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Riverkeeper testified at the EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study hearings in Binghamton, NY. EPA held the hearings in order to receive stakeholder comments on its Science Advisory Board’s study on hydraulic fracturing and water contamination. Riverkeeper supports the agency’s “lifecycle analysis” approach to the study, which would examine not only the impacts from the actual fracturing, or stimulation, of gas wells, but also those impacts associated with all phases of hydraulic fracturing operations, from road building to water withdrawals to wastewater treatment.

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As nationwide EPA public hearings on gas drilling wrap up today in Binghamton, New York, Riverkeeper released a report that documents well over 100 cases of environmental contamination that it says EPA needs to examine as part of its current study on hydraulic fracturing, a type of gas drilling currently proposed for upstate New York.

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Fractured Communities is a follow-up to the 2009, Riverkeeper Case Studies report presented to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in an attempt to dispel myths from state regulators and gas industry executives that drilling was always safe and that reports of contamination were inaccurate.

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