Industrywide Issues

Both sides of the drilling debate in New York are still coming to grips with both the fact, and the way, the state Dept. of Environment Conservation (DEC) filed for a 90-day extension to the fracking rulemaking process—keeping the possibility of fracking alive in New York.

Anti-drillers, never at a loss for things to complain about, mostly complain the DEC’s revised proposed rules don’t indicate where the rules have changed from previous versions (i.e. redline), making them flip back and forth between previous versions and the new version (perhaps they have a case for carpel tunnel syndrome?)…

Read More “The “Compendium of its Meaning” for NY Fracking”

Last week when the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) filed for a 90-day extension to the rulemaking process for new fracking rules, the DEC issued a press statement to some media outlets (but still has not posted it on their website). A Gannett reporter provides us with the four paragraph statement, which contains several curious comments.

The following statement was made last week by DEC spokesperson Emily DeSantis:

Read More “NY DEC: We’ll Have our Cake and Eat it Too”

Following the release of a revised set of “tweaked” drilling rules last week by the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), both sides of the drilling debate had  observations about the revised rules. In general, some of the language was tightened, tweaked or expanded. In some cases rules were made more strict (on setbacks, for example). What do pro- and anti-drillers think of the DEC’s 90-day rule extension and the documents released as part of it?

Read More “Pro-, Anti-Drillers Comment on NY DEC Revised Fracking Rules”