Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: warren weglinski

2/27/18 @ 5:26 AM

I encourage you to write comments of your own. Tell them where you live, why you care about clean water as a sportsman or woman, and why you support these regulations to protect our streams. Or, if you'd like, feel free to copy and paste the comments...↓

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Comment From: Richard Cummins

2/27/18 @ 5:26 AM

No comment at this time.

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Comment From: Dave Wilson

2/27/18 @ 5:25 AM

Fracking needs to be banned nationally. It is a health and an environmental hazard. It's unconscionable to allow it anywhere.

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Comment From: Jeffrey Nathan

2/27/18 @ 5:24 AM

Dear Commissioners: I am writing to support the commission's proposal to protect our natural resources by prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Basin, but I urge you to strengthen regulations that would let drillers withdraw million...↓

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Comment From: Kathryn Mackey

2/27/18 @ 5:23 AM

I am an avid fly fisherwoman & nature lover. Please tighten protections for our precious water supply. The fragile ecosystem of our waterways needs to be protected from the hazards of fracking.

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Comment From: Donald Burke

2/27/18 @ 5:22 AM

Please do not allow fracking in the Delaware River Basin.

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Comment From: james macdonall

2/27/18 @ 5:22 AM

The DRB is too valuable a resource to risk pollution by fracking or fracking related activities.

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Comment From: jon pina

2/27/18 @ 5:22 AM

prohibit drilling activities that could affect the Delaware River watershed

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Comment From: Louis Martin

2/27/18 @ 5:22 AM

Dear Commissioners: Thank you for the commission's proposal to protect our natural resources by prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Basin. Additionally, I urge you to strengthen regulations. Please prohibit drillers from withd...↓

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Comment From: vincent taninies

2/27/18 @ 5:22 AM

Support DRBC Proposed Regulations on Fracking!

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Comment From: Donald Burke

2/27/18 @ 5:22 AM

Please do not allow fracking in the Delaware River Basin.

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Comment From: Michael Koumas

2/27/18 @ 5:21 AM

Please do not frack. Our children will inherit our decisions and their consequences long after we have made a profit.

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Comment From: Brian Woodward

2/27/18 @ 5:20 AM

Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying will ruin a treasure we have. Please do not allow Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying.

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Comment From: Tiffany Smith

2/27/18 @ 5:20 AM

A complete ban of natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin is not only a violation of the DRBC Compact, it is unconstitutional and a violation of my rights. Pennsylvanians should be governed by Pennsylvania Law and not the DRBC. What is go...↓

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Comment From: Tom Denison

2/27/18 @ 5:18 AM

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Comment From: Steven MARSANICO

2/27/18 @ 5:18 AM

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Comment From: Jeffrey Lane

2/27/18 @ 5:17 AM

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Comment From: A Hooff

2/27/18 @ 5:17 AM

These are insanely important waterways for the northeast.

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Comment From: Edward K Swain, Jr, DMD

2/27/18 @ 5:16 AM

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Comment From: Dennis McCarthy

2/27/18 @ 5:16 AM

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Comment From: Lawrence Esposito

2/27/18 @ 5:13 AM

We cannot risk damaging the valuable Delaware river basin.

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Comment From: Larry Condit

2/27/18 @ 5:13 AM

Please Save our River

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Comment From: Andrew Freeman

2/27/18 @ 5:11 AM

We are stewards to our immediate land. It is our responsibility to protect the land and all of it's natural resources. Period.

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Comment From: Christopher Henrickson

2/27/18 @ 5:10 AM

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Comment From: Steven Meiseles

2/27/18 @ 5:08 AM

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Comment From: Damian SANDONE

2/27/18 @ 4:44 AM

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Comment From: Ivan Russell

2/27/18 @ 4:38 AM

Peer-reviewed studies in western Pennsylvania show that radioactive materials have accumulated over 600x normal, downstream from "treatment plants". Eliminate Section 440.5. Do not allow frackwater to be imported into the Delaware River watershed fo...↓

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Comment From: Evelyn Sandone

2/27/18 @ 3:59 AM

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Comment From: Anthony Sandone

2/27/18 @ 3:49 AM

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Comment From: Susan Babbitt

2/26/18 @ 11:05 PM

I would like to support Governor Phil Murphy in supporting a ban on hydraulic fracturing throughout the Delaware River Basin.

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Comment From: Chris Hazynski

2/26/18 @ 7:39 PM

Stop fracking. It's killing the planet and not the way to go in the future.

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Comment From: John Capowski

2/26/18 @ 7:48 AM

I am writing to oppose proposed regulations 440.5, which would allow the discharge of wastewater into the Delaware River Basin, and 440.4, which would allow water to be taken from the watershed and used for fracking. Because the watershed is a f...↓

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Comment From: Carl Balis

2/26/18 @ 6:33 AM

This proposal is so outrageous that I hardly know where to start, and am almost at a loss for words. To even consider such a proposal is outrageous. It assaults one's sense of the most basic human decency and code of honor, because this proposal c...↓learly has none at all. It is impossible to take seriously a proposal to take millions upon millions (which over time would cascade to a sum of billions) of gallons of water from the Delaware River, fill that water with hundreds of poisonous chemicals in order to use it in the heavy industrial operation known as fracking, then "treat" it and render it "perfectly safe", and finally pump it back into the Delaware River. This is a policy conceived by madmen, by those with no conscience or soul, by those whose only focus in life is their own rapacious appetite for profits, the rest of the world be damned. And more to the point, it's a policy proposed by the most vulgar of liars. May I say that I have chosen my characterization as "liars" very carefully. The people telling us that it is "perfectly safe" are the same people who have refused to reveal what chemicals they use in their fracking operations. Back in 2005, when some Pennsylvania citizens demanded to know what chemicals were being pumped into their communities, the fracking companies went to the Bush administration, who then lobbied Congress to grant them an exemption freeing them from any requirement to release this information, on the grounds that this information was a "trade secret" that the public had no right to know. Really? No right? A trade secret? Excuse me while I convulse with laughter. If that were not enough, they then prevailed upon the Pennsylvania legislature to pass a law, stating that if a private citizen investigated and discovered what chemicals were being used, that they were forbidden by that law to make this information public, upon penalty of prosecution. Forbidden by law!! So on top of the actual deed of pouring poisons into the environment and polluting our homes, these companies had the brash arrogance to deny Pennsylvania's citizens the right of free speech and free press in order to hide the harmful and highly dangerous nature of their activities. That can only be seen as the mentality of criminals. They tell us it's safe, but they refuse to divulge what chemicals they use, and threaten legal action against those who seek to find out. I am on firm ground when logically concluding that they are liars. So, are we to believe these same people, people who have previously gone to such lengths to hide their actions when they tell us now that it is "perfectly safe" to pour the poisoned water they have "treated" back into the Delaware River? Certainly not!!!!! You would sooner trust a snake!!! They are taking fresh, pure water out, and pouring poison back in. Who with even the common sense of a jar of mayonnaise would believe such claptrap? The answer is that no one would. Not a single solitary soul. Nor should you who sit on the Delaware River Basin Commission. Not for an instant. Protect Pennsylvania's natural heritage and her citizens from this obvious onslaught. It is your sworn duty to do so. We need you. One last thought. This is almost comical, but I will present it. Let's make the following proposal to the fracking companies. Since you assure us that the "treated" water is "perfectly safe", we will disconnect your homes and offices from the municipal water system, and we will construct special pipelines that would carry the "treated" water into your homes and offices. This will be the water you and your families and employees will drink, use for your laundry, use for bathing, etc. Do you agree to this arrangement? I have to chuckle most heartily as I imagine their response. Priceless!!! Suddenly that water would not be so "perfectly safe", would it? Thank you.

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Comment From: Peter Dietz

2/26/18 @ 6:21 AM

I say, frack away. The more fracking the better.

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Comment From: Liz Cutler

2/26/18 @ 4:31 AM

There has been a lot of evidence that fracking is bad for public and environmental health. The Delaware River Basin is a hugely important water source and has great economic value as a wild and scenic river. I am asking for a complete ban on frackin...↓

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Comment From: JL SHANE

2/26/18 @ 3:42 AM

The best way to avoid the pollution that results from natural gas operations is to prohibit gas drilling entirely in the river basin. Make the ban total and permanent. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air an...↓

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Comment From: Teresa LoPorto

2/26/18 @ 2:43 AM

Fracking pollutes water. If you allow Delaware River Water to be used for fracking it will be polluted. Are you sure it can be 100% ceaned before it is discharged back into the environment? We have passed peak oil & at some point will necessaril...↓

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Comment From: Dave Stracke

2/26/18 @ 12:52 AM

The Delaware watershed is so important to this region. I feel very strongly that no fracking or discharging of water used in fracking should occur in the Delaware watershed. We need to keep this water and this area as pristine as possible.

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Comment From: Benjamin Luccaro

2/26/18 @ 12:44 AM

To DRBC, I am writing as a concerned resident of the Delaware Valley Region to express my opinion that the DRBC should not lift the moratorium on gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing, water withdrawals for and wastewater treatment and discharges fr...↓om fracking throughout the entire Delaware River Basin. Furthermore, I strongly implore, and as an environmental scientist advise, the DRBC not just to extend the moratorium currently in place, but also to move towards a permanent ban on fracking and it's related activities within the Delaware River Basin. Based on my understanding of soil science, hydrology, and ecology, I agree with the determinations of the states of New York and Maryland to ban high volume hydraulic fracturing based on the likelihood that adverse health outcomes and environmental impacts from fracking can not be prevented. There will be spills, there will be leaks, there will be accidents. Hydraulic fracturing benefits a tiny fraction of the 15-17 million people living within the Delaware Basin Region. On the other hand, the health risks, personal property loss and destruction due to eminent domain, and ecological degradation brought about by hydraulic fracturing activities will be inflicted on the vast majority of residents. In addition to being an environmental scientist I have also been a lifelong resident of the New Hope-Solebury area in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. My family have always run businesses in the New Hope and Solebury area. My parents first business was a bike and canoe rental business in New Hope, and we currently operate a bed and breakfast located on the Delaware River in Lumberville, PA. Based on my experience living in this area I can truly testify to just how much the Delaware River is the lifeblood of people living in this region. Congress recognized how vitally significant the Delaware River was when they designated it as a national Wild and Scenic River. Hydraulic fracturing activities within the Delaware River Basin completely jeopardize the responsibility to maintain the rivers outstanding features, irreplaceable resources, exceptional water quality and scenic and recreational value. Allowing hydraulic fracturing within the Delaware River watershed would also run contrary to the DRBC's own Special Water Regulations that prevent all of the rivers non-tidal waters from being diminished in quality. This is a critical decision you are tasked with. Lifting the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing activities within the Delaware River Basin will surely lead to irreversible consequences both in the short term and long term. The importance of protecting the Delaware River for present and future generations is far to vital to subject the River and it's tributaries to the pressures of hydraulic fracturing. Please say no to hydraulic fracturing within the Delaware River Basin, and protect the Delaware and it's tributaries for now and forever. Thank you for your time and consideration, Ben Luccaro

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Comment From: Stacey Altemus

2/25/18 @ 11:07 PM

I support no fracturing activity in our Delaware river. Moreover, the resources and water should not be used to support such activities elsewhere. The wellness of our local environment matters to me and my family. Thanks

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Comment From: Roland Olson

2/25/18 @ 5:08 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: Star Hesse

2/25/18 @ 4:30 PM

2/25/18 I urgently ask the DRBC to permanently ban any fracking, and/or related fracking activities (like the dumping of toxic fracked waste water), from anywhere in the Delaware River Basin and surrounding areas. Reams of factual, scientific data h...↓

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Comment From: Jim Kippen

2/25/18 @ 12:31 PM

Polluting the Delaware river with fracking water will essentially be poisoning millions of people.

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Comment From: Lionel Ruberg

2/25/18 @ 11:57 AM

It is important to not only support a complete ban on natural gas drilling, but also to oppose proposed regulations 440.5 which would allow the wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed. ...↓In addition, we also oppose proposed regulation 440.4 which would allow water to be exported from the Basin for fracking elsewhere. We need protection from the DRBC, not exemptions. The Federal exemptions reduce control of how hazardous materials from fracking must be disposed of. Rescind the proposed section 440.5 and protect the Delaware River watershed. The best way to avoid the pollution that results from natural gas operations is to prohibit gas drilling entirely in the river basin. Make the ban total and permanent. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air and water. Our water quality must not be degraded. Natural gas activities result in discharges of the myriad of chemicals used in fracking and results in radioactivity downstream. Proposed Regulation 440.5 must be deleted. No water from outside this watershed should be imported for treatment. Toxic, hazardous and radioactive materials build up over time and are cumulative. Our groundwater and streams would be at risk. The natural gas drilling industry has already received unprecedented federal exemptions from the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. We need more protection from the DRBC, not less. PA DEP has received over 9,000 public complaints about environmental problems in shale gas drilling areas. We can avoid that grief by banning all gas drilling in the Delaware River basin. Contaminated fluids from the fracking process has been proven to migrate from the deep shale layers and contaminate our groundwater. Delete proposed regulation 440.5 It makes little sense to allow frackwater fluids to be brought in to our watershed. Natural gas development has degraded Pennsylvania streams. Spills and deliberate dumping of frackwater flowback have contaminated some of our coldwater fisheries. Keep the complete ban on gas drilling in place. Protect our streams. Fracking has negative impacts on public health. Air emissions have greater adverse health impacts on those who reside in or frequent areas within two miles of gas operations. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air. Keep the complete ban on gas drilling in place. Most of the Delaware River is protected by the Commission's "Special Protection Waters" regulations. Water quality is not allowed to be degraded. Keep the total ban on gas drilling in place. "Treatment" & discharge of fracking wastewater will degrade the water quality of the river. Rescind proposed section 440.5 The Precautionary Principal states that if you cannot predict all the effects of an action, do not do it. Do not allow any gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin. Allowing gas drilling in the Delaware watershed puts the water supply for up to 17 million people at risk. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) has determined that there are 300 cases of private water well contamination caused by oil and gas operations in the Commonwealth. Keep the ban on natural gas drilling in place. Between 2004 and 2016, PA DEP handled 9,443 complaints about environmental problems in shale gas drilling areas. We do not need those problems in the Delaware River watershed. Keep the total ban on gas drilling in place. Peer-reviewed studies in western Pennsylvania show that radioactive materials have accumulated over 600x normal, downstream from "treatment plants". Eliminate Section 440.5 Do not allow frackwater to be imported into the Delaware River watershed for "treatment". Many of us rely on our water wells for our homes. Water is life. We cannot chance having our wells contaminated by gas drilling activities. Do not allow any gas drilling activities in our watershed. We have seen only a small fraction of the total build-out of natural gas in Pennsylvania. In the future, the drilled laterals will be longer and the amount of water per well will more than double. That will result in huge volumes of frackwater flowback that must be disposed of properly. With no cradle-to-grave accounting of that flowback, we fear that spills will not be reported and illegal disposal of that flowback will be a huge problem. The only way to protect us is to keep the ban on gas drilling in place. Thank you for considering my views, Lione Ruberg

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Comment From: Daniel L. Alters

2/25/18 @ 9:30 AM

As an environmental regulator with the PA DER/DEP for 35 years, and a resident of Lycoming County until 2016, I can attest to water quality issues created by the Marcellus gas industry. When given the opportunity, every operator I am familiar with wi...↓ll push the environmental regulations affecting their operations into the area of non-compliance. In spite of their few efforts to comply, pollution incidents will occur. Some will be minor, some will be catastrophic. Preventing the pollution that inevitably results from Marcellus natural gas operations mandates the prohibition of gas drilling entirely in the Delaware River basin. DRBC must make the ban total and permanent. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air and water, among other significant protections. I was a small part of the lawsuit that resulted in the decision supporting that amendment before the Commonwealth and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, and I will never stand idly by should any entity choose to engage in polluting activities. The water quality of the Waters of the Commonwealth are protected by ARticle 27 and must not be polluted, from any man-made source. The DRBC has proposed Regulation 440.5 that is intolerable. There are already many sources of contaminated wastewater within the watershed, and no additional wastewater from outside the watershed should be imported for treatment and/or disposal. The interbasin transfer of water has been an hot-button issue for many years, an I expect the DRBC to take the conservative stand and prevent any and all activities that imperil the Delaware River. Contaminated fluids from the drilling and fracking operations have proven to migrate from the drill pads and contaminate both surface and groundwater. I cannot tolerate proposed regulation 440.5 and it should be deleted from your proposal. It makes little sense to allow frackwater fluids to be brought in to the Delaware watershed. Natural gas development has degraded Pennsylvania streams. Spills, deliberate dumping of frackwater flowback, transportation crashes, and the effects of woodland fragmentation have contaminated many coldwater fisheries. I urge the DRBC to ban all gas drilling in the Delaware River watershed. It has been proven that Marcellus gas operations have adverse health impacts on families living in the immediate area of the operation. while Article 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air. A ban on gas drilling within the Delaware River watershed will prevent impacts on people as well as constitutional challenges to DRBC regulations. Studies by Margaret Brittingham and others have determined negative impacts on bird life from Marcellus gas development activities. The National Academy of Sciences found that watersheds in the vicinity of gas wells to be negatively impacted by runoff and sedimentation, et al., destroying the macrobiotic aquatic life, fish and other wildlife. The DRBC must be certain this does not occur within the Delaware River watershed. Marcellus gas activities near Dimock, PA, have demonstrated the likelihood of water well contamination by Marcellus gas production activities. Folks living within the Delaware River watershed cannot abide by having their wells contaminated by gas drilling activities. There is no immediate need for additional natural gas development in this world. The negative impacts of climate change are occurring now, far earlier than anyone would have expected. Additional natural gas is not necessary in this new world of alternative energy resources, and making it available on the cheap, at the expense of the Delaware River's unique natural resource, is not only counterproductive internationally, it is detrimental to Pennsylvania. Please read my comments to EPA during their carbon rule-making session in Pittsburgh.

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Comment From: Mary Ann Leitch

2/25/18 @ 8:28 AM

With no step by step accounting of frackwater flowback, I fear that spills will not be reported and illegal disposal of that flowback will be a huge problem. In the future, the drilled laterals will be longer and the amount of water per well will mor...↓e than double. It was reported years ago, "one million per well with 80,000lbs of toxic chemicals". It is being reported now, 10 million and up per well. Where is this water coming from? People need clean, pristine water to survive. The survival of profiteering industries comes in second. "No man may poison the people for private profits" - Theodore Roosevelt. Any new expansion of wells, and unfortunately that is on the table, will result in huge volumes of frackwater flowback that must be disposed of properly. The only way to protect us is to keep the ban on gas drilling in place. It is important to not only support a complete ban on natural gas drilling, but also to oppose proposed regulations 440.5 which would allow the wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed. In addition, we also oppose proposed regulation 440.4 which would allow water to be exported from the Basin for fracking elsewhere. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air and water. Our water quality must not be degraded. Natural gas activities result in discharges of the myriad of chemicals used in fracking and results in radioactivity downstream. Proposed Regulation 440.5 must be deleted. No water from outside this watershed should be imported for treatment. Toxic, hazardous and radioactive materials build up over time and are cumulative. Our groundwater and streams would be at risk. Most of the Delaware River is protected by the Commission's "Special Protection Waters" regulations. Water quality is not allowed to be degraded. "Treatment" & discharge of fracking wastewater will degrade the water quality of the river. Rescind proposed section 440.5 The Precautionary Principal states that if you cannot predict all the effects of an action, do not do it. Do not allow any gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin. Between 2004 and 2016, PA DEP handled 9,443 complaints about environmental problems in shale gas drilling areas. We do not need those problems in the Delaware River watershed. Keep the total ban on gas drilling in place. The National Academy of Sciences found streams near gas wells are negatively impacted by runoff and sedimentation, harming life, fish and other wildlife. The DRBC has a mission to protect our resources. Make the ban on natural gas drilling permanent. Peer-reviewed studies in western Pennsylvania show that radioactive materials have accumulated over 600x normal, downstream from "treatment plants". Eliminate Section 440.5 Do not allow any gas drilling activities in our watershed.

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Comment From: Steve Sears

2/25/18 @ 7:34 AM

Regulations 440.5 must NOT be allowed to release Fracking waste water into any stream or rivers. We've seen what happens when Coal Ash was released and just how many communities were affected. The chemicals in the Fracking waste has many similar ch...↓

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Comment From: Dave Elder

2/25/18 @ 6:37 AM

I strongly agree with making the current temporary fracking ban a permanent one, but I also have concerns about allowing fracking companies to do water withdrawals from the Delaware River Basin, and I oppose allowing the importation and treatment of ...↓

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Comment From: Patricia Stock

2/25/18 @ 3:37 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: Kerry Carfano

2/24/18 @ 4:51 PM

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Comment From: Matthew Ford

2/24/18 @ 7:08 AM

Protecting our water resources should be of the highest priority. Any regulations should have this requirement as part pf their Bible. Revisions not accepting this regulation should be eliminated in favor of protecting this liquid treasure for fu...↓

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Comment From: Gerard Dowd

2/24/18 @ 4:31 AM

A complete ban on natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin is just the beginning of overreach by an organization of unelected officials. Not only is it a violation of the DRBC Compact, it is unconstitutional and a violation of my rights. ...↓

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Comment From: Harold Roeder

2/24/18 @ 3:43 AM

The job of the DRBC is to address water needs, not prohibit them. They address the water needs for "power generation" and "industrial activity" as a part of their mission, recognizing these needs and balancing them with other needs through reasonabl...↓

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Comment From: Fred Peckham

2/24/18 @ 1:02 AM

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Comment From: Fred Peckham

2/24/18 @ 12:55 AM

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Comment From: Bryn Hammarstron

2/23/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Dyanne Jurin

2/23/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Harriet Shugarman

2/23/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: James Orben

2/23/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: oak Tree Properties (mark lichty)

2/23/18 @ 2:20 PM

I think it is important for me to identify myself. I am a manufacturer who ten years ago was profracking and than became anti fracking. I spent $200,000 converting a plant I owned from gas to oil. I believed that gas was less polluting. When I ...↓did the research I learned that the process of fracking was highly polluting, and changed my position. I felt so strongly about the moral aspect of this that I spent thousands of hours, and thousands of dollars making a film , Groundswell Rising, to let people know of its dangers. The sad part of this tale is that I do not now have that $200,00 spent on the conversion to spend on clean energy. Over a thousand studies establish the health consequences of fracking. We heard at the LCCC hearing API testify that it was safe. We heard five years ago that there was no water contamination from fracking. Even the DEP stated that. We knew differently at the time, and it subsequently came out that wells do indeed leak and contaminate water. The gas industry has lost any vestiges of credibility they once may have had. Since that time, the Pa Auditor General has stated that the "DEP is doing a woefully inadequate job of regulating the gas industry. " The gas industry has a disproportionate influence in the state (See the report Deep Drilling Deep Pockets). I further observed that only one landowner testified at the hearing. He has an economic interest in the outcome. That contaminates his testimony. In fact, before I sold my plant I had an economic interest in gas, a cheaper fuel. Should I jeopardize my grandchildren by allowing that economic interest to prevail. I think not. The hundreds of people who have showed up to defend the Delaware have nothing to gain, but to protect a river. I write hear as well representing UUPLAN and a coalition of Faith groups that fell strongly that fracking and any related activity fracking is a moral issue. When there are a thousand studies establishing the risks of fracking, and they are ignored, this is a moral issue. The preponderance of the evidence establishes that fracking is harmful. If this were a civil suit, the burden of proof would have shifted . The gas companies would have to rebut the evidence and establish why this is safe. They will be unable to do that.

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Comment From: Meg sleeper

2/23/18 @ 7:52 AM

We are continuing to learn about the risks to the environment and ultimately our health posed by hydraulic fracturing. With the current pressures facing safe water supply and the Delaware river water shed, it is critical that we put these concerns fi...↓

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Comment From: Brita van Rossum

2/23/18 @ 4:16 AM

Please do not allow fracking in the Delaware River watershed. Fracking uses large quantities of toxic chemicals and pumps them in to the ground where they can contaminate ground water supplies and seep into streams and rivers. Fracking is noisy ...↓

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Comment From: Lake township supervisor (Timothy Jaggars)

2/23/18 @ 4:01 AM

Good Afternoon, I am Timothy Jaggars. I am a township supervisor of Lake Township one of the most populated townships in Wayne County. I am also a Director of the Wayne County Conservation District. I sit on the board of directors of the Wayne/Pike F...↓

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Comment From: EVANGELINE hoffman-lorah

2/23/18 @ 3:52 AM

There is nothing safe about fracking - from the process of drilling into the earth, to the injecting of chemicals and water under high pressure, to the radioactive wastewater produced, to the rupturing underground pipelines carrying gas. In no way s...↓

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Comment From: GJB Associates (Gail Brunner Brunner)

2/23/18 @ 3:27 AM

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Comment From: Corey McCray

2/23/18 @ 3:18 AM

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Comment From: Stephanie Eckert

2/23/18 @ 1:29 AM

Please remember that the entire non-tidal 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. To truly p...↓

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Comment From: Brittany Rogers

2/23/18 @ 1:13 AM

Dear Comments, 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 nation ...↓

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Comment From: Brittany Rogers

2/23/18 @ 1:11 AM

Dear Comments, 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 with...↓

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Comment From: Brittany Rogers

2/23/18 @ 1:09 AM

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Comment From: Brittany Rogers

2/23/18 @ 1:07 AM

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Comment From: Jennifer Miller

2/23/18 @ 12:53 AM

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Comment From: Don James

2/23/18 @ 12:46 AM

Dear Comments, 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 prior...↓

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Comment From: Scott Shawna

2/23/18 @ 12:28 AM

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Comment From: Anne Carroll

2/22/18 @ 9:37 PM

Please, no fracking or fracking waste water in any area of the Delaware Valley Basin. Thank you.

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Comment From: Star Hesse

2/22/18 @ 9:09 AM

2/22/18 Hydraulic fracturing and its byproducts are a predictable, preventable ecological disaster already adversely affecting many area of the United States. Fracking and associated activities pollute the environment, destroy natural resources and ...↓

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Comment From: Corey McCray

2/22/18 @ 8:26 AM

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Comment From: Lydia Garvey

2/22/18 @ 6:43 AM

I strongly support a COMPLETE fracking ban and Oppose draft gas regulations that would allow the toxic and radioactive wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed and allow water to be expor...↓

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Comment From: sandra ward

2/22/18 @ 6:08 AM

Dear Comments, 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 n...↓

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Comment From: roger smith

2/22/18 @ 3:04 AM

We need to make our case in support of a COMPLETE fracking ban and in opposition to draft gas regulations that would allow the toxic and radioactive wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Waters...↓

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Comment From: Jena Laske

2/22/18 @ 2:34 AM

Please do not all fracking waste water in the Delaware River Watershed. Please do not allow extraction companies to take our freshwater for extraction purposed. They water taken could never fully be treated as potable and humanity if facing a serious...↓

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Comment From: Jacalyn Dinhofer

2/22/18 @ 2:22 AM

Dear Madame/Sir: I am a NYC resident who has been opposed to fracking since I became informed about the toxic, destructive, irreversible damage it does to water, air, humans, wildlife, vegetation, local and distant environments. Dick Cheny's Hallibu...↓

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Comment From: Geoff Caldwell

2/22/18 @ 1:24 AM

It is ludicrous to propose banning of fracking in the Delaware basin, but to allow the dumping of fracked wastewater ( we know it contains benzine and god knows what else ) and to allow the frackers to use Delaware river water for fracking. This nons...↓

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Comment From: Marshall A. Boyler

2/22/18 @ 12:19 AM

It is well past time to ban all fracking - period. The harmful effects have been well documented and ignored by the very agency that is tasked with preservation of the Delaware River Basin. The big oil companies appear to own our government - not ...↓

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Comment From: tom harris

2/21/18 @ 10:24 PM

Stop fracking and start caring for the planet.

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Comment From: Jon Levin

2/21/18 @ 10:07 PM

A complete and permanent ban on natural gas drilling and fracking and all related activities (including wastewater processing and discharges from and water withdrawals for drilling and fracking operations) througho ut the Delaware River Wate...↓

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Comment From: Jeff Moore

2/21/18 @ 9:28 PM

Why would anyone want to use fracking fluids near our water supplies!!!!.....and the Unbridled land destruction !!!

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Comment From: rebecca koo

2/21/18 @ 5:32 PM

 There is a moratorium on all gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking), water withdrawals for and wastewater treatment and discharges from frack ing throughout the entire Delaware River Basin today, since 2010.  The moratorium was put ...↓

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Comment From: Janet Little

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Jeanne Cimorelli

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Jodi Roggie

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Joe Hoffman

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Karen Feridun

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Ling Tsou

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Lois Oleska

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Mark Lichty

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Mary Ellen Cronly

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Ned Fink

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Ned Heindel

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Nicole Jacobs

2/21/18 @ 5:00 PM

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