The DRBC fracking ban is based on speculation, while it ignores sound science within its very grasp, says Inge Grafe-Kieklak, a Sullivan County landowner.

I am a landowner in New York State and a member of the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC) and the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York (JLCNY).

Let’s get back to basics and reason. In 1961, your Commission, the DRBC, was created to manage the water resources of the Delaware River Basin. One its missions was to act as a steward in pThe Commission’s water quality program was supposed to be based on sound science and balance environmental protection with economic development.

The Commission’s water quality program was supposed to be based on sound science and balance environmental protection with economic development.

Accessing sound science should have been a matter of looking to your sister River Basin Commission, the SRBC, to learn from their years of experience. Their territory, situated just over the border with the DRBC, includes some of the most concentrated gas drilling in the country (and perhaps the world.) It is a huge test laboratory that’s been open for a decade, it’s right next door and the DRBC and SRBC memberships overlap, so access to the laboratory is a given.

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