NY bans Gas Drilling in Watersheds
By: Justin McGuire | Posted on: April 25th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Read 1,135 Times
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Loading ...The Department of Environmental Conservation is going to toughen the rules of natural gas drilling in watersheds with concerns about removal techniques that make it possible for the gas to be spouted beneficially. To prevent the drilling on natural gas in the Syracuse watersheds and in New York City, new rules were announced this Friday. The major reason behind all these regulations is that the natural gas drilling had bad impact on the water supply of New York. In the current years, the city has been very watchful to shield the quality of water in the watersheds in the western as well as northern Catskills.
The Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, Pete Grannis stated that there must be an extra evaluation process to ensure the continuous use of unfiltered water supply which might result in related authoritarian and control on drilling. He also said that the watersheds will be removed from the regulations of natural gas drilling and they would be built up for other divisions of Marcellus Shale in the southern region of New York.
The Councilman of D-Queens, James Gennaro said that he doesn’t feel that anybody is going to drill there when such healthier opportunities exist somewhere else in the state.” According to Mayor Bloomberg drilling will not be allowed in the watersheds of the city.
The companies that apply for the permits of drilling would have to meet the criteria implied out in a generic environmental impact. The statement of generic impact contains a number of limitations for the areas of susceptible watersheds.
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Someone at your end apparently did not read the NY Department of Environmental Protection’s report carefully. The report does NOT ban drilling in the New York City Watershed, as your title suggests. What it DOES state is that different, well by well, rules will apply. New Yorkers are far from safe. Fracking for gas is a very nasty and dangerous business. If it was so safe, the gas companies would not mind being covered by the clean water, safe drinking water, and other federal acts they are now exempt from. To say, as gas companies are wont to, that fracking itself is not the problem but that drilling is, is like saying that it’s not the bullet that kills you that’s the problem, it’s only the problem of the gun maker!
New Yorkers- DEC HAS NOT Banned gas drilling in the watershed, they have made it more difficult in that each and every well must have it’s own environmental study. This makes it burdensome for energy companies, but it does not ban the drilling. In order to really protect the watershed we need an all out BAN.