Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: John Kennard

3/10/18 @ 10:52 AM

Quite simply, as a resident of Wayne County, in a township with many waterways from small streams to the Delaware River, I URGE you to maintain the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. I have seen the ecological damage and long term effects of fractu...↓

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Comment From: Robert Davey

3/10/18 @ 5:45 AM

During the early years of the 20th century the Governor and legislature of Pennsylvania realized the watersheds of the three major watersheds in the Commonwealth were at tremendous risk due to the removal of the forests of the Commonwealth and the su...↓

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Comment From: Denise Lytle

3/10/18 @ 3:37 AM

There is a moratorium on all gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking), water withdrawals for and wastewater treatment and discharges from fracking throughout the entire Delaware River Basin today, since 2010.The moratorium was put in place by ...↓the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), the federal interstate agency that manages the water resources of the Delaware River Watershed. The DRBC members –the Governors of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, and the federal government – have the responsibility of protecting the shared waters that provide 15-17 million people in all four of the Watershed states with drinking water, including New York City and Philadelphia.  The Delaware River was designated as a national Wild and Scenic River by Congress because of its outstanding features, irreplaceable resources, exceptional water quality and scenic and recreational value. These prized assets provide important economic benefit to all four states whose tributaries flow to the Delaware River. These values are gravely jeopardized by fracking and its polluting operations and must be protected for the public and future generations. The entire nontidal Delaware River is protected by DRBC's Special Protection Waters regulations that do not allow water quality to be diminished in any way. We are dependent on that protection to keep our water safe. After exhaustive study, the State of New York prohibited fracking based on environmental and public health analysis. The NY Department of Health concluded that the overall weight of the evidence demonstrated the likelihood that adverse health outcomes and environmental impacts from fracking could not be prevented, leading to the Governor's decision to ban high volume hydraulic fracturing in the state. The State of Maryland permanently banned fracking after 2 years of study, based on the potential for adverse public health and environmental impacts. The nat ural gas industry has received unprecedented exemptions from our nation's most important environmental and public health laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. There is significant evidence that natural gas development, and its related operations, which include all the phases of the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") process, from the first stage of industrial land preparation; to the storage, handling, and use of chemicals and additives for extraction and stimulation; to drilling and fracking; to the withdrawal of and degradation of large volumes of water and its discharge and disposal as waste, has substantial adverse effects on public health, property interests, agriculture, and on our air, water, and land. Themost recent statistical analysis of the body of scientific literature by the Concerned Health Professionals of New York and Physicians for Social Responsibility, 685 peer-reviewed papers examining gas drilling and/or hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") were reviewed and the overwhelming majority of studies found evidence of or potential adverse impacts on water, air, and human health. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) has determined that there are 301 cases of private water well contamination caused by oil and gas operations in the Commonwealth;over 4,400 water complaints related to oil and gas have been filed by the public with PADEP.Between 2004 and 11.2016, PADEP lists 9,443public complaints about environmental problems in shale gas drilling areas. EPA's most recently released fracking study provides scientific evidence that fracking activities can impact drinking water resources and includes water impacts from shale gas in the Pennsylvania community of Dimock. Fracking pollutes groundwater, destroying the quality of aquifers for generations to come.The chemicals in fracking fluids will migrate to drinking water aquifers and to the surface –it is not a question of "if", but "when". Considering groundwater flow, time, and the corrosive down hole environment created by gas extraction processes, including the lack of durability of the cement sealant and steel well casings, aquifers and surface waters are not sufficiently isolated from the toxic fluids and deep geology pollutants that are distributed by drilling and fracking. Aquifers could be impacted quickly, such as when there is a faulty cement seal or casing during construction, or over time. But it is certain that the life of the cement and/or steel (usually 80 to 100 years or less) is less than the life of the aquifer - so even if there is no evidence in the near term, the eventual pollution likely occur in less than a century-ruining water sources for the generations that will follow. The potential for fracking fluids to move from the production zone of a gas well to water resources"cannot be engineered out of the process(Gassiat et al. 2013).In other words, the process of injecting fluids into and fracturing the shale causesthe potential pollution problem." Contaminated fluids from the fracking process can move from the deep shale to water resources through various pathways including fractures and natural vertical flow, in thousands of years or in less than ten years, polluting groundwater. Natural gas is primarily methane, a greenhouse gas 86 times more efficient at warming the atmosphere than carbon over a 20 year time frame and its effects persist for hundreds of years. The well documented vented and fugitive losses from natural gas systems contribute to atmospheric warming; current technology and practices have not controlled these releases. The emissions from shale gas development are so great that it is projected that their release from the build out of Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale will prevent the achievement of global warming goals in the state, accelerating climate change. Climate change impacts on the basin's water resources include changes in precipitation and runoff that increase flooding and drought, impairment of habitats and water quality (including salt water intrusion to Delaware Estuary water supplies) and sea level rise. Changes to stream water quality occur where gas drilling and related activities are located. For instance, a publication of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found streams adjacent to gas wells are negatively impacted by runoff and sedimentation (Total Suspended Solids), harming benthic life, fish and wildlife and causing streams to be eroded and destabilized. Substantial damage is caused by the toxic wastewater produced by fracking which contains many dangerous pollutants, including naturally occurring radioactive materials, that cannot be fully removed by treatment and those damages can substantially harm the water quality of our streams and the life in them. Pollutants will inevitably spread downstream to negatively impact all of the watershed states, the habitats, fish, wildlife, and recreational values of the river and our vulnerable drinking water supplies. Fracking uses proppantssuch as silica sand that is mined in the Midwest, states such as Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, to prop open the fractures in the rock caused by the fracking process. The sand mining activities are having devastating impacts in the sand regions and pose serious health impacts for workers. The sand is primarily transported by rail, often on heavy, mile-long trains, and then offloaded onto trucks to be carried into the well site. For the local region, fracking and its activities will cause increased truck traffic. Every gas well results in at least 1400 truck trips to bring in and take out chemicals, fracking proppants, equipment, water and wastewater. As well bores lengthen, the number of truck trips increase up to 2200 per well. Air emissions and water pollution have greater adverse health impacts on those who reside, work, go to school, or frequent the zone within approximately 2 miles from the gas operation. Studies show that those closest have greater exposure and are more likely to develop disease and other health problems. Noise, lights, and changes in quality of life occur in areas where gas drilling and related operations occur. Drilling of a gas well, for instance, takes many days and cannot be interrupted, causing round the clock noise and lights.

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Comment From: Scott Brooks

3/09/18 @ 6:06 PM

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: Donald Mugglin

3/09/18 @ 10:34 AM

Dear Commission, I am writing today to voice my strong opposition to the Delaware River Basin Commission's (DRBC's) proposed rules to severely restrict---and therefore effectively ban---hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and horizontal drilling wi...↓

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Comment From: Thyra Sperry

3/09/18 @ 7:06 AM

Those of us in Pennsylvania are counting on our Article 1, Section 27 of our State Constitution to preserve our right to clean air and water (affirmed by the State Supreme Court on June 20, 2017). The DRBC cannot have different rules for the vario...↓

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Comment From: theodore dinkelo

3/09/18 @ 4:46 AM

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Comment From: Edward Brosnan

3/09/18 @ 4:40 AM

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Comment From: Edward Brosnan

3/09/18 @ 4:38 AM

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Comment From: Edward Brosnan

3/09/18 @ 4:36 AM

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Comment From: DONALD WINNINGTON

3/09/18 @ 4:18 AM

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Comment From: Janice Green

3/09/18 @ 3:53 AM

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Comment From: CARLOS CAMARAZA

3/09/18 @ 3:09 AM

Please protect our waters. Our ecosystem is very fragile and must be protected.

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Comment From: Wayne spaulding

3/09/18 @ 2:02 AM

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Comment From: Wayne spaulding

3/09/18 @ 2:00 AM

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Comment From: Lynn Usie

3/08/18 @ 11:53 PM

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Comment From: Lynn Usie

3/08/18 @ 11:50 PM

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Comment From: Lynn Usie

3/08/18 @ 11:44 PM

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Comment From: MARK Sundberg

3/08/18 @ 6:11 PM

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Comment From: Jeffrey Hoskinson

3/08/18 @ 6:09 PM

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Comment From: Richard Dare

3/08/18 @ 3:25 PM

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Comment From: Joseph Wilson

3/08/18 @ 3:13 PM

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Comment From: Pennsylvania Forest Coalition (Richard Martin)

3/08/18 @ 2:31 PM

Our organization has followed the development of natural gas in Pennsylvania State Forests for the past eight years. We have conducted dozens of "before and after" tours of PA DCNR leases. Former DCNR Secretary John Quigley was right to describe ga...↓

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Comment From: Ken Joyce

3/08/18 @ 2:27 PM

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Comment From: Clark Eastwood

3/08/18 @ 1:56 PM

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Comment From: Neal Gray

3/08/18 @ 1:21 PM

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Comment From: Karen Cox

3/08/18 @ 1:14 PM

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Comment From: Catherine Gordon

3/08/18 @ 12:51 PM

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Comment From: christina kay

3/08/18 @ 12:41 PM

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Comment From: Stephen Sautner

3/08/18 @ 10:07 AM

Dear DRBC, As a rigorous user of the Delaware River Watershed in the form of fishing, swimming, canoeing, and kayaking in the Basin, not to mention owning 14 acres in Hancock, New York in the headwaters of the main stem Delaware, I am strongly aga...↓

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Comment From: Kenneth Maher

3/08/18 @ 7:06 AM

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Comment From: James Murray

3/08/18 @ 6:41 AM

For the most part, I support fracking. Fracking diversifies our sources and increases the amount of natural gas, as well as, somewhat benefitting local communities. These benefits can quickly be negated if fracking related activities are not very tig...↓

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Comment From: Lucien Baranov

3/08/18 @ 5:41 AM

As a resident of New York State and a lover of the outdoors and fishing, I implore the Commission to continue to protect the valuable resource we call the Delaware River and it's tributaries. We cannot afford to continue despoiling the water we drink...↓

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Comment From: Gertrud Gerlach

3/08/18 @ 5:01 AM

My name is Trudy (Gertrud) Gerlach. Although I am from Bradford Co. PA, I spend every weekend in northern Wayne Co. where I enjoy the peace, quiet and unsullied environment of an area that does not have gas drilling and fracking. In my home county th...↓

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Comment From: Michael Hires

3/08/18 @ 4:12 AM

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Comment From: James Talcott

3/08/18 @ 4:01 AM

Dear Commission, I am a resident of the region and make my living as an employee of the energy industry. I'm proud of our industry's work and the benefits it brings to our nation. I also know firsthand that safety is our industry's number one pri...↓

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Comment From: Dianne Padgett

3/08/18 @ 1:20 AM

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Comment From: Vee Taylor

3/08/18 @ 12:07 AM

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Comment From: Brad Gibbs

3/07/18 @ 3:08 PM

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Comment From: Brad Gibbs

3/07/18 @ 3:00 PM

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Comment From: Melisa Romano

3/07/18 @ 2:59 PM

I support all amendments proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commission in regard 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 waste...↓

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Comment From: Richard Martin

3/07/18 @ 2:04 PM

I ask the DRBC not only for a complete ban on natural gas drilling, but also NOT allow wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed. DRBC must protect our watershed. Do NOT allow any wa...↓

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Comment From: Brian Taylor

3/07/18 @ 1:30 PM

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Comment From: David Hand

3/07/18 @ 1:28 PM

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Comment From: David Hand

3/07/18 @ 1:22 PM

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Comment From: Beth Richardson

3/07/18 @ 12:29 PM

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Comment From: Heath Mahoney

3/07/18 @ 12:15 PM

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Comment From: Heath Mahoney

3/07/18 @ 12:13 PM

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Comment From: Levon Baxley

3/07/18 @ 12:09 PM

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Comment From: Donna Graham

3/07/18 @ 11:24 AM

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Comment From: JOHN ORTH

3/07/18 @ 11:10 AM

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Comment From: Martha Edwards

3/07/18 @ 10:59 AM

I dislike the process of piping pressurized scentless gasses through Chester County and every other location. Methane leaks that remain from centuries-old wells and the potential for additional leaks that endanger life after the initial disruption of...↓

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Comment From: W. Thomas Harbin

3/07/18 @ 10:31 AM

W.Thomas Harbin 1830 Felicity Lane Hellertown, PA 18055 7 March, 2018 Re:Propsed Regulations Change Gentlepeople: I am W.Thomas Harbin. I live in Lower Saucon Twp. I am speaking to you only as an interested Citizen and home owner....↓

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Comment From: ROBERT JACKOSN

3/07/18 @ 9:50 AM

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Comment From: ROBERT JACKOSN

3/07/18 @ 9:48 AM

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Comment From: Mark and Judy Harvey

3/07/18 @ 9:06 AM

The Delaware River was designated as a national Wild and Scenic River by Congress because of its outstanding features, irreplaceable resources, exceptional water quality and scenic and recreational value. These prized assets provide important economi...↓

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Comment From: Richard Godleski

3/07/18 @ 8:58 AM

I totally concur with what Trout Unlimited has proposed as any "oversights" would have deleterious and long term effects that would affect generations to come in a state already crippled from previously unmonitored and unregulated fiascos! I am pleas...↓

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Comment From: Gerald Brown

3/07/18 @ 7:34 AM

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Comment From: David Girard

3/07/18 @ 7:32 AM

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Comment From: David Girard

3/07/18 @ 7:28 AM

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Comment From: Francis Hilliard

3/07/18 @ 7:13 AM

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Comment From: Amy Harlib

3/07/18 @ 7:08 AM

TOTAL BAN ON ALL FRACKING AND FRACKING RELATED PROJECTS! STOP THIS INSANE POISONING OF OUR WATER, AIR, AND SOIL! In a press event at COP23, Robert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology at Cornell University said, "Methane is an impo...↓rtant greenhouse gas and is currently responsible for an amount of global warming equal to approximately 60% of that caused by carbon dioxide. Methane reductions offer one of the few available approaches to immediately slow the rate of global warming, since the climate responds more quickly to decreases in methane compared to carbon dioxide."[i] A ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin is an important step in limiting methane emissions, but allowing water withdrawals and the processing of fracking waste in the Basin will only enable more fracking and, therefore, more methane leaks outside of the basin. A 2017 study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center and Climate System Research Center at U. Mass Amherst found that the Northeastern U.S. is the fastest-warming region in the lower 48 states, heating at a rate 50 percent faster than the global average.[ii] [iii] According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, "Records from the mid-twentieth century through 2000 show that the number of snow-covered days across the Northeast has decreased significantly."[iv] The shrinking snowpack and increased runoff will worsen as temperatures continue to rise. Further reducing our water supply by moving water out of the basin and exposing our remaining water to fracking waste contamination should not be permitted, especially when those practices support the fossil fuel production that is exacerbating warming in the first place. In fact, at the very same time that warming is posing risks to our water supply, the amount of water required for fracking is increasing. "Oil and natural gas fracking, on average, uses more than 28 times the water it did 15 years ago, gulping up to 9.6 million gallons of water per well."[v] [vi] More clean water contaminated means more waste. Fracking was never a good idea, but, as the problems it helped create intensify, it has become such a bad idea that it must be stopped. The Delaware River Basin Commission must provide the protections the Basin deserves and vote in favor of a full ban on fracking, water extraction, and fracking waste processing

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Comment From: m/m james marine

3/07/18 @ 6:20 AM

We are very much against reduction of fracking regulations due to the dangers associated with this process. There is too much pollution present as it is, and loosening regulations will make this much worse.

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Comment From: Barnaby Ruhe

3/07/18 @ 6:05 AM

DRBC TELECONFERENCE 6 march 2018 Doctor Barnaby Ruhe speaking: The Ruhe family have been Allentown residents since the 1750s: You of the DRBC should know that your vote to allow Fracking Wastewater-Brine-Floback- to enter the Delaware Wate...↓rshed WOULD BE a violation of your public trust- water is a public trust -and you are the trustees of our water. and we trust you. You look like good people. FRACK WASTEWATER IS NOT BRINE OR FLOBACK IT IS HAZARDOUS MATERIALS NOONE SHOULD ALLOW IN THEIR BACK YARD. EVER. Benzene. Toluene Xylene Borium Boron Strontium Methane and 293 more carcinogens and HAZMATS – all 300 chemicals have been read aloud in Congress for the public record: your water engineers need a Geiger counter to buzz loudly each time a truck shows up to dump its Trojan Horse of poison cocktail. And you need to test for Benzene before a drop of water is dumped on farmers fields AND IN OUR STREAMS and gifted to your wastewater facility. Benzene causes brain damage and debilitating sickness even diluted in small quantities, as per a Columbia University study. Read the label. the HALLIBURTON LOOPHOLE AND ACT 13 AND court GAG ORDERS ARE ALL MEANT TO PRETEND THIS HAZARDOUS WASTE WON'T KILL YOU. Tell that to the dying. YOU CANNOT TREAT NOR DISPOSE HAZMAT SAFELY IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER, WHO IS EVEN TESTING FOR 300 CHEMICALS NOR CLEANING THEM NOR WAITING 430 YEARS FOR THE STRONTIUM AND BORIUM HALF LIFE. THAT IS WHY THEY WANT TO SEND HAZMAT TO YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY TAKEN THE HIT AS EVERYWHERE ELSE. warning: Your vote will target you as a co defendant in class action suits in court in the next ten years and - for ten more years. When you are in court listening to the sick and dying they will say your name over and over. You did it. You let 300 toxic chemicals in millions of gallons of Industrial Frackwastewater enter the DRB and enter the drinking water for Allentown and Philadelphia and the farmers fields so New Jersey will not buy Lehigh Valley milk and Yuenglings brewery will shut down and our school children will know you did it. on the other side of our watershed: Frack Water hits the water table during underground explosions of Marcellus shale, and Floback swamps toxic chemicals into the water table. We in the Delaware watershed thought we were free from this disaster, but your ban is a smokescreen which wants to bring in frackwastewater for cash, whose cash? is there dirty money from Ed Pawlosky moving your way? Are the feds watching this deal closely? AND NOW;; millions of gallons OF FLOBACK are captured to be trucked and trained to the Lehigh Valley to poison the rest of Pennsylvania so that many die. And your vote did it. Please drink the fracked tap water from Dimmick and tell me if you get a buzz. Please do the research to confirm my alert to you. Do your job. Protect us. Tell them : "you can't prove my vote to bring in frackwater killed you." Krancer -who wrote Act 13- lives in Vermont now, he knows what is coming and how to escape Pennsylvania. DRBC members, you, you can expect to be sued by New York and New Jersey who have taken a more systematic approach to eliminate the risk of this poison cocktail entering both their surface and ground water only to have Pennsylvania undo what they've been working so hard to avoid. it will cost Allentown taxpayers and local utilities unspeakable amounts of money to fix an unfixable problem once frackwastewater enters our watershed. Only outright prevention now can save us. You can save us. Keep frackwastewater out of the DRB. The FBI can smell dirty money when Ed Palowski handed over Allentown's water trust to you guys. Can we trust you? You look like good people.

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Comment From: Susan Charkes

3/07/18 @ 5:48 AM

DRBC should reject proposed regulations that would permit fracking wastewater to be disposed of on surface or into injection wells within the Basin. Fracking wastewater presents a risk of contamination of groundwater within the watershed that is unac...↓

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Comment From: sharon furlong

3/07/18 @ 5:48 AM

Thank you for letting me comment yesterday on the telephone call. it was an unexpected pleasure to do so since i had commented at two other hearings. one thing that needs to be said and was answered directly by Tracy Carluccio was the susquehanna rep...↓ort on the safety of fracking being done already that found that the practice had no appreciable effect. As Tracy said, the report only examined a small part of what it could have done to have a complete picture, and was only a short term study. a better way of thinking about this is to look at the overwhelming data that has come out from northern and western pennyslvania, or better yet, Ohio where there are years of problems that are just accumulating and indeed are gettting worse. from methane escaping from wells, to failed pipelines, to sewage treatment plants being overwhelmed and discharging untreated or barely treated water into the natural environment, to contaminated private wells, to feeder streams nearby already showing major signs of collapse, to sinkholes, earthquakes and other seismic events.....how does one define unsafe if not using this material? this is like doctor shopping: where a patient goes from one doctor to another in order to find the one that will tell him or her what they want to hear. inane and dangerous indeed. fracking by its very nature is not neutral. one cannot drill into areas below the ground and shatter it and inject fluids laced with chemicals and particulate material and not expect there to be some response somewhere, if not everywhere. it is a misconception to think that the earth is an object without rules of its own. it is not an object that is all embracing or all forgiving. the rules of limits in nature are rules indeed and apply to the geology and hydrology of the planet. to think otherwise is insane, deluded and so foolish i dont know the right word for the extent of its foolishness. of course, if one factors in profits and shareholder dividends and the power that comes from obscene profits, then it makes perfect sense and is no longer foolish. please do your job. you are not here to make shareholders and bloated CEO's and their minions happy...you are here to protect this River and the area, people, creatures, plants and trees and communities on it and around it. i hope you are going to do the right thing and say NO TO THIS INSANITY, NOW! Thanks again.

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Comment From: mike smith

3/07/18 @ 5:08 AM

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Comment From: Liz Cutler

3/07/18 @ 3:51 AM

I am against fracking that might put harmful wastewater into the Delaware River and Bay.

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Comment From: Sondra Moore

3/07/18 @ 3:49 AM

It is important that we keep the Delaware River free of toxic waste from fracking. This includes not permitting fracking in the Delaware River watershed, not bringing fracking waste water into the watershed, and not allowing water to be removed from...↓

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Comment From: John Thaeler

3/07/18 @ 3:24 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: Easton Environmental Advisory ... (William Dohe)

3/07/18 @ 2:29 AM

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Comment From: Phillip Biggerstaff

3/07/18 @ 2:07 AM

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Comment From: Lois Weston

3/07/18 @ 1:56 AM

New York's natural beauty is our greatest resource. Because the long term effects of hydrofracking are only beginning to be understood (groundwater contamination, earthquakes, and still unsuspected damage), we CANNOT take a chance on permitting ANY a...↓

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Comment From: Lois Weston

3/07/18 @ 1:55 AM

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Comment From: Lloyd Goodman

3/07/18 @ 1:39 AM

Fracking is a short term monetary benefit for cheaper energy while stupidly sacrificing short & long term environmental issues & therefore health. Please repeal it over an approximate (3) year period, giving the suppliers & the users an adjustment p...↓

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Comment From: Dave Mauch

3/06/18 @ 9:22 PM

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Comment From: Janice Banks

3/06/18 @ 9:15 PM

No fracking. Your heart knows this is what you should be preventing, for Earth and all life.

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Comment From: rebecca koo

3/06/18 @ 3:41 PM

The moratorium was put in place by the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), the federal - interstate agency that manages the water resources of the Delaware River Watershed. The DRBC members – the Governors of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, a...↓

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Comment From: Patrick Steece

3/06/18 @ 2:43 PM

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Comment From: Julie Kirsh

3/06/18 @ 2:30 PM

Please put a stop to the fracking!

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Comment From: David Czapnik

3/06/18 @ 1:34 PM

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Comment From: Marilyn Czapnik

3/06/18 @ 1:22 PM

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Comment From: Jeffrey Clyde

3/06/18 @ 12:02 PM

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Comment From: Patricia Lorenz

3/06/18 @ 11:41 AM

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Comment From: Patricia Lorenz

3/06/18 @ 11:39 AM

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Comment From: Elaine Hefner

3/06/18 @ 10:25 AM

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Comment From: Frank Zebedis

3/06/18 @ 7:42 AM

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network

3/06/18 @ 5:34 AM

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Comment From: Kathleen Baker

3/06/18 @ 5:10 AM

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Comment From: Kathleen Baker

3/06/18 @ 5:08 AM

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Comment From: Jose Hernandez

3/06/18 @ 4:53 AM

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Comment From: Allen Scott

3/06/18 @ 4:39 AM

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Comment From: Mary Rijos

3/06/18 @ 2:17 AM

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Comment From: Gregory Klaus

3/06/18 @ 1:42 AM

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Comment From: Jerry Hustak

3/06/18 @ 12:51 AM

Dear Commissioners: I am a dedicated fisherman of the Delaware River watershed and would like to continue to protect this beautiful watershed for future generations. I am writing to support the commission's proposal to protect our natural resourc...↓

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Comment From: Pam Goldman

3/06/18 @ 12:09 AM

Regulations to ban and control fracking are crucial.

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Comment From: Edward C Meier

3/05/18 @ 9:24 PM

Dear Commissioners, As both a New York landowner, a New York fresh water angler and sportsman, as well as a member of a New York landowner group engaged in the hydro-fracking debate I am writing in support of the commission's efforts block hydro-f...↓racking in the Delaware River Basin. As an owner of properties in Chenango County, New York, several years ago I was presented with the opportunity to join a landowner group forming in Chenango County to participate in leasing land to a worthy energy production firm for the purpose of hydro-fracking in the Chenango County area. As a group we are in favor of safe and responsible development of natural gas reserves through the process of progressive hydro-fracking technology. Through our own professionally written lease we set forth a series of regulations and requirements written into our lease that a development company would need to adhere to before we would enter into contract. Before entering into any leases the debate moved to Albany and was eventually shelved as lawmakers adopted a set of strict regulations and limited support for fast track development of hydro-fracking that has stalled the initiative indefinitely. During this time I was able to follow the debate from Trout Unlimited's perspective as a member and active New York angler and sportsman. I obtained an Access Permit to the DEP New York City reservoir lands and expanded my understanding of their concerns and the scope of their interests in the area. Over time my support for hydro-fracking has waned. As I learned more about the actual process and risks associated with hydro-fracking I have reached the conclusion that the risks to groundwater and surface water resources is simply unacceptable. A fracking related incident in our area, regardless of the cause by either accident, negligence, corruption or terrorism would be potentially catastrophic and irreparable. New York State DEC, arguably the most successful conservation organization in the United States is neither staffed nor equipped to police an industry as large and powerful as the energy companies that would operate largely unaccountably in hundreds or perhaps thousands of acres of the Delaware River watershed. Even partnering with the DEP would result in a force much too small and ill-equipped to handle the monitoring and regulatory enforcement required to police the activities of hundreds of drilling sites not to mention the hundreds of highway miles used to transport the caustic waste generated from hydro-fracking that must be transported off site and even out of state. I am not at all confident that the large energy development companies, with the huge profits that are at stake, the limitations of the technology and the massive quantity of resources that the operation requires can guarantee completely safe hydro-fracking in our environmentally sensitive watershed lands. New York rivers, streams, lakes, and wetlands are an irreplaceable resource which has been threatened and transformed and preserved over the centuries for both the survival of New York residents as well as prized for the recreational and quality of life needs of New York residents and non-residents alike. The threats to the Delaware River Basin from widespread hydro-fracking is simply unacceptable to this sportsman and resident. That you for your attention to this critical decision.

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Comment From: Andrew McGrath

3/05/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Barnaby Rue

3/05/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Brian Maguire

3/05/18 @ 5:00 PM

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