A Tale of Two River Basins, Three Shared Members and No Discernible Impacts

From Energy In Depth:

According to the DRBC’s draft regulations, the Commission says that fracking “poses significant, immediate and long-term risks” to the Basin. The SRB, where more than half of all shale well development in Pennsylvania has occurred and where the SRBC has a nearly identical compact as the DRBC, would seem like the most logical place to look to determine if this is in fact a true assessment.

And yet, there’s no way the DRBC could have come to this conclusion based on what’s occurred in the SRB.

Unconventional well development took off in the SRB in 2008, and the SRBC began continuous water monitoring at 50 stations across the Basin in 2010. The most recent reportof this data, released in October 2017, found that,

“To date, the Commission’s network of monitors has not detected discernible impacts on the Basin’s water resources…”

Enough said, don’t you think?