http://www.manhattanstyle.com/news/ny-bans-gas-drilling-in-watersheds/ Celebrity News, Fashion, Music, Nightlife, City Guide and Much more! Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.manhattanstyle.com/news/ny-bans-gas-drilling-in-watersheds/#comment-3021 MGG Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:35:41 +0000 http://www.manhattanstyle.com/?p=4239#comment-3021 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. 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.

]]> http://www.manhattanstyle.com/news/ny-bans-gas-drilling-in-watersheds/#comment-2889 Larry Boutis Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:34:23 +0000 http://www.manhattanstyle.com/?p=4239#comment-2889 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! 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!

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