proceed with caution

Dear Ms. Enck & Commissioner Martens:

I am writing to you to urge you and the State of New York to proceed with caution in your regulation of natural gas drilling here.

We are currently waiting for the revised Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS), and it is very important that the public have enough time to review the document and to respond in public hearings around the state, particularly in places where the drilling will be most intense.

I also would like for this SGEIS to contain very strict regulation of wastewater, an area that was missing from the previous draft of it. This is a really important and health/life-threatening part of natural gas drilling, and cannot be ignored.

Thank you for your work on this issue.

Sincerely,
Katherine Halton
Danby Town Board