Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: Tristan Scremin

3/22/18 @ 8:47 AM
Fracking pollutes water. We must protect and keep our water clear for the now and future generations. Once our water sources are contaminated it is very difficult or impossible to make them pristine again. We can not afford the mistake of polluting o...↓
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Comment From: Dan Greaney

3/22/18 @ 8:39 AM
A role of government should be to protect its people, and the 15 million people who depend on the Delaware River (not to mention the wildlife it nourishes) deserve to have fracking effluent kept out of it. The history of allowing inadequately tested...↓
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Comment From: Jennifer Reznick

3/22/18 @ 8:39 AM
Ban fracking and the importatation of wastewater from fracking into the Delaware River Basin. Fracking introduces dangerous contaminants into the the water supply and is a destructive method of obtaining gas and oil. Communities which have had fracki...↓
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Comment From: janet perlman

3/22/18 @ 8:37 AM
Fracking would be detrimental to the water purity as well as the ecological balance in the delta. It is truly a bad idea. We need to think of the future not snort term gain and at the present, we are not in need of fossil fuels but are in need of p...↓
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Comment From: Corinne Constantine

3/22/18 @ 8:35 AM
STOP polluting the Deleware River
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Comment From: Nancy Hotaling

3/22/18 @ 8:34 AM
To DRBC Here in the United States we see many communities struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Recently, the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regulations banning fracking in the River...↓
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Comment From: stephen josephson

3/22/18 @ 8:34 AM
NO FRACKING PLEASE!!!!!!
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Comment From: Charles McClure

3/22/18 @ 8:33 AM
Mini wiconi. Lela waste, oyate mani.
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Comment From: GARY M YOUNG

3/22/18 @ 8:33 AM
Fracking is has a huge negative environmental & human health impact on our lands
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Comment From: Cut And Run Post Inc. (Dario Bigi)

3/22/18 @ 8:31 AM
Please watch the GasLand Documentaries. Rigorous spatial analysis of environmental impacts provide a perspective on risks based on proximity to fracking wells. These are the environmental impacts of fracking within a spatial context. There are five k...↓
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Comment From: Bob Higgins

3/22/18 @ 8:29 AM
If we don't begin to take the dwindling supply of fresh clean water seriously through conservation and environmental safeguards in a few years we may be celebrating the World Memory of Water Day.
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Comment From: Lou Ann Kilburg

3/22/18 @ 8:26 AM
Please do all you can to make sure water is supplied adequately to all global citizens. And do all you can to ban fracking and other water polluting and wasting procedures.
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Comment From: Kristen Gilkeson

3/22/18 @ 8:26 AM
PLEASE refrain from fracking in our watershed!
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Comment From: Ann de Vitry

3/22/18 @ 8:25 AM
The industry and its lobbyists continue to insist the process of fracking is safe. This is clearly far from the truth. Individuals continue to be at risk due to exposure to dangerous toxins. As reported in scientific studies, these toxins are carcino...↓
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Comment From: Michael Friedmann

3/22/18 @ 8:23 AM
Please ban fracking, have mercy on the flora and fauna - native and non native. Use environmentally friendly alternatives.
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Comment From: Benjamin Christy

3/22/18 @ 8:22 AM
I want ALL fracking banned from the Delaware River Basin.
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Comment From: stefanie rinza

3/22/18 @ 8:22 AM
Hydraulic fracturing takes permanently out of circulation millions of gallons of fresh water; the fresh water is mixed with biocides, sand, and many chemicals, pushed deep underground and emerges as radioactive, highly saline 'produced' water. This t...↓
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Comment From: Ellen Franzen

3/22/18 @ 8:18 AM
As someone who spent several years as a child in New Jersey, with summers in Cape May County, I was disturbed to read that the proposed regulations banning fracking in the Delaware River Basin will continue to allow for the exportation of water from ...↓
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Comment From: David Loeb

3/22/18 @ 8:18 AM
Dear Commissioners, I urge you to build upon the decision of the Commission not to allow the practice of hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware Basin by also banning by regulation the disposal of waste water from hydraulic fracturing operations in the ...↓
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Comment From: Reggie Melonson

3/22/18 @ 8:18 AM
Please review the Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments. Fracking is very expensive when it comes to polluted water.
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Comment From: Sharon Furlong

3/22/18 @ 8:17 AM
I believe quite strongly that drought years are not over. I believe drought will be returning as temperatures heat up in this area, as has been happening for over a decade, and precipitation patterns change. In fact, drought conditions remain for sev...↓
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Comment From: Sr. Marguerite E. Donovan, CSJ

3/22/18 @ 8:17 AM
There is no safe way to fracture the earth in order to obtain resources of oil or natural gas reserved under the surface of the Earth. Water is endangered throughout the process--too much is consumed in the process of fracking, and the residue of th...↓
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Comment From: William Brown

3/22/18 @ 8:16 AM
I strongly oppose the withdrawal of water from the Delaware River for use in hydraulic fracking. I further oppose the importation of fracking waste into the Delaware River Basin for the purpose of treatment. I would march in opposition and I will vot...↓
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Comment From: Grace Feldmann

3/22/18 @ 8:15 AM
While I applaud regulations to ban fracking in the Basin the current ones don't protect ALL communities- they continue to allow for the exportation of water from the Basin to fracking elsewhere AND the importation of wastewater into the Basin for tre...↓
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Comment From: Marsha Vander Heyden

3/22/18 @ 8:14 AM
NO FRACKING ANYWHERE !!!
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Comment From: Joan Farber

3/22/18 @ 8:12 AM
It is critical for the health and well being of both the living and future generations that hydrofracking be permanently banned.  There is significant evidence that natural gas development, and its related operations, which include all the phase...↓
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Comment From: Ana Li

3/22/18 @ 8:11 AM
I want ALL fracking banned from the Basin. I value the sacred. Water is sacred, ALL communities are sacred. ALL that is pure and good needs to be protected. Thank you.
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Comment From: Jason Kruta

3/22/18 @ 8:11 AM
Ban all fracking-related activities including water extraction and wastewater disposal.
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Comment From: Linda Hayes

3/22/18 @ 8:09 AM
All fracking should be banned. Do not use a work-around to spoil our water. Clean water is necessary for life. Fracking has no place near fresh water. In fact the money used for fracking would be better spent on wind and solar energy. Cease harming t...↓
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Comment From: Niki Matsoukas

3/22/18 @ 8:08 AM
Please completely and permanently ban fracking and its related activities in the Delaware River Basin. We need clean drinking water!
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Comment From: Daniel Hanson

3/22/18 @ 8:07 AM
I first came to Delaware River in 1969 when friends and I camped in Narrowburg. Much time has been spent in the area since then in Honesdale, Damascus, Cochecton, and Callicoon. The river is central to each of these communities and the tourism the ri...↓
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Comment From: Harry Lawton

3/22/18 @ 8:06 AM
I protest any fracking anywhere near the precious water basin of the Delaware river (any fracking anywhere actually). The battle is for clean water against any consideration of profits or development. Protect this bay against any expansion of p...↓
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Comment From: David Neevel

3/22/18 @ 8:03 AM
It is essential that under all circumstances, all peoples of the world and for that matter creatures of the world have access to water to live and flourish. If you are in a position to judge, then be in a position to protect the lives of constituent...↓
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Comment From: Ed Parleman

3/22/18 @ 8:02 AM
Please add the following to your draft regulations: prohibit the exportation of water for fracking, and the importation of fracking wastewater for treatment in the basin. Though I no longer live in the area, I grew up in South Jersey, and hope you w...↓
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Comment From: Laurie Tsitsivas

3/22/18 @ 8:01 AM
Once a body of water is contaminated with facking waste, it cannot be undone. This has happened already in too many places due to fracking, and it needs to be stopped NOW!
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Comment From: Dennis Trembly

3/22/18 @ 8:01 AM
The dangerous health consequences of hydraulic fracturing are proven. Water running from a tap which will catch fire if lit is obviously dangerous. Nobody really believes that this water is safe to drink or to use for bathing, general washing, or f...↓
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Comment From: Anthony Albert

3/22/18 @ 8:00 AM
We want ALL fracking banned from the Basin.
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Comment From: tonya l. crawford

3/22/18 @ 8:00 AM
Unbelievable that in 2018 we are still fighting for clean water in any part of America!! How ARCHAIC is this? If we truly ARE the Super Power in the WORLD, then how can this happen anywhere here???
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Comment From: Janice Barthel

3/22/18 @ 8:00 AM
I can't believe that fracking continues with all the damage it does to the environment and individuals. We need to go to globally safe and clean sources of energy. Janice Barthel
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Comment From: Tania Malven

3/22/18 @ 7:59 AM
Fracking leads to water and air pollution. All fracking should be banned and attention and funds directed to renewables. Save the Delaware River and basin!
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Comment From: kristin norderval

3/22/18 @ 7:58 AM
Recently, the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regulations banning fracking in the River Basin. Unfortunately, those regulations don't protect ALL communities – they continue to allow for the exportation of water from the Basin to fracking el...↓
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Comment From: sister rosemarie stevens

3/22/18 @ 7:58 AM
joining the voices for environment to ban fracking and protect our precious water
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Comment From: Susan West

3/22/18 @ 7:57 AM
Fracking in this area is dangerous and unhealthy and should be prohibited.
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Comment From: Karen Stanton

3/22/18 @ 7:56 AM
We are all watching these landmark decisions around the country. They could set positive or dangerous precedents for the rest of us. Water is our most precious resource now and into the future, it is not fully renewable and once it is compromised, ...↓
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Comment From: Eleanor Weisman

3/22/18 @ 7:54 AM
Ban fracking and protect the Delaware River that provides drinking water to many. Thank you.
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Comment From: Marcia Kellam

3/22/18 @ 7:51 AM
Ban Fracking in the Delaware River Basin!! Here in the United States we see many communities struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Recently, the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regu...↓
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Comment From: Kathleen Roberts

3/22/18 @ 7:51 AM
All living things need clean water (H2O) in order to survive. No one except fossil fuel corporations need fracking or other dirty air and water polluting methods to obtain more fossil fuels when we have better, cleaner sources of energy available fro...↓
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Comment From: New York Sustainable Business ... (Hilary Baum)

3/22/18 @ 7:29 AM
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Comment From: Chiara DeSanctis

3/22/18 @ 7:00 AM
As a concerned citizen for our natural resources and for future generations, I WANT ALL FRACKING BANNED. Even though there is clear evidence of the growing damage caused by fracking, common sense should tells us so as well. Please understand facts...↓
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Comment From: Richard Figiel

3/22/18 @ 6:40 AM
I call for a complete ban on hydrofracking in the Delaware River basin, including the importing and exporting of fracking wastewater. Richard Figiel
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Comment From: Janice Bailey

3/22/18 @ 6:11 AM
Fracking will poison the drinking water and force communities to relocate. Protect the drinking water and the environment!
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Comment From: Jon Fein

3/22/18 @ 6:02 AM
Our environment, and especially our rivers, are too fragile and vital to allow the potential harms of fracking. All-too-often in the past we have proceeded, frequently with good intentions, without necessary thought and care. With cost-effective, l...↓
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Comment From: Michael Gary

3/22/18 @ 5:13 AM
No fracking in the Delaware Basin or anywhere!
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Comment From: Lois Safian

3/22/18 @ 5:11 AM
I urge you...Do not pollute the Delaware River!!! Lois Safian
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Comment From: Chris Knox

3/22/18 @ 5:10 AM
Dear DRBC, I'd like to share my views on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. I believe that fracking in the Delaware River Basin should be banned for several reasons, the main one being that our water can become contaminated. The fracking fluid ...↓
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Comment From: Andrew Carreiro

3/22/18 @ 5:07 AM
Dear DRBC, I am an 18 year old student from Downingtown East high school and I want to do all I can to prevent fracking in the Delaware River Basin. We cannot allow fracking in our waters because of several possible issues involving human health and...↓
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Comment From: Scott Jewett

3/22/18 @ 5:07 AM
Hello, my name is Scott Jewett and I am with the movement to ban fracking within the Delaware River Basin. Considering the fact that we obtain most of our drinking water from the Delaware River, I am concerned with the strong possibilities that frack...↓
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Comment From: Donny Hicks

3/22/18 @ 5:07 AM
I live in the Delaware Basin and I am 18 years old. I would strongly support the ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin due to the devastating impact on not only the people that occupy this region and are supplied with the water, but the also th...↓
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Comment From: Brad Drago

3/22/18 @ 5:06 AM
I am not a big fan of fracking, because of how questionable of a method it is to obtain energy. There are many other alternatives that are much easier and less expensive than fracking is, while also being healthier for the environment. As a young adu...↓
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Comment From: Joe Janick

3/22/18 @ 5:06 AM
Good afternoon, I'm a resident of the Delaware River Basin, in class we watched the film Grassland. I'm a very concerned with what fracking, and the effects of the environment and the health of residents. The illness fracking creates due to the hea...↓
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Comment From: Molly Rearden

3/22/18 @ 5:03 AM
To whom it may concern at the DRBC My name is Molly Rearden. I am an 18 year old resident of Pennsylvania in an area that will be affected by possible fracking in the Delaware River. I have learned about the negative affects fracking has on the comm...↓
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Comment From: Nathan McCourt

3/22/18 @ 5:01 AM
The Delaware River Basin is very important to the community and fracking is negatively impacting the area as well as the body of water. Fracking is contaminating the water and is affecting people's households and the necessary resources we need. Frac...↓
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Comment From: Pierce Mahon

3/22/18 @ 5:01 AM
There are many negative effects and costs that come along with fracking. It disrupts many people's ways of life whether it be disrupting their jobs, their homes, or even their own personal health. Fracking contaminates local resources that get into p...↓
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Comment From: Allison Henley

3/22/18 @ 5:01 AM
Can you like, please ban fracking already? There are many reasons why fracking should be banned, and they have been ignored. Fracking causes greenhouse gases to be released into our environment. Gases such as methane are emitted into our atmosphere, ...↓
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Comment From: Tommy Hammett

3/22/18 @ 5:01 AM
As a local citizen of the Delaware River basin, I am extremely concerned by the fracking that is being done there. The negative impacts on the environment and people around this area greatly outweigh the positives that fracking can bring. This proces...↓
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Comment From: Corey Hernandez

3/22/18 @ 5:01 AM
My name is Corey Hernandez and I am an 18 year old senior at Downingtown East High School. I believe fracking should be stopped in the Delaware River Basin because it harms the people and animals who drink from the water. If fracking was stopped ther...↓
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Comment From: Colleen Reilly

3/22/18 @ 4:57 AM
Dear DRBC, My name is Colleen and I'm 18 years old. My favorite class this year is AP Environmental, and in this class we learned about the dangers of fracking. As a young person, I (hopefully) will be around for a long time, and will probably live ...↓
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Comment From: Jonathan Dickinson

3/22/18 @ 4:54 AM
Fracking poisons our vital waters and destroys our country all for the sake of collecting fuels that harm our atmosphere when used. We need to CRACK DOWN ON FRACKING.
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Comment From: Caroline Romano

3/22/18 @ 4:51 AM
We know what fracking does to our environment with pollution and earthquakes. This is a very inefficient way if we want to live on this planet.
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Comment From: Bridget Shields

3/22/18 @ 4:48 AM
Since unconventional fracking has been practiced there have been major, negative impacts on water, air and the health of people and animals . This industry has been put into action without the minimal safeguards required by any other business and the...↓
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Comment From: Roberta Steinman

3/22/18 @ 4:38 AM
I support of a COMPLETE fracking ban. Do NOT ALLOW any toxic or radioactive wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed and DO NOT allow water to be exported from the Basin to fuel fracking ...↓
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Comment From: Lucinda Lee

3/22/18 @ 4:36 AM
I support the Special Regulation amendments proposed by the DRBC in order to protect the Delaware Basin from fracking !
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Comment From: Harrison Kates

3/22/18 @ 4:32 AM
Personally I agree that fracking should be limited to only necessity.
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Comment From: Cat Savage

3/22/18 @ 4:30 AM
Fracking could lead to potentially ruining our water source because it has polluted our water so much in the past and in present day.
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Comment From: Margo Cooper

3/22/18 @ 4:25 AM
PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW ANY FRACKING IN THE DELAWARE RIVER BASIN. DO NOT LIFT THE BAN. FRACKING CAN AND WILL POLLUTE THE RIVER. PEOPLE NEED THAT RIVER FOR DRINKING WATER. YOU MUST ALSO CONSIDER ALL THE WILDLIFE THAT DEPEND ON THE RIVER. THANK YOU. ...↓
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Comment From: Monica Weiss

3/22/18 @ 4:15 AM
NYS has banned hydrofracking for all of the right reasons. It impacts the climate. It is a public health issue. It impacts our air, water and food with contaminants. It is completely illogical and counterintuative to embrace, support, promote or all...↓
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Comment From: Kay Gering

3/22/18 @ 4:01 AM
I support banning ALL fracking activity on or near the Delaware River Basin. Drilling for fossil fuel is not worth the risk of bespoiling our natural resources. And the Delaware River Basin is one of the few pristine waters in the country. We MUST pr...↓
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Comment From: Francis Ashton

3/22/18 @ 3:50 AM
High-volume Hydrolic fracturing must not be allowed in the Delaware River Basin, as it is a severe threat to the health and well-being of some 16 million residents in the basin. Further, the waste water from fracking operations outside the Basin are...↓
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Comment From: William Davis

3/22/18 @ 3:31 AM
With the "fracking" process there is a PERMANENT LOSS of water via injection deep into the earth and by contamination of injection water returned to surface sites . This loss of this pristine water resource would be a fundamental lLIFE THREATENI...↓
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Comment From: Julia Morgan

3/22/18 @ 3:25 AM
Please protect the Delaware River, a national treasure providing drinking water for many. Don't allow fracking anywhere near it!
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Comment From: Tracy Thomas

3/22/18 @ 3:17 AM
The Delaware River Basin is too important a water resource to damage it with fracking -- and we know that fracking WILL impact the water. YOUR JOB IS TO PROTECT OUR WATER, LAND, AIR and HEALTH, NOT secure profit driven activities by political don...↓
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Comment From: Peter Weber

3/22/18 @ 3:17 AM
This documentary about water is my statement: http://blessthewater.com/bless-the-water-video/ Video on river sovereignty:
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Comment From: John Carluccio

3/22/18 @ 3:13 AM
Fracking and any activity related to it needs to be banned. We've seen how it has destroyed parts of Pennsylvania and we should use this as a learning opportunity. I understand the proposed ban still allows for the exportation of fracking wastewa...↓
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Comment From: Melody Farrin

3/22/18 @ 3:13 AM
Ban all fracking and please protect the Delaware and surrounding communities from the impact of fracking. Do not allow the exportation of fracking wastewater from the Basin to fracking elsewhere AND do not allow the importation of wastewater for ...↓
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Comment From: David L Kline

3/22/18 @ 3:10 AM
Until the oil industry takes responsibility for the damage done by fracking, the practice must be stopped.
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Comment From: Elizabeth McCue

3/22/18 @ 3:08 AM
I call for a ban on all fracking activity in the Delaware River watershed today.
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Comment From: Alexander Brebner

3/22/18 @ 3:07 AM
Please do the right thing for us all.
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Comment From: Peter Koch

3/22/18 @ 3:06 AM
There is no sustainable future in the extraction of fossil fuels. Relying on them can only lead to evironmental disaster.
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Comment From: Pamela Brocious

3/22/18 @ 3:05 AM
The Delaware River supplies water to 5% of our nations population. Fracking ANYWHERE NEAR OR AROUND THIS SUPPLY jeopardizes this precious water source for our people and the animal population touched by it...including the Chesapeake Bay. Fracking is ...↓
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Comment From: Perry Harris

3/22/18 @ 3:05 AM
Hydraulic fracking is ruining the substrata that provides healthy necessary water.
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Comment From: Nancy Dyer

3/22/18 @ 2:59 AM
No Fracking....It's toxic and dangerous !!!!!!
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Comment From: Douglas C Smyth

3/22/18 @ 2:55 AM
Hydraulic fracking is a violent assault on the Earth's subsurface and pollutes and disrupts subsurface water and potentially destabilizes rock formations created millions of years ago. It should be banned everywhere, especially since we should not be...↓
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Comment From: Netania Steiner

3/22/18 @ 2:54 AM
The Delaware River is a magnificent part of our national heritage, and one of the last pristine rivers on earth. It also provides drinking water for me and my family. That's about as personal as it gets. So I take everything having to do with the ...↓
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Comment From: Steve Jambeck

3/22/18 @ 2:49 AM
Fracking is dirty and dangerous. Fracking is not renewable. Fracking makes global warming worse. Clean, safe renewable energy sources are the best long term energy solution. Fracking pollutes our water and creates a health hazard for local communitie...↓
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Comment From: Ellen Fauerbach

3/22/18 @ 2:43 AM
What is more precious than clean drinking water? Certainly not profits for oil and gas companies! We must protect the DRB from contamination. No matter how careful we may try to be, accidents happen and in Pennsylvania intentional violations have ...↓
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Comment From: Douglas Waterbury-Tieman

3/22/18 @ 2:35 AM
I believe it is your responsibility to protect the drinking water of your fellow Americans. Please ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Do it for all of us. Thank you.
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Comment From: Alma Largey

3/22/18 @ 2:30 AM
No more FRACKING in the Delaware Basin , rivers , lakes, tributaries and Marsalis Shale! We need our drinking water to be not contaminated!
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Comment From: Marcy Gordon

3/22/18 @ 2:30 AM
Fracking is a crime against nature and humanity and must be globally banned. There is no reason to even use fossil fuels when truly clean technologies exist. Fracking poisons the entire ecosystem with carcinogenic chemicals that kill wildlife and h...↓
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Comment From: Donald Le Ber

3/22/18 @ 2:18 AM
Please no fracking. We can't drink gas or oil, but we can and do, DRINK WATER. It is also a nice river to view from Route 17.
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Comment From: Maryanne Mullany

3/22/18 @ 2:14 AM
the proposed regulations do not fully protect communities from the impact fracking has – they still allow for the exportation of fracking wastewater from the Basin to fracking elsewhere AND the importation of wastewater for treatment into the Bain. ...↓
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