NWR: Marcellus Shale drilling comments

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MarkS

Mark Svereika
I realize this is hardly a topic that should be posted on an internet wine board, but also realize there are quite a few New Yorkers here too, that may wish to comment before the end of the month on this important subject:

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Marcellus shale drilling is a big issue here in central Pennsylvania. I live downstream from the shale beds (they end just north of here), and Rendell just laid off a lot of Department of Environmental Protection workers at a time when gas extraction is gearing up. The hydraulic extraction process used to get gas out of the shale produces large quantities of water contaminated with toxic substances. The contaminated water is supposed to be contained and cleaned up before it is released, but already there are reports of contaminated wells in drilling areas. The state says that the DEP cuts won't affect oversight of the gas extraction efforts, but I have a hard time believing that given the scale of those cuts. I'll just have to drink more wine and less water.

As I hear it, there is concern in New York about the effects of gas extraction on the New York City water supply. Though New York seems to have handled the whole Marcellus shale thing in a more organized way than PA did...
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gee, I thought I posted to this thread earlier.
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I thought you did, too, which is why I posted a response. Let me know if I mistook the intent of your earlier, missing post.
 
Steve, your answer is splendid. I am curious about the lost message.

Maybe the Politburo knows?

Maybe whats-his-fuck from Robin Garr's board is on the Politburo now?

Maybe I should redact that last sentence?
 
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Whole rivers disappear into the Karst around here. Perhaps the same happens to lost threads? I'll search the sinkholes tomorrow.
 
We can thank Cheney for making hydraulic fracturing exempt from the clean water act when he and his buddies wrote the 2005 energy bill. That alone is probably the main reason Chesapeak and the others are able to drill using this process. It is guaranteed that they will destroy the water table everywhere they go. All my neighbors have signed leases or are planning on signing once the bonus money gets high enough. If nothing else it is very short sighted. In the long run the clean water will be far more valuable than the gas.
 
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