link to complete article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/opinion/17sat1.html?_r=1
New York State’s environmental regulators have proposed rules to govern drilling in the Marcellus Shale — a subterranean layer of rock curving northward from West Virginia through Ohio and Pennsylvania to New York’s southern tier. The shale contains enormous deposits of natural gas that could add to the region’s energy supplies and lift New York’s upstate economy. If done carefully — and in carefully selected places — drilling should cause minimal environmental harm...
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link to complete article here: http://rochestercitynewspaper.com/news/blog/2009/10/SHALE-What-about-the-water/
There's a good reason why so many environmental groups and even politicians - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, for example - want the DEC to extend the comment period for the DEC's new shale gas-drilling regulations: it's a very complicated topic....
Safe drilling, or risky business?
First published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
If a company asked you for permission to drill for natural gas by pumping chemicals into the ground near your well, you would probably ask, "What will you do if you contaminate my water?"
If that company answered "Nothing," you would probably send it packing...
Cheryl Miller
One evening last November, my husband and I were driving to meet my dad for dinner when we passed a dead animal on the side of the road. It was dusk, and we were traveling at 55 miles per hour. I gave the dark lump only a cursory glance, just long enough to affirm by shape that it was not somebody’s beloved cat or dog....
A friend of mine is running for a seat on the town council, and the other day she and I sat on the porch of the local coffee shop talking about the village she lives in all year round and I call home in the summer and early fall. The town is Andes, N.Y. It is on Route 28, roughly halfway between Woodstock and Cooperstown, about three hours and change from the city. And it flourishes against all odds. I’m trying to figure out why....
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HIGHMOUNT — Supporters of the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center marked the second anniversary of an agreement in principle with a resort developer, saying the state is using the proposal to delay the release of a Unit Management Plan for the ski center....
Friday, September 18th 2009, 4:00 AM
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1,200 acres in limbo at resort site
Thursday, September 17, 2009
By JAY BRAMAN JR.
Correspondent
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are concerned that two years after the state announced an agreement to allow the Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park to be built, some 1,200 acres of environmentally sensitive land in the town of Shandaken has yet to be protected, as promised in the deal....
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