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From DEC’s lips to your ear: “We have no clue what drillers are up to.”
All last summer, while groups and individuals were raising questions about impacts of the new gas drilling, DEC kept telling everyone who would listen that they had everything under control. But did they? *After* ProPublica and WNYC started asking pointed questions that DEC couldn’t answer, DEC wrote the following letter to oil & gas operators […]
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Lebanon, NY gas well explodes, injuring two workers
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/lebanon_gas_well_explodes_inju.html by Aaron Gifford Thursday March 19, 2009, 3:39 PM LEBANON, NY – Two people were injured Wednesday after a natural gas well explosion on Soule Road in the town of Lebanon, the second such incident in the area this year, authorities said. The well, owned by Nornew Inc., was reported ablaze at around 5 […]
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Newburgh Advocate coverage of 12/4 Loch Sheldrake draft scope hearing
The people of New York State have spoken: http://www.newburghadvocate.com/2008/12/05/i-give-the-government-an-f-minus/ Gas drilling: I give the government an F minus Judge Helene G. Goldberger (above) presided over the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Gas Well Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Public Hearing Thursday evening, December 4. Elected officials, representatives from gas companies and gas industry […]
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Scope comments – presented at 12/4 hearing, submitted by e-mail
Bureau of Oil & Gas RegulationNYSDEC Division of Mineral Resources625 BroadwayAlbany, NY 12233-6500 Subject: Scope Comment To Whom It May Concern: I am writing to submit comments to the Draft Scope for Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (DSGEIS) on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program. I would like to make it clear […]
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David J. Cyr 12/02/08 DEC Public Hearing Comment
I am the State Committee Member for the Green Party of New York State, representing Delaware County; and a member of Chenango, Delaware, Otsego Gas (CDOG). [Extemporaneously: Is the DEC staff still here? Are you awake to hear this? The People are speaking, and it’s clear that Halliburton’s process is not drilling they can believe […]