Last week, Patriot Water LLC withdrew their application to convert a former car dealership on the edge of the Village of Owego, NY (in Tioga County) into a wastewater treatment plant to deal specifically with wastewater from Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania, and from New York, when drilling finally begins there. Each well drilled in [...]
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (Feb 17) Owego wastewater plan hits snag Patriot Water Treatment wants to build a wastewater treatment plant in Owego, NY. The plant would take in fracking water from drilling operations in the region, treat it, and return the water back to drillers to be used again. According to Andrew Blocksom, of [...]
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (Oct 28): Drilling processor targets Owego site From the Oct. 28th Press & Sun-Bulletin: A plant to treat waste from the Marcellus Shale is on the drawing board in the Town of Owego. Patriot Water Treatment pitched its plans to convert a former car dealership at 936 Taylor Road to a [...]
WBNG-TV Action News (Oct 18): Drilling Effects for Tioga County A short segment on Channel 12 “Action News” starts out like this: An environmentalist weighs the pro’s and con’s of tapping into the Marcellus Shale in the Southern Tier. Chair of the Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition, Chris Burger, spoke at the Tioga Trails café in [...]
A recent article published in The Oneonta Star covered two gas drilling “forums” that were conducted in Otsego County by the anti-drilling group Sustainable Otsego. The article is a lazy, biased view of a complicated issue–but there’s no surprise there. The mainstream media is not an impartial, investigative source of information as it once was. [...]
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