Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: Jim Thomas

3/21/18 @ 12:01 PM
As a resident of the Philadelphia metropolitan area, I am very concerned about the potential for fracking both along the Delaware River, and also across the United States.
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Comment From: Judi Gardner

3/21/18 @ 11:52 AM
Fracking is a terrible solution to solving energy independence. Fracking will endanger water source for many thousands of people and create more air pollution. NO FRACKING
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Comment From: June Balish

3/21/18 @ 11:51 AM
I am happy to hear that you are proposing a ban on fracking and hope that you also ban the import and export of fracking wastewater and all associated products and activities.
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Comment From: Michael R Diaz

3/21/18 @ 11:50 AM
Please protect the Delaware from fracking it is important for many people who rely on it for water
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Comment From: Mark Jordan

3/21/18 @ 11:48 AM
Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments Please use this form to submit comments to the DRBC on the revised draft regulations addressing: Special Regulations Part 440 - Hydraulic Fracturing in ...↓
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Comment From: Lynda Yankaskas

3/21/18 @ 11:48 AM
I strongly support the proposed ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. I also ask that the ban be extended so that the export of wastewater for fracking elsewhere and the importation of wastewater from fracking elsewhere for treatment within t...↓
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Comment From: Em Crone

3/21/18 @ 11:47 AM
I am writing to show my support of the ban on fracking on the Delaware river. I am a local to this river and it is very important to me that the drinking water is safe for the surrounding community. I am a big supporter of banning the fracking on ...↓
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Comment From: Valerie Dumova

3/21/18 @ 11:46 AM
Fracking is dangerous to America's waters and to public health. It is far wiser to ban fracking now than to attempt to reverse its harmful effects in the future. Please protect the health of our citizens and our ecosystem by banning fracking.
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Comment From: Eva-Maria Swidler

3/21/18 @ 11:45 AM
Please ban fracking and all its subsidiary activities (using water from the Delaware for fracking, treating fracking wastewater in the Basin, etc.) from the Delaware Basin!! It's time for people and their representatives to stand up to the fossil ...↓
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Comment From: David Shulman

3/21/18 @ 11:45 AM
I'm appalled when the evidence of a tremendous mistake with fresh water is so close by. The mine collapse near Scranton, PA years ago has contaminated millions of gallons of water forever. Fracking has the likelihood of doing precisely the same thing...↓
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Comment From: Jonathan Rubin

3/21/18 @ 11:40 AM
Horizontal and Vertical Hydraulic Natural Gas Drilling (not really natural) or Fracking is an unsafe process that might likely cause a cancer epidemic and a serious spike in cancer deaths as the process uses about 20 carcinogens including Bromides, M...↓
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Comment From: John Cannatella

3/21/18 @ 11:39 AM
MLK: "I have a dream." I share that dream, but I also have a nightmare. We dig for fossils, we bore holes in the earth drilling for oil and gas, all the while weakening the structure and integrity of a planet that nurtures and sustains us for as long...↓
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Comment From: Carolyn A. Kidder

3/21/18 @ 11:37 AM
Please ban fracking and any and all actions that in anyway threaten the potability of water from the Delaware River. Water is becoming a scarce resource; we must do everything possible to prevent pollution, even to making extractive companies somewh...↓
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Comment From: Jonathan Rubin

3/21/18 @ 11:35 AM
Horizontal and Vertical Hydraulic Natural Gas Drilling (not really natural) or Fracking is an unsafe process that might likely cause a cancer epidemic and a serious spike in cancer deaths as the process uses about 20 carcinogens including Bromides, M...↓
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Comment From: Barbara Spillane

3/21/18 @ 11:34 AM
Please ban fracking.
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Comment From: Sharon Aveni

3/21/18 @ 11:27 AM
It is a fact that dangerous chemicals are used for fracking. It is also a fact that those same chemicals pollute Our water. When more jobs can be created in the implementation of sustainable energy, I am only left to believe that you choose destruc...↓
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Comment From: Mitchell Coirin

3/21/18 @ 11:27 AM
It's really simple: ban fracking and keep the Delaware clean. I am not sure why this is even a debate, but I do appreciate the activism and the involvement of the people who it actually affects.
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Comment From: Eileen Weisinger

3/21/18 @ 11:25 AM
I'm not a scientist or even a very learned person but everything that I've heard about hydraulic fracturing and the backlash it has to our food and water supplies is frightening. We New Yorkers banned together to keep it out of our state and the Del...↓
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Comment From: Eila Kokkinen

3/21/18 @ 11:25 AM
I strongly oppose fracking in the Delaware Basin watershed. It would pollute the watershed and the Delaware Basin. Clean, pure water is an endangered resource and we cannot permit the prospect of endangering this source. Ban any fracking in the De...↓
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Comment From: James Keenan

3/21/18 @ 11:24 AM
I am extremely concerned about the safety of our water. Please ban fracking in the Delaware Water Basin. This would include all activities such as importing, storing or exporting fracking waste water. The health of our families depends on this.
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Comment From: Judith Fletcher

3/21/18 @ 11:22 AM
I want to see the DRBC do everything that it can to ban fracking and save the Delaware River and its basin. I see the Delaware as a part of my heritage, as an important part of our national heritage. As one of the last pristine rivers on earth, ...↓
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Comment From: Daniel Spilman

3/21/18 @ 11:22 AM
Well, the data that has been accumulated to date stand squarely in the corner of proceeding extremely slowly on fracking, if not outright banning the practice. We have plenty of examples in PA of major groundwater contamination, and Oklahoma is goin...↓
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Comment From: Jeffrey Laubach

3/21/18 @ 11:21 AM
Ban all fracking!!!
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Comment From: Kathleen Overton

3/21/18 @ 11:21 AM
First, water is precious. What is here is all we have. There is no more when this is ruined. Fossil fuel extraction accidents permanently poison water. And with fossil fuel extraction, accidents are not a matter of "if," but "when." Second, we don...↓
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Comment From: Doug Beube

3/21/18 @ 11:21 AM
Ban Fracking Forever!
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Comment From: Gordon Howard

3/21/18 @ 11:21 AM
Fracking destroys the drinking water and as citizens of the USA we should be entitled to clean drinking water. Only the judiciary stands between the government and the people in a constitutional oligarchy republic. Subversion of the judiciary is a hi...↓
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Comment From: Tracy Sallows

3/21/18 @ 11:20 AM
Please protect the Delaware River, and all the people who rely on it, from hydraulic fracking. Safe, uncontaminated water is absolutely vital to everything; we drink it, bathe in it, cook our food with it, wash our clothes in it and water our crops ...↓
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Comment From: Deia Schlosberg

3/21/18 @ 11:19 AM
Source of life for all vs. source of profit for a few. Seems clear to me. ALL forms of fracking need to be banned everywhere, and especially in the Delaware River Basin, which is the source of water for so many people.
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Comment From: scot randall

3/21/18 @ 11:19 AM
The Earth's water is in danger. Not even global warming deniers can deny this one. Just travel around and see rivers that can actually catch on fire. The Hudson River is getting better now - but the Delaware is a clean slate. An opportunity to no...↓
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Comment From: James D Cronk

3/21/18 @ 11:18 AM
As a frequent visitor to the Delaware River and Water Gap area for recreation, I strongly oppose any fracking initiatives. Our precious natural water resources are, already, way too threatened.
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Comment From: Tammy Harkness

3/21/18 @ 11:17 AM
The Delaware River Basin is a critical resource for both the large population of people living on the east coast and to the wildlife in the area. We need clean water and land to be preserved much more than we need additional petrochemicals for fuel ...↓
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Comment From: Renee Rizzo

3/21/18 @ 11:17 AM
you must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. so that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taugh...↓
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Comment From: Christopher Timmins

3/21/18 @ 11:15 AM
The Delaware River is an important life source, waterway, and natural preserve for my family who hails from Eastern Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia suburbs. As more rivers are dammed, oceans polluted, lakes devastated, water tables decimated by fra...↓
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Comment From: Joshua Kors

3/21/18 @ 11:15 AM
Please ban fracking! I want my water to remain clear of poisons and toxins.
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Comment From: Kimberly Schwanke

3/21/18 @ 11:14 AM
Fracking devastating our communities and should be illegal. Ban all fracking including extraction, transporting and storing of fracked gas wastewater. We as a human race can't sustain this.
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Comment From: Paul Manson

3/21/18 @ 11:12 AM
All fracking and by products of the fracking process vshould be banned from the Delaware.
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Comment From: Garrett Socling

3/21/18 @ 11:12 AM
As someone living along a river that has *not* banned fracking, and someone who has lived with life where entirely inadequate "treatment", spills, overflows, releases, and other "accidents" are common, I'd highly recommend anyone with the ability per...↓
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Comment From: JEFFREY JUDD

3/21/18 @ 11:11 AM
Ban fracking in New York State, particularly important in the New York City watershed and Delaware River areas.
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Comment From: George Bittner

3/21/18 @ 11:11 AM
Protection of clean water is critical to the Nation's future and vital to the health and wellbeing of wildlife and people alike. Please prohibit the practice of "fracking' within the Delaware River watershed. Thank you,
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Comment From: kathleen rengert

3/21/18 @ 11:10 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 Basin. ...↓
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Comment From: Dan Efram

3/21/18 @ 11:09 AM
BAN absolutely ALL fracking. Period. No fracking!
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Comment From: Lena Greenberg

3/21/18 @ 11:08 AM
Please ban all fracking in the Delaware River Basin permanently. No waste storage, no compressor stations, no pipelines, no fossil fuel infrastructure of any kind. This is a tremendous opportunity to show the American people we truly care about our d...↓
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Comment From: Michael Matso

3/21/18 @ 11:04 AM
A world class trout fishery, The Upper Delaware should be OFF LIMITS TO FRACKING.
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Comment From: William Hughes

3/21/18 @ 10:54 AM
Dear Commission, I write to oppose the Commission's proposal that effectively bans natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin region. Our nation's public policies---at all levels of government---must be based on evidence, science, and...↓
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Comment From: League of Women Voters (Jennifer Wilson)

3/21/18 @ 10:32 AM
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Comment From: Thomas Hammond

3/21/18 @ 9:41 AM
Dear Commissioners, I am writing to give support to the DRBC's proposal to protect some of the best trout waters in the region. That being said, I would also urge you to strengthen regulations that would let hydrofracking drillers extract million...↓
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Comment From: Hillary Sell

3/21/18 @ 9:30 AM
PROTECT THE WATERSHED: No discharge of fracking wastewater; No extraction of water for fracking; No fracking activity of any kind in the watershed.
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Comment From: Susan Babbitt

3/21/18 @ 8:17 AM
Natural gas development has degraded Pennsylvania streams, while spills and deliberate dumping of frackwater flowback have contaminated some of our coldwater fisheries. We really need to maintain the complete ban on gas drilling. Our waterways must b...↓
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Comment From: Louise Kidder

3/21/18 @ 7:55 AM
I have lived and travelled in countries where there are water shortages and only bottled water is potable. I have therefore always felt fortunate to be a citizen of a country, a state, and a township where there is still sufficient water and the wat...↓
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Comment From: Susan Meacham

3/21/18 @ 7:47 AM
The natural gas industry has pulled out all the stops to try and convince us all that natural gas is the answer. It is NOT. There is a huge body of information that clearly shows fracking contaminates our drinking water sources; there is medical in...↓
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Comment From: anne veralid veraldi

3/21/18 @ 7:43 AM
No to fracking in Delaware.
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Comment From: Fred Kornblith

3/21/18 @ 7:02 AM
fracking is causing the water supply to become poison..the plan to take water from the Delaware river and put fracked water in is stupid and of course dangerous. just STOP the natural gas frackers ,big companies in USA and Trump the moron from thinki...↓
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Netowrk Delaware Riverkeeper Netowrk

3/21/18 @ 6:51 AM
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Comment From: David Kagan

3/21/18 @ 6:37 AM
I have personally witnessed and had to live through the terrible disruption of a once peaceful life caused by the hydraulic fracturing industry here in north central Pennsylvania. Beginning in 2008 truck traffic up my Route 44 along idyllic Pine Cree...↓
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Comment From: Pauline Pisano

3/21/18 @ 5:57 AM
Ban all fracking indefinitely. Fracking waste and illegal dumping of it doesnt know state lines. It is unsafe and unnecessary.
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Comment From: Sondra Moore

3/21/18 @ 5:52 AM
The Delaware River Basin continues to be under threat by the oil and gas industry. The Delaware River supplies water to a large population, and any actions that endanger the quality of this water supply are irresponsible and must not be allowed. Th...↓
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Comment From: Judith Kay McClintock

3/21/18 @ 5:46 AM
The proposed DRBAC Regulations regarding fracking activity on the Delaware River are totally unacceptable. I am not alone in my sentiments. As you know, there have been four public hearings so far having to do with the proposed DRBC regulations. ...↓
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Comment From: rebecca koo

3/21/18 @ 3:41 AM
no harm to the environment!!
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Comment From: tom harris

3/21/18 @ 3:18 AM
Fracking destroys the environment. It must end.
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Comment From: Nancy Gaylord

3/21/18 @ 3:12 AM
I am a property owner in Damascus Township, PA. I am against drilling and fracking in the Delaware River Basin. I support the DRBC in their efforts to keep the Delaware River Basin watershed pristine with excellent water quality and a good quality ...↓
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Comment From: Stephen Willey

3/21/18 @ 2:56 AM
We've lived in Upper Bucks County on the Delaware River since 1961. We live here especially because of the pristine environment and proximity to the Delaware River for fishing and hiking and boating. Fracking benefits a few corporations while b...↓
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Comment From: John Kastner

3/21/18 @ 2:49 AM
There is no place for hydrolic fracking anywhere near vital water supplies that farms and communities depend on. Aside from the astounding amounts of irreplaceable water required , there is no safe storage of contaminated flowback which contains toxi...↓
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/21/18 @ 2:43 AM
Please find attached a resolution from Doylestown, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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Comment From: Susan McSwain

3/20/18 @ 2:55 PM
I do not live in the Delaware River Basin, but I do live in an area in Virginia where we have a similar threat to our water. Once water is used in a fracking well, it can never be used for anything else. Ever. This one sentence should be enough to...↓
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Comment From: Russ Collins

3/20/18 @ 2:51 PM
From many years of observing the gas industry in the heart of Pennsylvania, I believe that to allow fracking in the Delaware River Basin is a very big mistake.
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Comment From: Amy Harlib

3/20/18 @ 2:46 PM
BAN FRACKING AND ALL FRACKING RELATED PROJECTS THAT INSANELY POISON OUR WATER, AIR, AND SOIL. The DRBC's proposed fracking regulations could open the Delaware River Basin to the removal and transfer of freshwater out of the basin, known as an "int...↓
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Comment From: JODY WILLIAMS

3/20/18 @ 2:01 PM
You've got to be kidding.Allow an industry known for it's abuse to pee all over our Delaware river basin.I inherited this rich watershed from many,who worked hard,to protect it as we see it and my daughter is expecting us to leave it as we found it a...↓
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Comment From: Ling Tsou

3/20/18 @ 1:49 PM
I am writing to urge DRBC to issue regulations to completely and permanently ban fracking, hydraulic fracturing, for natural gas and fracking related activities including water withdrawals and wastewater processing, storage and discharges throughout ...↓
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Comment From: NICK NAZZARO

3/20/18 @ 1:18 PM
I will not support any 'ban' on natural gas or water withdrawal for HVHF, (fracking). HVHF has been in use since the early 1980's with great success and no contamination with water supplies. Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel energy we have....↓
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Comment From: Kirsten Stephen

3/20/18 @ 9:08 AM
Dear Commission, I write as a member of America's energy industry to say that I strongly oppose the DRBC's proposed rule to severely limit and thereby effectively ban hydraulic fracturing within your jurisdiction. Our industry serves the natio...↓
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Comment From: Robert Layton

3/20/18 @ 4:38 AM
As a property owner in Tioga County, Gaines Township I would caution anyone who has property in the Delaware Basin to beware of promises of "BIG BUCKS ", environmental consciousness and promises to repair property and highway damage, better then befo...↓
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Comment From: Annette Angiuli

3/20/18 @ 3:11 AM
Ban fracking, clean water is priority
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Comment From: Tracy Lira

3/20/18 @ 3:07 AM
I support all amendments proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commission in regards to Hydro Fracking, and agree that a complete ban of fracking and fracking related activities are necessary. I am most concerned with the inefficiency of treating wast...↓
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Comment From: Heather Nelson

3/20/18 @ 2:58 AM
As a fisherman, I care deeply about clean water and habitat that supports great fishing. As a person, I care deeply about all of us that live in the watershed and rely on it for drinking, bathing, cleaning, recreation, and livelihoods. Please strengt...↓
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Comment From: Sally Jane Gellert

3/20/18 @ 2:54 AM
It is very important that we ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin; the river provides drinking water to millions of residents; we have seen fracking cause earthquakes in Oklahoma, have seen water in the Susquehanna Valley become undrinkable, and ...↓
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Comment From: Edith Kantrowitz

3/20/18 @ 2:38 AM
Please ensure that the DRBC's new regulations provide a complete ban on fracking related activities in the Delaware River basin watershed. This includes not only drilling, but also water withdrawals for fracking, and the storage and/or disposal of f...↓
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Comment From: Richard Terry

3/20/18 @ 1:06 AM
I am not in favor of water being pulled out of the Delaware river for the purpose of fracking.
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Comment From: James Coffey

3/19/18 @ 11:56 PM
Please protect the Delaware River Watershed from fracking and/or resource extraction & endangerment to support fracking in other areas.
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Comment From: Thornton Long

3/19/18 @ 3:36 PM
I live in NJ and I OPPOSE the draft regulation. The Delaware River Basin is relatively clean now. We need regulations which will make it cleaner, not which would allow companies to pollute and degrade it with fracking waste, or to extract our preciou...↓
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Comment From: Kirk Klingensmith

3/19/18 @ 2:42 PM
This watershed is the best wild trout river east of the Mississippi and source for NYC drinking water. We should do everything we can to keep the water clean.
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Comment From: AJ Thackrah

3/19/18 @ 2:31 PM
Please do everything possible to maintain and preserve the water shed. Please do not permit any type of fracking or the results there of to effect the water shed. Thank you.
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Comment From: Richard Rethorn

3/19/18 @ 2:10 PM
It's unbelievable that fracking is still even considered, never mind in the DRB, where so much is at stake. I am for a ban on any and all drilling for oil or gas in the DRB, no waste water disposal or use of water in those industries.
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Comment From: Natalie Golonka

3/19/18 @ 2:00 PM
We do not want any fracking in the Delaware River Basin!
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Comment From: Concerned Health Professionals... (Larysa Dyrszka)

3/19/18 @ 1:43 PM
Dear Members of the DRBC, As a co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals of New York, and co-author of the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking – Fifth Edition, just released last week, a...↓
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Comment From: Christopher Henrickson

3/19/18 @ 1:32 PM
Dear Commissioners: I am writing to support the DRBC's proposal to protect our natural resources by prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Basin. I urge you, however, to strengthen regulations that would let drillers withdraw milli...↓
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Comment From: Michael Graver

3/19/18 @ 1:26 PM
PROTECT THE WATERSHED: No discharge of fracking wastewater; No extraction of water for fracking; No fracking activity of any kind in the watershed!!!
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Comment From: Thornton Long

3/19/18 @ 11:08 AM
I live in NJ and I OPPOSE the draft regulation. The Delaware River Basin is relatively clean now. We need regulations which will make it cleaner, not which would allow companies to pollute and degrade it with fracking waste, or to extract our preciou...↓
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Comment From: WILLIAM HEFFNER

3/19/18 @ 10:46 AM
Dear Commissioners: I am writing to support the DRBC's proposal to protect our natural resources by prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Basin. I urge you, however, to strengthen regulations that would let drillers withdraw milli...↓
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Comment From: Mary Westervelt

3/19/18 @ 9:52 AM
Continue the ban on fracking in the Delaware Basin - including banning storage of wastewater or dumping of wastewater in the Delaware or its tributaries. We need to stop producing carbon-based fuels. Jobs can be created by supporting alternative,...↓
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Comment From: Judi Roggie

3/19/18 @ 9:23 AM
Written Comment by Judi Roggie, 1830 Felicity Lane, Hellertown PA 18055 submitted March 19, 2018 Thank you for extending the comment period on your proposed draft regulations addressing hydraulic fracking and additional clarifying amendments. I ...↓
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Comment From: Janet Rich

3/19/18 @ 8:49 AM
There should be no fracking in the Delaware River Basin, including no withdrawal of clean water or any disposal of water used in fracking. Our water resources are precious and scarce and must be preserved for human use. Our children and grandchildr...↓
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Comment From: Cynthia Westerman

3/19/18 @ 6:40 AM
I definitely support not allowing fracking in the Delaware River Basin. This basin is too important a water source to allow it to become polluted by fracking. Also the drilling and accompanying industrial process will spoil the basin for the many p...↓
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Comment From: Wayne County Planning Commissi... (William Troop)

3/19/18 @ 5:16 AM
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Comment From: Steven Schwartz

3/19/18 @ 5:01 AM
• I support the proposed ban on unconventional gas drilling in the Delaware River watershed • I oppose the proposed regulation allowing for the withdrawal and export of water from the Delaware River Watersheds to other watersheds for the purposes of...↓
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:44 AM
Please find attached a resolution from Yardley Borough, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:43 AM
Please find attached a resolution from Wrightstown Township, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:42 AM
Please find attached a resolution from Watchung, NJ to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:40 AM
Please find attached a resolution from Tusten, NY to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:39 AM
Please find attached a resolution from the Borough of Riegelsville, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:37 AM
Please find attached a resolution from Mount Penn Borough, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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