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Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:56 am
by Brenda
Dryden residents ask town to ban hydrofracking
2:00 PM, Apr. 21, 2011
Written by
Aaron Munzer
Correspondent
DRYDEN - To the whoops and applause of more than 100 people crammed into Dryden Town Hall, town board members unanimously supported a citizen petition effort to ban hydraulic fracturing within the town's limits.
The action followed a presentation by a Dryden anti-fracking group with a petition on Wednesday night carrying 1,594 signatures.
"The signers are Dryden residents who believe that the impact of the gas extraction industry should not be allowed to affect our health, our town infrastructure, or our quiet enjoyment of life in Dryden," said Marie McRae, a member of the Dryden Resource Awareness Council, as she presented the stacks of petitions to the board. "A lot of us think this practice in our community will significantly endanger our health and well being."
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http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pb ... 1104210339
Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:08 pm
by Matt
being freaked out a little is ok... as long it is an educated freak-out.
Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:16 pm
by hobkyl
That's part of the problem with this debate. All you ever hear is the negative...which may or may not be exaggerated.
Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:27 pm
by Brenda
Ask the folks in PA who have had their wells and streams contaminated if the threat is exaggerated.
Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:02 pm
by hobkyl
Do you know those people personally or are you only reading the news?
Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:05 am
by Brenda
Nope, I don't know them personally. It's just the fiction that I read in my left-wing, liberal, hippie newspaper.
Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:17 am
by Brenda
Marcellus Shale: Gas-drilling wastewater disposal faces change
Discharges into rivers to end, Pennsylvania official says
11:18 PM, Apr. 24, 2011
Written by
David B. Caruso
Associated Press
Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator says he is confident that the natural gas industry is just weeks away from ending one of its more troubling environmental practices: the discharge of vast amounts of polluted brine into rivers used for drinking water.
Last Tuesday, the state's new Republican administration called on drillers to stop using riverside treatment plants to get rid of the millions of barrels of ultra-salty, chemically tainted wastewater that gush annually from gas wells.
As drillers have swarmed Pennsylvania's rich Marcellus Shale gas fields, the industry's use and handling of water has been a subject of intense scrutiny.
The state's request was made after some researchers presented evidence that the discharges were altering river chemistry in a way that had the potential to affect drinking water.
For years, the gas industry has bristled and resisted when its environmental practices have been criticized. But last week, it abruptly took a different tone.
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http://www.theithacajournal.com/article ... |FRONTPAGE
Re: Hydrofracking
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:32 am
by Matt
It's undeniable fact that the shale in NY state is an important aquifer and that contaminating it will ruin ground and well water for residents, eventually drain into major basins and contaminate our major rivers and lakes. Even the gas mining companies admit this. New York's greatest natural resource is water. It's best not to f--k with it. We all know it, but how far can we f--k with it until we start to ruin it long-term.
Where the controversy lies is: can fracking contamination it be contained? How long will it last? Who will pay to have it cleaned up when the mining operation is dead? How much will it cost?
So far the potential answers are:
Doesn't look like it because unseen rock is unpredictable; No one knows; mines are rarely closed properly by their former owners and usually become taxpayer responsibility; Probably more than the income benefit to the community, but unknown.
Luckily, it seems like Pennsylvania's mountains will get us closer to answers before any extraction in NY becomes temping to mining companies.