Syracuse Post-Standard (Feb 21) Plan to truck hydrofracking wastewater to Finger Lakes shelved, for now
Readers of Marcellus Drilling News know that we advocate for landowners, and that we support safe drilling. But, drilling companies sometimes do themselves no favors and deservedly receive suspicion and condemnation. Case in point: Chesapeake Energy, one of the [...]
WETM-18 TV (Feb 15) Gas Drilling Prompts More Water Quality Monitoring
Due to concerns over drilling in the Marcellus and discharge of wastewater from drilling operations into area waterways that ultimately find their way to Susquehanna River, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission has placed monitoring devices in the Twin Tiers area of New [...]
Middletown Times Herald-Record (Oct 29):
300 folks pack Sullivan fracking forum
The first scheduled meeting for public comments on the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) held by the New York DEC happened yesterday in Sullivan County, NY. According to the Middletown Times Herald-Record:
Most of the speakers in the standing-room-only, mostly anti-drilling crowd of more [...]
New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (Oct 13):
Press Release: DEC Schedules Public Hearings on Marcellus Shale Drilling Draft SGEIS
Landowners will want to attend the public hearings being held by the New York DEC on the draft regulations for drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The regulations are called the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS). Why [...]
Corning Leader (Oct 7):
Gas drilling an important opportunity
Well, what do you know? A positive editorial from a news outlet (for a change). This one from the Corning Leader says in part:
[S]ometime next spring or summer we’ll see the beginning of what could be a drilling bonanza in the Southern Tier. Hundreds of wells have [...]
It seems anti-drilling groups, although small in numbers, are popping up like dandelions in the spring. The latest is the Steuben County League of Women Voters, a supposedly non-partisan group (but that’s a lie, LWV is an extremely partisan group). WENY-TV has video from a recent meeting held by the League. The meeting started with [...]
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