Fracking/Gas Drilling

As the comment period on New York State’s fracking proposals come to a close, Riverkeeper announced today that it has submitted a detailed letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) highlighting six fundamental flaws in the revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (RDSGEIS) and draft high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) regulations that pose a major threat to the NYC Watershed.

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This morning, thanks to many of you, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) woke up to tens of thousands of comments on its flawed fracking proposal. Riverkeeper submitted three sets of comments, all of which conclude that New York State’s fracking proposal is too fatally flawed to move forward.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After two drafts, significant aspects of environmental impact statement still so deficient that it must be redone. New York, NY, January 10, 2012 – Catskill Mountainkeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Riverkeeper, Inc. announced today that, after extensive evaluation and technical expert review, they have concluded that the state must go back and revisit significant aspects of its revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (RDSGEIS) before fracking can move forward. Tomorrow, the groups are submitting over 500 pages of joint comments […]

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Riverkeeper has been a leader in the effort to prevent New York from fracking with our water – and we need your help to win the fight. It’s a critical moment in our campaign, as public pressure mounts on the Governor and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to rethink their flawed plans for gas drilling in the state.

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Eleven families in this tiny rural town, 30 miles south of Binghamton, NY, have received the most basic of holiday gifts: Clean drinking water.

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