2011 Marcellus Shale News Compilation

Town of Union, NY (WBNG Binghamton) New York's DEC Commissioner visits Broome County and is met with opposition just days after draft regulations for hydrofracking are issued.

Members of NYRAD, Toxics Targeting and others stood in the road, waiting for Commissioner Joe Martens Wednesday morning as he left another media outlet.

Martens' car drove by and there was no comment.

The groups say they want the draft re-done, adding equal protection in drilling regulations.

The Auburn City Council has passed a resolution to ban the city from accepting gas drilling wastewater into their sewage treatment facility. Our Katie Gibas tells us what led council members to this decision.

AUBURN, N.Y. -- The Auburn City Council has passed a resolution that will ban the city from accepting gas drilling wastewater into their sewage treatment facility.

ITHACA –Toxics Targeting, Inc., an environmental database firm in Ithaca released government information Thursday documenting that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation authorized millions of gallons of natural gas drilling wastewater to be spread on thousands of miles of roads in New York, including in Chenango County, for dust control, winter de-icing or roadbed stabilization.

As natural gas drilling has spread across the country, energy industry representatives have sat down at kitchen tables in states like Texas, Pennsylvania and New York to offer homeowners leases that give companies the right to drill on their land.

And over the past 10 years, as natural gas has become increasingly important to the nation’s energy future, Americans have signed more than a million of these leases.