Posts Tagged ‘drinking water’

Emergency Water Delivered To Fracking Victims

Riverkeeper, Mark Ruffalo, Gasland Director, Josh Fox, New Yorkers Send Emergency Water Relief to PA Fracking Victims

(NYC & Dimock, PA)— 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 a… Read More

10 Major Flaws With New York’s Fracking Plan

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… Read More

Could über-toxic fracking wastewater end up in Kingston? Possibly.

The Frackers are Coming!

And, they are intent on drilling and leaving behind a trail of destruction. In every state where high-volume fracking has been allowed, the result has been polluted water, dirty air and an industriali… Read More

Riverkeeper concerned with DEC plans for hydrofracking

Riverkeeper Responds to NY Release of Revised Fracking Environmental Impact Statement

For Immediate Release Contact: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x239; [email protected] DEC announces comment period and hearings, but fails to commit to regulations before permitting begins Ossin… Read More

Groups Call on Governor to Add Public Hearings for Upstate New Yorkers Living Atop Shale

ALBANY, NY (09/07/2011)(readMedia)– After a preliminary review of the 1,000+ pages of the revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS), the document that would guide… Read More

RvK Asks Governor Cuomo & DEC Commissioner for 180-Day Comment Period & Public Hearings on Fracking Environmental Impact Analysis and Recommendations

For immediate release: August 15, 2011 For more information: Contact Tina Posterli, [email protected], 914-478-4501 x239 60 DAYS IS NOT ENOUGH! Ossining, NY – August 15, 2011 – Riverk… Read More

Industry-Dominated DOE Panel Recognizes Dangers of Fracking

On August 11, 2011, after 90 days of deliberation, a seven-member U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) advisory panel released an interim report presenting recommendations to reduce the environmental… Read More

Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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