Thank you for the automated response.

Thank you for the automated response. While I realize that automation and cautioning those who write emails that a personal response is not always possible, I must continue to email you as I am very fearful that business and most particularly energy companies will, with their financial influence, easily be able to trump the interests of individuals in the minds of administrators and legislatures. I sincerely hope that is not the case. In spite of any Supreme Court votes to the contrary, I do not find any protections for business in my reading of our Constitution that are equal to those protections mandated for individual human beings.

I have no personal financial power. I have only my one vote. But I cannot ever again vote for any individual or any regime that fails to do his/her/it's utmost to protect our fragile environment. And while It is true that I only have one vote, I know there are many more individuals like myself, and our numbers continue to grow.

We depend on clean well water and on clean ponds in our area. It is important to me that we keep these as pristine as possible. Once these have been polluted by chemicals, they will stay so for a very long time-longer than you or I will be alive and probably longer than our grandchildren will be alive. We cannot afford to continue destroying the precious natural resources we have left . Clean water is more basic and more essential to the survival of each man and woman and child in our area and on the planet than the energy that comes from any particular fuel.

For this and other reasons, I ask again that you support:
Expanding the scope of the draft SGEIS to include additional concerns, notably how to manage gas drilling waste-water;

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

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

Requiring individual EIS reviews for horizontal hydro-fracturing permits, "GA effluent limitations" for hydro-fracturing, deep well injection and waste-water treatment as well as updating DEC's 1992 GEIS.

Thank you.

Jeanette G.