Safeguard Drinking Water - Latest Developments

Dimock, PA residents, whose wells were contaminated by Cabot Oil & Gas’s fracking operations, will receive some relief today when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delivers clean water to four of the eleven families that have been victims of irresponsible fracking.

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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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Riverkeeper, the Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership, more than five municipalities, the Ulster County planner, and other partner stakeholders have submitted comments and recommendations to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) responding to DEC’s and New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) proposed Interim Ashokan Release Protocol to guide releases from the Ashokan Reservoir to the lower Esopus Creek.

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Last week, I joined dozens of other grassroots activists on a relief mission to a small town called Dimock, Pa., where a dozen families on Carter Road no longer have access to safe water for drinking, bathing and other household needs.

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Riverkeeper was proud to stand alongside our fellow advocates and concerned citizens in delivering much needed water to fracking victims in Dimock, Pennsylvania.

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It wasn’t a flood or natural disaster that left more than a dozen families in Dimock, PA without clean drinking water. The disaster in Dimock was caused by the Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation’s use of the hazardous gas drilling method known as fracking.

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The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is responsible for fully evaluating fracking’s potential impacts to public health and the environment, but its draft environmental impact statement and proposed regulations do not protect New Yorker’s environment, health, and drinking water.

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Thanks to all of your great efforts, the state of Delaware announced yesterday that it will vote “no” to DRBC’s proposed gas drilling regulations, which would allow fracking to go forward in the Delaware River Basin. As a result of Delaware’s commitment, DRBC has postponed the vote and set no new vote date!

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The fracking threat is imminent. Albany could permit companies to drill for natural gas using high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New York State starting as early as 2012—and without adequate protections for drinking water.

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