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20 comments on Plan for Hydro-Fracture Drilling for Unconventional Natural Gas in Upstate New York
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I'd say that the main story here is that there are a lot of unanswered question and the industry has to prove that this will not contaminate drinking water. New Yorkers are justified in wanting a lot of answers on all these questions before something is rushed through the legislature. Aside from the water contamination issues, there are issues of disposal. As some of the comments above point out, people have questions and they want answers that explain both the potential benefits and risks.
All of the information is out there for a journalist who was actually interested in getting the story right. These people were interested in stopping the drilling,not getting the story right. With one phone call, anyone could learn that they don't discharge the frac water on to the surface. They send it off somewhere where it can be cleaned up and injected or resused.
All that went through the legislature was the spacing regulations to drill horizontally in the Marcellus. There was nothing about the water in that bill. The DEC does not allow drilling or frac fluids to be discharged on the surface so there is no need for new legislation.
This article will bog down the permit application process and make life harder for everyone involved but will change nothing about how these wells are drilled and completed or where the water comes from and where it goes afterward.
It really is a terrible waste of time and distracts from real issues like climate change and peak oil.