manage gas drilling wastewater

Establish Citizens and Technical Advisory Committees to help DEC revise the draft SGEIS

Provide at least 30 days public comment to identify additional issues to be included in the draft SGEIS scope;

Requre individual EIS reviews for horizontal hydrofracturing permits

cc: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Governor Andrew Cuomo

Please see Ian Urbina's three front-page stories in The New York Times and check out the accompanying graphics/document applications at: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/series/drilling_down/index.html

Thank you for addressing these needs.

Sincerely,
Gay G