One of the major problems ( selected from a host of them) with drilling for natural gas via fracking in the Marcellus Shale is the huge amounts of water that are returned to the surface from the millions of gallons pumped in to break the gas containing rocks. The water is not only filled with the unknown cocktail of chemicals and other substances that are used to fracture the rocks, the returning water picks up all kinds of stuff on its way back to the surface and flows out of the well with a warm and homey glow ..... if your home is in the suburbs of hell, since the water is now contaminated with unsafe levels of radioactive materials. ( And please let us not forget all the water that doesn't make it back to the surface; water that seeps and seeks its way through major aquifers, polluting home drinking water wells. ) The recent articles in the NY Times series Drilling Down are focusing on the returning water and its proper and most improper disposal. It is being dumped into streams that find their way to rivers and in some cases, directly into the rivers themselves. These are rivers that supply drinking water to millions of people.
Showing posts with label New York Drinking Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York Drinking Water. Show all posts
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Thursday, May 20, 2010
MARCELLUS SHALE GAS DRLLING EVENT
This press notice is being posted as an FYI for those interested in events related to Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling.
MARCELLUS SHALE GAS DRILLING EVENT
Coverage Requested:
of what might prove to be a contentious meeting of Cochecton (Sullivan County ) Planning Board which is proposing to change local zoning to permit Marcellus Shale gas drilling in 90% of town plus allow for building of man camps for gas workers.
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Local group, Keep Cochecton Green, is urging townspeople on both sides of the drilling controversy to attend meeting to question this change.
Thursday, May 27, 7PM
Cochecton Town Hall (845 932 8360)
CR 16, Lake Huntington, New York
Contact: Grace van Hulsteyn
845 932-8910
212 663 3457
gracewildhack@gmail.com
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Text of group's mailing to Cochecton residents:
Keep Cochecton Green
P.O. Box 253
Cochecton, New York 12726
Did you know that the town of Cochecton is in the process of changing its zoning plan to expressly allow horizontal hydrofracture drilling for natural gas in 90% of the town? No other town in our area has taken such a radical step, which we believe could overwhelm the community, just as Dimock, Pennsylvania has been overwhelmed.
However you feel about gas drilling, ATTEND THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING on May 27, 7:00 p.m. at the Town Hall. Learn the facts. Express your views. http://www.kcr@cochection.org
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MARCELLUS SHALE GAS DRILLING EVENT
Coverage Requested:
of what might prove to be a contentious meeting of Cochecton (Sullivan County ) Planning Board which is proposing to change local zoning to permit Marcellus Shale gas drilling in 90% of town plus allow for building of man camps for gas workers.
w
Local group, Keep Cochecton Green, is urging townspeople on both sides of the drilling controversy to attend meeting to question this change.
Thursday, May 27, 7PM
Cochecton Town Hall (845 932 8360)
CR 16, Lake Huntington, New York
Contact: Grace van Hulsteyn
845 932-8910
212 663 3457
gracewildhack@gmail.com
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Text of group's mailing to Cochecton residents:
Keep Cochecton Green
P.O. Box 253
Cochecton, New York 12726
Did you know that the town of Cochecton is in the process of changing its zoning plan to expressly allow horizontal hydrofracture drilling for natural gas in 90% of the town? No other town in our area has taken such a radical step, which we believe could overwhelm the community, just as Dimock, Pennsylvania has been overwhelmed.
However you feel about gas drilling, ATTEND THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING on May 27, 7:00 p.m. at the Town Hall. Learn the facts. Express your views. http://www.kcr@cochection.org
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Marcellus Shale Letter
The following letter was sent by a friend to the President of Chesapeake Energy, one of the major players in the Marcellus Shale natural gas sludge rush. It appears on the same day that New York Mayor Bloomberg issued a report calling the potential damage to the New York's water supply a disaster waiting to happen. But not only is New York threatened, but as the letter points out, the beautiful Delaware River, which supplies Philadelphia with most of its drinking water, also lies in the path of polluted run-off from the method of drilling used to extract gas from far beneath the surface.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Letter To Chesapeake Energy Re: Marcellus Shale
Welcome to Gracenomics. I'm opening with the theme of drilling in New York's and Pennsylvania's gas-rich Marcellus Shale. Recently, one of the major industry players, Chesapeake Energy, announced that it would not be doing any development within the New York City watershed, although it is the sole gas leaseholder of properties there. The announcement was taken by many city dwellers as an admission that hydrofracking poses a danger to drinking water. Today, Mayor Bloomberg joined the rising throngs opposing its use. I give grudging credit to Chesapeake for helping to bring that about.
Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia and other mayors should be urged to oppose fracking wherever their communities' water supply may be at risk. Here's what I wrote to Chesapeake's CEO last week:
"December 11, 2009
Mr. Aubrey McClendon
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Post Office Box 18496
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73154-0496
Dear Mr. McClendon:
As a part-time resident of New York City, I was very happy to learn that Chesapeake Energy voluntarily decided not to drill for natural gas in the City’s watershed, owing to concerns about water contamination. As you know, you are several steps greener than our Department of Environmental Conservation in that regard.
I am also a part-time resident of Sullivan County, New York, below the watershed but less than two miles, as the bird flies and the water flows, from the Upper Delaware River. Next door to me is a hunting parcel that has been leased to Chesapeake-Appalachia LLC, which I take to be a wholly-owned Chesapeake Energy subsidiary. Most of the groundwater on the particular parcel flows across and under mine, as it does those of my lateral neighbors, and, during seasonal flooding, it gushes without any filtration into the Delaware. I have personally tracked it doing so. I surmise that the same can be said of the water on and under virtually any property in this hilly, wet region that is within a few short miles of the river on either side.
I am concerned, of course, for my own water well in the event that natural gas drilling takes place next to me. But the river itself provides drinking water, I’m told, to some 18 million people, even more than the New York watershed does. Philadelphia is just now waking up to the possibility of contamination from gas drilling. You would win millions more fans if you would make the same pledge to them that you made to Gotham.
The Delaware, of course, is vital not only as a drinking water source but as a federally designated Wild and Scenic River and a recreational resource. I would like to propose a protection zone from drilling of three to five miles from the river’s edge, and hope you would find such a gesture appealing and worthwhile. Wishing you success in your commercial ventures and your pro-environment initiatives, I am
Sincerely yours,"
Posted by Grace at 10:59 AM
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Letter To Chesapeake Energy Re: Marcellus Shale
Welcome to Gracenomics. I'm opening with the theme of drilling in New York's and Pennsylvania's gas-rich Marcellus Shale. Recently, one of the major industry players, Chesapeake Energy, announced that it would not be doing any development within the New York City watershed, although it is the sole gas leaseholder of properties there. The announcement was taken by many city dwellers as an admission that hydrofracking poses a danger to drinking water. Today, Mayor Bloomberg joined the rising throngs opposing its use. I give grudging credit to Chesapeake for helping to bring that about.
Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia and other mayors should be urged to oppose fracking wherever their communities' water supply may be at risk. Here's what I wrote to Chesapeake's CEO last week:
"December 11, 2009
Mr. Aubrey McClendon
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Post Office Box 18496
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73154-0496
Dear Mr. McClendon:
As a part-time resident of New York City, I was very happy to learn that Chesapeake Energy voluntarily decided not to drill for natural gas in the City’s watershed, owing to concerns about water contamination. As you know, you are several steps greener than our Department of Environmental Conservation in that regard.
I am also a part-time resident of Sullivan County, New York, below the watershed but less than two miles, as the bird flies and the water flows, from the Upper Delaware River. Next door to me is a hunting parcel that has been leased to Chesapeake-Appalachia LLC, which I take to be a wholly-owned Chesapeake Energy subsidiary. Most of the groundwater on the particular parcel flows across and under mine, as it does those of my lateral neighbors, and, during seasonal flooding, it gushes without any filtration into the Delaware. I have personally tracked it doing so. I surmise that the same can be said of the water on and under virtually any property in this hilly, wet region that is within a few short miles of the river on either side.
I am concerned, of course, for my own water well in the event that natural gas drilling takes place next to me. But the river itself provides drinking water, I’m told, to some 18 million people, even more than the New York watershed does. Philadelphia is just now waking up to the possibility of contamination from gas drilling. You would win millions more fans if you would make the same pledge to them that you made to Gotham.
The Delaware, of course, is vital not only as a drinking water source but as a federally designated Wild and Scenic River and a recreational resource. I would like to propose a protection zone from drilling of three to five miles from the river’s edge, and hope you would find such a gesture appealing and worthwhile. Wishing you success in your commercial ventures and your pro-environment initiatives, I am
Sincerely yours,"
Posted by Grace at 10:59 AM
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