The DRBC is willing to bully shale landowners over imagined threats to water quality but it won’t touch the real pollution down river where the power is.

Monday of this week I wrote about the absurdity of the DRBC attempting to ban fracking ...when, in fact, there was evidence of real pollution in the Delaware from commercial shipping of chemicals downstream. That evidence involved a spill of up to 600,000 gallons of chemicals that went directly into the Delaware River just upstream from 558,000 New Jersey and Pennsylvanian residents who get 19.9 million gallons of drinking water out of the river. Yet, the DRBC does nothing to address that and focuses its attention on imagined risks of spills at shale gas well pads miles from the river.

One of our readers followed up by pointing out a study from 2002 showing those residents who get drinking water from the Delaware are far more likely to be impacted by a whole host of activities than fracking, yet the DRBC stays relentlessly focused on bullying shale gas landowners. Why? Because they can and they want to divert attention from pollution there by virtue signaling elsewhere.

The “Hazardous Material Transportation Study” by the State of Delaware Emergency Response Commission, sets out lots of factual data. The most important data is found in two tables, one of which details incidents on the Delaware River itself and the other of which compares risks for different modes of transportation with respect to hazardous materials. Here’s the incidents list:

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/drbc-bullying-shale-landowners-rather-addressing-real-problems/