New York horizontal drilling and fracking COULD BE BANNED - Stories from the NY DEC Hearings

In case you were not aware, all marcellus shale gas drilling in New York State has been on hold for over a year now. This came about because the City of New York decided that hydro-fracking anywhere in NY state would poison THEIR watershed (it started out as the watershed and is now the entire state).

All kinds of extreme "environmental" groups in NY city got together and held campaigns in every borough over the past year to "raise awareness" (in other words, spread bad information and turn everyone against) natural gas drilling in NY state.

The NY Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) took a long time to investigate and prepare an environmental report about drilling, which is known as the SGEIS. This report came out and then the DEC scheduled public hearings in various places around NY state to get public comment about the report, and to see what people thought about natural gas drilling.

I attended and spoke at the November 10th hearing in NYC at Stuyvesant High School. I was one of only 6 or 7 people speaking FOR drilling in an audience of over a thousand. The rest of the auditorium was packed with the most extreme crazies I have ever seen. Read a few news stories about the event and you will get the picture.

I then attended the November 12th DEC hearing in Chenango Bridge NY and stayed long enough to hear multiple speakers. I was not able to devote the time to speak at that hearing but several other NY landowners and friends of mine did speak.

The (supposed) final DEC hearing for NY took place in Corning the other night. It was a disaster for NY landowners who support safe drilling. The NIMBY and enviro-crazies have made fracking into a potential disaster and gotten the regular people so afraid of it that there may be no turning back.

This is a very important - in fact the MOST important - subject for anyone who wants to see drilling in NY state. IF NYC and the CRAZIES GET THEIR WAY DRILLING COULD BE BANNED IN NY.

I certainly hope I am wrong and the NY DEC can get the draft through so drilling can happen. BUT, things are not looking good right now. Go to the news section of Google and put in "NY DEC hearing" and read about the insane activities going on to prevent NY landowners from leasing and drilling.

If there is interest I can give specifics about what happened during the meetings, and I may do that just so people realize how bad the situation is right now.

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Comment by Tom Copley on November 24, 2009 at 5:58am
It's very clear that the industry needs to undertake an extraordinary educational effort right now to bring the public up to speed on the real, or imagined dangers such as they are, of Marcellus shale drilling before this turns into the H1N1 of PR disasters. It's not merely a matter of getting some positive "vibes" going for shale drilling, but really communicating an understanding of the process in order to effectively address these kinds of environmental concerns. --Tom
Comment by Uncle Buck on November 24, 2009 at 5:54am
I had a conversation with a gentleman from Dominion a few years ago and he told me that almost every project they plan now has money set aside for the professional environmental extortionists. Almost everyone agrees that we need to be stewards for the environment, but many of these groups magically go away after they receive their pay off. They are just about the money.

This same gentleman said that Dominion has learned to ask local questions to quickly weed out the "rent-a-mob" folks.

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