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... water supplies and note the state ban on gas drilling in the New York City and Syracuse watersheds demonstrates that environmental regulators consider it risky as well. Fracking stimulates shale gas wells ...
Thursday, 01 December 2011
... struggle, and young people leave. Davis said drilling needs to be allowed closer to the reservoirs that supply New York City with its drinking water, to make up for opportunities lost to local residents ...
Friday, 18 November 2011
... New York is moving slowly but fatefully toward allowing a kind of natural gas drilling that he says will spoil the environment. "We're simply not equipped to handle the massive amount of potential contamination" ...
Monday, 14 November 2011
... River and its tributaries. Once the moratorium is lifted and drilling begins -- perhaps early next year -- the gas industry would be limited to 300 wells until the DRBC votes to allow additional drilling. ...
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
ALBANY -- State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens raised doubts Tuesday that the state will be ready to issue permits next year for the controversial natural gas drilling technique known ...
Friday, 28 October 2011
TOWANDA, Pa. -- In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed ...
Friday, 28 October 2011
PITTSBURGH -- The largest Marcellus Shale industry group in Pennsylvania says its members will voluntarily disclose chemicals used in each natural gas well as of Jan. 1. The Marcellus Shale Coalition says ...
Saturday, 22 October 2011
... so few meetings to address them," Hauter said. Hauter said her group also noticed an official of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York, which represents the drilling industry that wants the ...
Friday, 21 October 2011
ALBANY -- A postponed meeting of a state advisory panel on natural gas hydraulic fracturing had one member saying Friday that it showed the state was rushing an approval process for drilling to start next ...
Sunday, 16 October 2011
... drilling through hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. Hydrofracking opponents packed the hearing before the state Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee, where Martens was among more than 70 ...
Friday, 07 October 2011
... the wells that prompted City Council to pass a drilling ban this summer. It was later shot down in court. The wells have been targeted for protests by environmental groups and residents. Some worry about ...
Sunday, 02 October 2011
... has instead focused on rushing along a process to allow dirty natural gas drilling," said Brian Smith, program director of the 80,000-member Citizens Campaign for the Environment. "While candidate Cuomo ...
Thursday, 29 September 2011
... Trucks bring in million of gallons of water as well as heavy equipment to each well. Used drilling water, which can contain benzene and other volatile aromatic hydrocarbons, surfactants and organic biocides, ...
Friday, 16 September 2011
... of DEC's proposed rules unveiled in June to open the sprawling, gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation to drilling. The draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement found the state would face "significant ...
Friday, 09 September 2011
... groups that oppose the drilling technique coordinated a social media campaign on Tuesday urging supporters to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo to order the comment period be extended to 180 days. Hydrofracking relies ...
Wednesday, 07 September 2011
KATONAH -- Opponents of natural gas hydrofracking turned out at a state hearing Tuesday on the issue, including the director of the documentary "Gasland." But drilling industry representatives remained ...
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A U.S. Department of Energy panel wants energy companies to reveal all the chemicals they use in a drilling technique that has allowed them to reach huge and previously inaccessible deposits ...
Thursday, 11 August 2011
... Inc. and other groups. Rob Moore, executive director of Environmental Advocates and a member of the DEC advisory panel, said it would be difficult for DiNapoli to offer specific figures for well drilling ...
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Mayor Lucille Blum and the other elected leaders of New Martinsville thought they were doing a good thing when they banned Marcellus shale gas drilling in their small town on the Ohio ...
Tuesday, 09 August 2011
ALBANY -- The makers of petrochemicals used in natural gas hydrofracking back proposed new gas drilling rules offered this month by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Members of the American ...
Thursday, 21 July 2011
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