Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: T Cepeda

2/06/18 @ 6:18 AM

Enact a Permanent Ban on Fracking I call for the state of New Jersey and the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to enact a permanent ban on drilling and fracking for oil and natural gas and all related activities in the Delaware River Watershed....↓

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Comment From: mark smith

2/06/18 @ 6:04 AM

I write to thank the Commissioners for extending the comment period. Also to urge the Commission to ban fracking and any and all related activities such as frack waste disposal or treatment from the Delaware River watershed. Additionally, I urge ...↓

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Comment From: Jeffrey Jenkins

2/06/18 @ 5:00 AM

I strongly urge to have a total ban on fracking through out the entire state. Studies show its dangerous and harmful effects on people and the environment.

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Comment From: Jeffrey Jenkins

2/06/18 @ 4:59 AM

I strongly urge to have a total ban on fracking through out the entire state. Studies show its dangerous and harmful effects on people and the environment.

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Comment From: Beverly Bradshaw

2/06/18 @ 2:21 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...↓

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Comment From: Roger Smith

2/06/18 @ 12:57 AM

I grew up in the watershed of the Delaware River and have seen great improvements in qater quality over my lifetime. The local streams are places I played as a child and watch birds as an adult. Natural gas extraction, directional drilling and hy...↓

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Comment From: Sharon Furlong

2/06/18 @ 12:49 AM

I am opposed to allowing any and all fracking related activities in the entire Delaware River Watershed area for the following reasons: 1-There are no totally safe technologies in this industry 2-There are no technologies developed as of the writ...↓ing of this comment that can tackle a leakage, spillage or any other kind of disaster 3-The entire watershed area is connected both above ground and beneath it, thus making an accident or "event" in one place a disaster in most other places since....water migrates 4-High volume fracking procedures crack apart underground formations that for millions of years also harbor contained substances such as radioactive substances that need to remain contained. These substances have already over the years, displayed a remarkable tendency to surge upwards in the fracking fluids when it returns to the surface. It also has illustrated that it too can shift when fracturing occurs. Half lives of these radioactive substances measure in the thousands. 4-the vast majority of the fracking fluids contain chemicals that are secret due to their status as "propriety". the ones that have been made public are major environmental and human health destroyers. this includes bromides, toluene and benzene, VOC's,xylene, sulfates and eventually, heavy metals. and that list is not all inclusive. none of these substances are benign. indeed, they are downright dangerous. 5-Health issues abound in areas undergoing fracking activities...with more and more reports coming out monthly. Health studies recently done by Duke University indicate health issues ranging from upper respiratory distress, to increase in asthma, to increasing low birth weight of babies. we have enough health problems already that our overloaded and getting to be un-accessible again healthcare system will not be able to handle. 6-and speaking about overloaded and unable to cope: try our old and small water treatment plants.....built many years ago and for a smaller population of people, its methods have not been updated to include SECRET chemicals in large volumes of fracking wasterwater. if in excessive rainfall conditions many of these plants end up discharging improperly or incomplete "treated" waters, they will be constantly unable to work even remotely efficiently....thus creating another set of problems. and we cannot predict this because these chemicals are SECRET, and the volumes of water that might be presented for treatment is increasing by the millions of gallons 7-i have always had a problem with an industry that cannot deal with its garbage. this industry takes millions of gallons of water that is vital to all of life, contaminates it irrevocably and wants to leave it for the rest of the nation, the world and the ages to deal with. this is irresponsible, amoral, unethical and downright wrong. as the protectors of our waters, it is your responsibility to insure that this venal, short sighted, obsessed industry does not destroy the Delaware River Watershed/Basin area for profits...or indeed, for anything. 8-truck traffic to serve wellpads and fracking events number in the thousands per pad. this destroys local infrastructure, roads, and even communities. this traffic occurs 24/7. it generates noise, dirt, air pollution, untenable traffic, potholes, increasing psychological stress for local inhabitants....with no relief. and once the fracking event is over, local stress continues with continual noise from wellpads, additional truck traffic, and no one around to help solve problems if and when they occur. does this sound sane to you? only in the world of unbridled profits, shareholder dreams, amongst people who have convinced themselves that their industry is safe, totally able to handle all problems both now and in the future, and politicians who are paid by this industry to look the other way as people, communities, lands, entire ecosystems are sacrificed...and in this case, possibly forever. this needs to be stopped. creating rules that you cannot enforce nor even write sufficiently because so much is secret is a fool's chore. as a matter of fact, it is actually opening the door to this industry and letting it do whatever it wants. if you think that you can contain them, when this industry has flouted rules, regs and even laws and just does what it wants, when and where it wants (as in the building of pipelines without permits, the destruction of people's lands, the trees that they use for their livelihood without permits for pipelines never built, improper and illegal discharges directly in streams, etc. etc etc....) you are delusional. no one can contain this industry. do not try. do not continue the arrogance that has led you to thinking you can and so promulgate these misguided regulations. stop this now. act as your own history demands.....say no to the insanity. thank you

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Comment From: Camilla Lee

2/06/18 @ 12:37 AM

Please call for a complete ban of fracking activities, including not allowing the dumping of fracking waste or taking water for fracking activities elsewhere. WE must protect the drinking water for 17 million people. Dumping fracking wastewater is ...↓

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Comment From: Rosemary Frain

2/05/18 @ 10:39 PM

As a Bucks County, Pennsylvania resident, I feel very strongly about the need for a complete fracking ban recommendation from the DRBC . Also, for no water to be taken out of our beautiful Delaware River or for any discharges into it, from fracking ...↓

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Comment From: Jane Wiegand

2/05/18 @ 3:13 PM

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Comment From: Christopher Vickery

2/05/18 @ 1:37 PM

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. Property owners's rights mus...↓t be respected, but only insofar as the exercise of those rights does not negatively impact the rights of others. At this time there remain serious questions about the use of fracking to extract natural gas deposits. Some of those questions are due to secrecy, as drilling companies withhold information about the nature of the liquids they use during fracking operations. Some of those questions are based on evidence, such as the apparent increase in earthquake activity in fracking zones. Other questions are simply intuitive uncertainties with lack of evidence one way or another, such as concerns about the reliability of the linings used to hold fracking fluid ponds or the concrete linings designed to preserve the integrity of aquifers penetrated during drilling operations. Sometimes "not enough information" is used as a smokescreen to impede regulation of existing practices. The tobacco industry used this tactic to delay or deflect the release of available evidence that their products are detrimental to people's health. In that case the evidence was there, but suppressed. But sometimes "not enough information" really means "not enough information!" The DRBC's notice of proposed rule changes correctly notes the uncertainty associated with fracking at this time: there is not enough valid and reliable information available to be sure that fracking will not impact regional aquifers negatively or even catastrophically. Given that the consequences of a wrong decision could have such a large negative impact on public health, the DRBC is correct to proceed with extreme conservatism on the issue. It is correct and proper for the DRBC to prohibit fracking in the Delaware River Valley. It might also be appropriate to revisit this prohibition at such time as enough creditable evidence has been obtained to warrant reconsideration. However, until research methodology can be developed and executed to show definitive integrity of aquifers in fracking regions, the DRBC is correct to issue a permanent ban on the practice. The underground water rights and associated health rights of millions of people in the region trump the surface-land rights of thousands of property owners.

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Comment From: Kelley Calder

2/05/18 @ 11:26 AM

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Comment From: CraigCra0 Crim

2/05/18 @ 10:41 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 natio...↓

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Comment From: CraigCra0 Crim

2/05/18 @ 10:39 AM

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Comment From: CraigCra0 Crim

2/05/18 @ 10:38 AM

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Comment From: CraigCra0 Crim

2/05/18 @ 10:36 AM

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Comment From: John Lewis

2/05/18 @ 9:00 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 ...↓

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Comment From: donna barney-kotchman

2/05/18 @ 8:52 AM

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Comment From: donna barney-kotchman

2/05/18 @ 8:51 AM

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Comment From: donna barney-kotchman

2/05/18 @ 8:48 AM

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Comment From: Judy Books

2/05/18 @ 7:20 AM

I applaud the efforts made thus far to reduce the impact of fracking as it may occur within the Delaware Water Basin area. However, I feel the present laws do not go far enough. We need to prevent any fracking related activity in this region, regardl...↓

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Comment From: Nora Nash

2/05/18 @ 4:17 AM

Thank you for this opportunity to submit comments.

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Comment From: Bucks Environmental Action; Bu... (Sharon Furlong)

2/05/18 @ 4:16 AM

Today i wish to speak about water. We seem to take water for granted, here in the wet northeast of the country. But i have walked where there is no water, places where water can kill you if there is a sudden storm. where suddenly it disappears int...↓o the ground, only to reappear a short distance away. Where water looks pristine but is dangerous to drink because it is befouled. And where it glows strange and unnatural colors because of acid leaching coming from long abandoned mines where companies were allowed to walk away from their responsibilities....and our government let them. Just let them walk. Water is magical because Water is Life. You are the Protectors of Water and in being so, you are the Protectors of the lands, the plants, the trees, and the beings both in water and nearby the waters of this amazing, special, free flowing Delaware River and all of the tributaries that feed it. Therefore, how can there even be a hint of a proposal to abandon this significant role of Protector and open up this intricate system that so mimics the arteries, veins and capillaries of our own bodies, to the possibility of being the catch all of polluted, contaminated fracked water? Water that would then be filled with horrible chemicals whose names are long and frightening like trihalomethane; with radionuclides such as uranium, radium and radon; and bromides that have lain buried deep in the earth, flushed out with the contaminated water after being cracked wide open and so become introduced to an environment that it will surely kill....... How can this Commission even consider allowing such a toxic brew to come close when most of the components of this ugly water are unknown..... when we don't even know their names? and how does one figure it can be treated safely and completely when what it even is, EXACTLY... is a secret? Why are you willing to take this risk? YOU stand between an industry devoted to profits, unimpeded growth and shareholder happiness...... and ALL OF US. Companies come and go, but the Water remains....and so does our need of it because without it, we... all... die. This industry has not proven itself to be forthcoming, transparent, responsible, careful. this industry has violated the law, has overlooked and tried to hide leakages, problems, discharges, flaws, lies. It has thumbed its nose at regulations, has run roughshod over individual and community rights, and has paid off and overrun, in many fashions, representatives who are in similar positions of being the protectors of people and communities. and now, shall we add protectors of entire ecosystems?? Shall this Commission give up the grand vision created over 56 years ago, the grand purpose, the moral, legal, scientific and social high ground and cave in to the pressures of an industry that wants something from you, from all of us, and is used to getting its way....one way or the other? Or will you be true to your heritage of being the first and most powerful of the Commissions of this nature, and stand against this modern day Goliath and what it wants....because what it wants is to do what it pleases with our Water, our Lands, our Lives?? Who do you stand for?? Who do you stand with?? What do you want your legacy to be?? This was the second speech i gave, although being only allowed two minutes, i had to truncate....at the afternoon session in Philadelphia.

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Comment From: Sharon Furlong

2/05/18 @ 4:14 AM

In 1961, before there was an EPA, the DRBC came into being. It's ambitious goal: to bring a fouled and dying Delaware River back to life. It proceeded to do just that. A partial list of accomplishments, many of them firsts in the nation, over the ye...↓ars, included: - pioneering, comprehensive water quality standards, done nowhere else and, a year later, regulations for implementation again, done nowhere else in the u.s. - instituted an administrative procedure to settle water disputes -published the first recreational maps, thus helping to further facilitate a large recreational pastime and industry - construction of reservoirs such as at Beltzville which help to stabilize streams and enhance quality - adoption of rules, programs and regulations that pioneered water conservation - the mapping of flood plains - working towards the designation of parts of the river to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers federal program (which DRBC helped to draft), and later, designation of waters in the Lower Delaware as Significant Resource Waters, part of the Special Waters Protection Program....which, in 2008, was amended to include the entire 197 miles of the non tidal Delaware River - stopped the destructive Tocks Island Dam project - adopted regulations governing discharge of toxic pollutants from wastewater treatment plants - implemented regulations to protect limited ground water resources in portions of Pennsylvania, especially in emergency situations - undertook research and created policies and rules regarding stabilization of flow in order to safeguard aquatic ecosystems throughout the Basin, an emphasis done rarely in the U.S. at the time - wrote the rules to establish pollutant minimization standards and plan requirements concerning discharges of PCB's into the Basin And there is more, but i don't have the time to fully outline and applaud the very long and amazing history of this Commission and its work to clean and preserve a River, all its tributaries, its surrounding lands and the incredible and vibrant habitats both on land and in the waters. Suffice it to say that without this Commission, this River would remain the polluted dumping ground of garbage and dangerous toxins. I invite anyone to go onto the website of the DRBC to look at the history for themselves. so this question i have, and it is the question of all people here today and for those of like mind who are not present, becomes even more incredulous in light of this history: How can this Commission even begin to think about doing an about face on its own mission, its own rules, its own goals and allow activities related to the highly destructive hydrofracturing process to occur anywhere even remotely close to the lands and waters that you pulled from the depths of pollution, cancer and death? How do you explain this?? This was my speech made at the afternoon session at Waymart, Pennsylvania on behalf of Bucks Environmental Action and Bucks County Sierra Club.

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Comment From: Marie Haines

2/05/18 @ 4:10 AM

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Comment From: Mina Peterson

2/05/18 @ 4:08 AM

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Comment From: DonnaMay Hernandez

2/05/18 @ 1:43 AM

I disagree with the proposed rules being drafted by this commission concerning gas drilling. The commission is taking a one sided approach of fear on this issue and doesn't look at the whole picture of why the process is even done. We as a society ne...↓

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Comment From: william o'neill

2/05/18 @ 12:59 AM

clean water is more important than dirty oil. fracking does pollute groundwater. please don't allow fracking in Delaware River Basin.

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Comment From: Mark Fallon

2/05/18 @ 12:52 AM

I support a permanent ban on fracking in the Delaware River Watershed. This ban would protect health of the 15 million people who drink water originating in the Delaware Basin, as well as keeping at least one more source of pollution and disturbance ...↓

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Comment From: Craig Angelini

2/05/18 @ 12:48 AM

I am a landowner in Wayne county, and my family has owned land in upstate PA for the past 40 years. In addition, I am an environmental science teacher/professor. I believe that landowner rights need to be valued, and this issue challenges the fou...↓ndation US Citizenship. A landowner is contractually obligated to the rights of their deed. It is not lawful for the government to supersede those rights without individual environmental impact analysis being conducted and determined for each hydraulic fracking project proposal. There should not be a zero tolerance policy. The best available science should be used to evaluate the environmental impacts of each fracking project on a case by case basis. If a project cannot be scientifically "proven" that there is a significant probability of damage to a common resource, such as water, than landowners should be allowed to pursue economic gains from their resources in accordance with the clean water act, safe drinking water act, and all other applicable laws. A blanket, zero tolerance ban on natural gas exploration (or any privately owned resource) that is generating billions of dollars globally; without solid scientific evidence of significant harm to the watershed, is both discriminatory of residents in a specified geographic location, and in opposition with US land ownership rights. It is unlawful to ban fracking in a single location, and allow it in other locations, without substantial scientific evidence that each and every fracking project in that region has been proven a threat to the Delaware River Watershed. In addition, it is foolhardy to examine this issue in isolation without proper cost/benefit analysis being given to every energy source material available. It would be great if there was an energy that met our needs and had no environmental downside. However, every energy technology to scale has pro's and con's that need to scientifically weighed and accounted for in this discussion. All fracking projects should undergo an individual environmental impact assessment. Each project should be allowed if all environmental laws are satisfied. If a project is considered and scientifically determined a significant threat to the environment, recommendations should be made for compliance. If the interested party is able to meet the environmental impact assessment requirements, fracking should be allowed to take place and be strictly monitored. Please don't allow politics and greed to cloud the issue. Science should govern this process.

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Comment From: Cathy Pregmon

2/05/18 @ 12:34 AM

The moratorium on fracking continuing is a very good thing; however leaving "dubious" or "open to interpretation" language in the proposed new regulations is short-sighted and not desirable. Banning fracking in the Delaware River Basin is commendable...↓

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Comment From: Robert Emrich

2/04/18 @ 11:54 PM

While limitations on fracking is to be applauded, the fact is that any fracking results in pollution and a degradation of the water quality. The mission is to protect the quality of water - to protect the Delaware River Basin. The chemicals used, s...↓

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Comment From: Keith Childress

2/04/18 @ 11:47 PM

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Comment From: David Carr

2/04/18 @ 9:39 PM

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Comment From: Ronald Wentworth

2/04/18 @ 7:57 PM

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Comment From: Ellen Gachesa

2/04/18 @ 1:39 PM

I support protecting waterways all over the country from fracking. How much more unhabitable does the planet need to become before the stupid human race GETS IT. We are destroying the Earth. And the commission's noise about allowing fracking waste to...↓

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Comment From: Sharon Larson

2/04/18 @ 1:36 PM

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Comment From: Dwight Bakker

2/04/18 @ 1:14 PM

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Comment From: Lucette Jardin

2/04/18 @ 1:12 PM

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Comment From: lydia garvey

2/04/18 @ 10:04 AM

I strongly urge you to Nix fracking! Do your job- Protect Our lands, waters, health, wildlife & future! Your work for Citizens-Not industry! Your attention to this most urgent matter would be much appreciated by all present & future generations of al...↓

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Comment From: sally magaziner

2/04/18 @ 9:53 AM

We live in a beautiful state and have been given many lovely natural gifts to feel grateful about. Hydraulic Fracturing is not natural - it's destructive and ruins our clean water and heaven only knows what else we are destroying. We need to follow...↓

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Comment From: jeffrey jable

2/04/18 @ 9:43 AM

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Comment From: Ann Dixon

2/04/18 @ 9:43 AM

The Delaware River should remain free of fracking waste because more and more drinking water is being polluted by the fracking industry.

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Comment From: George Dempsie

2/04/18 @ 9:09 AM

As a citizen of Pennsylvania, I am writing to the Delaware River Basin Commission to encourage you to ban fracking in your watershed. It is alarming to think of the repercussions when (and I don't say "if" because I know it happens) the wastewater ...↓

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Comment From: Sharon Slickis

2/04/18 @ 8:32 AM

I am against fracking in and around the Delaware river. Human error historically has proven to never be flawless. Therefore jeopardizing our ecosystem and water quality is completely out of the question. Other earth friendly power sources should be ...↓

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Comment From: Colleen Wysser - Martin

2/04/18 @ 8:11 AM

Dear Sir/Madam, The Commissioners are planning to consider regulations that would allow fracking waste to be imported and processed in the basin and water to be extracted for fracking up someone else's community. The entire nontidal Delaware Ri...↓ver is protected by the Delaware River Basin Commission's Special Protection Waters regulations that do not allow water quality to be degraded. We are dependent on that protection to keep our water safe. Fracking and the discharge of wastewater produced by fracking will degrade the water quality of the river as pollutants are released. Toxic, hazardous and radioactive materials will build up over time in the water, sediments, and aquatic life and spills, leaks, and catastrophic events will add pollution, degrading water quality, habitats, and downstream water supplies. The natural gas and oil industry has received unprecedented exemptions from our nation's most important environmental and public health laws, including portions of: Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Safe Drinking Water Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (the Superfund Law); and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. These exemptions allow pollution to occur through loopholes and reduce the controls of how hazardous materials from fracking must be disposed of. This exposes the Delaware River Watershed to adverse impacts that would degrade water quality and contaminate water supplies of up to 17 million people. Fracking fluids can migrate from the fracked well to aquifers, contaminating water. This would harm the water resources of the Delaware River Watershed because people draw well water from aquifers and because the river is dependent on high quality groundwater to supply healthy base flow to its streams that feed downstream water supplies. "The process of injecting fluids into and fracturing the shale causes the 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. A full fracking ban in the Basin which includes waste processing and water extraction is the only right decision!

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Comment From: Ashley DeNegre

2/04/18 @ 7:49 AM

Fracking has been determined to be detrimental to the environment. I support a permanent ban on this practice.

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Comment From: Chair, Friends of Pyramid Moun... (Mary Derstine )

2/04/18 @ 7:07 AM

We are all so very concerned about fracking and quality of clean water for drinking, recreation and wildlife to just mention a few important reasons to protect precious water resources. Fracking should never be allowed.

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Comment From: Pamela Patton

2/04/18 @ 7:03 AM

I strongly support the ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin and am heartened to see a proposed ban on drilling in the area. Please take this one step further and ban the use of DRB water in fracking at other sites and the dumping of fracking w...↓

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Comment From: Diann Sherwin

2/04/18 @ 6:53 AM

I am writing in support of a complete ban on fracking and its waste. The process is terribly destructive to the environment, and even participation in the processing of the waste encourages and enables the practice. Please do not allow any part of ...↓

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Comment From: Vonda Ioan

2/04/18 @ 6:49 AM

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Comment From: Michael Gallagher

2/04/18 @ 5:40 AM

I think that before the DRBC allows any fracking, or products of fracking, the energy companies involved should disclose what chemicals (and what concentrations) are in the water that they dump in the water shed. I think they should be forced to dri...↓

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Comment From: Joan Schwartz

2/04/18 @ 5:30 AM

I urge you to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing because of its impact on the quality of our air and drinking water supplies. The dangers are real. Please vote for common sense and not the almighty dollar. Clean water is our greatest resource....↓

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Comment From: Mike Gibbons

2/04/18 @ 5:19 AM

Dear sirs, When taking up Special Regulations Part 440 Fracking, Please take the health and well being of residence of the surrounding area and future of the generations to come. Do we need this so badly as to risk the future? Why even take the risk...↓

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Comment From: Joseph Quirk

2/04/18 @ 5:19 AM

There needs to be a full fracking ban in the basin. Fracking pollutes water, even when the operations are regulated. If allowed in the Delaware River Watershed, up to 17 million people's water would be at risk. Pennsylvania Department of Environmenta...↓

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Comment From: Michael&Donna Gibbons

2/04/18 @ 5:13 AM

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Comment From: Keith Said

2/04/18 @ 5:11 AM

It is inconsistent to ban the drilling part of fracking and at the same time to propose regulations that would permit water withdrawals and wastewater disposal related to fracking outside of the Basin. Water used in fracking is taken out of the hydro...↓

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Comment From: Ruby George

2/04/18 @ 5:08 AM

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Comment From: Ruby George

2/04/18 @ 5:06 AM

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Comment From: Val Page

2/04/18 @ 4:57 AM

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Comment From: Andrea Csaszar

2/04/18 @ 4:08 AM

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Comment From: Eileen Collado

2/04/18 @ 2:41 AM

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Comment From: Roy Ohrberg

2/04/18 @ 2:21 AM

Having been on the Delaware river for 62 years and watched the love the people have for such a clean beautiful river Every effort to keep it natural must be made. Ban Fracking in the Delaware River Valley.

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Comment From: Sandra Folzer

2/04/18 @ 2:00 AM

Please don't allow our precious water to be contaminated by fossil fuel wastewater. We all know it is full of toxic chemicals which would end up in our drinking water. I don't want my children and grandchildren to be exposed to these poisons. Also...↓

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Comment From: John Sutliff

2/04/18 @ 1:38 AM

Shame on you for pretending to listen to oral comments and read written comments when the "fix" is already in. The governors of NJ and PA have already made it known that they favor a total ban. To think that the DRBC staff full of anti fossil fuel ...↓

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Comment From: Betty Sutliff

2/04/18 @ 1:28 AM

I am a lifelong resident of Damascus Township, third generation on my family's farm. 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 ...↓

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Comment From: Kristine Noonan

2/03/18 @ 11:53 PM

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 econ...↓

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Comment From: David Weiser

2/03/18 @ 11:39 PM

I am very pleased that the DRBC has resisted the push for fracking. Fracking is dangerous to our water supplies and our health. Please push back against the industry and political pressure to allow fracking, the taking of water to be used for frackin...↓

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Comment From: Douglas DeLong

2/03/18 @ 10:42 PM

Concerned about quality of water for trout habitat in the Delaware watershed

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Comment From: Patricia Matteson

2/03/18 @ 9:05 PM

I can't believe that you will even consider regulations that would allow fracking waste to be imported and processed in the Delaware River Basin and, on top of that egregious process, allow water to be extracted for fracking up someone else's [ANYONE...↓

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Comment From: Jeffrey Popek

2/03/18 @ 7:08 PM

The fracking industry has used money and legal contracts to silence those whose water has been polluted by fracking practices. The fracking industry uses loopholes in laws to dispose of fracking waste water in ways that cause imminent danger to the p...↓

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Comment From: Ellen Lebowitz

2/03/18 @ 3:01 PM

I am opposed to and appalled by the proposal to bring fracking waste in and take water out of our watershed. We've got the first part right: a ban on fracking. Let's not contaminate this one very wise decision with two really foolish ones. No frackin...↓

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Comment From: Barbara Bell-Hawkey

2/03/18 @ 1:56 PM

The only reasonable solution to this issue is a COMPLETE and TOTAL BAN on all fracking. Our continued dependence on fossil fuels will kill us all if we don't immediately change how we get and use our energy. All of our time and resources must be focu...↓

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Comment From: Jon Walters

2/03/18 @ 1:53 PM

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Comment From: Mark Thompson

2/03/18 @ 1:43 PM

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Comment From: Bob Carter

2/03/18 @ 1:32 PM

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Comment From: Bob Carter

2/03/18 @ 1:30 PM

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Comment From: Margaret Goodman

2/03/18 @ 1:21 PM

This is to urge you to protect the water of the Delaware River Basin. Fracking water is hopelessly polluted with radioactivity and should not be processed anywhere near the Delaware River basin. Fracking waste has all kinds of carcinogenic chemicals...↓

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Comment From: Linda Beck

2/03/18 @ 12:59 PM

I support a full fracking ban!

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Comment From: David Dow

2/03/18 @ 12:51 PM

When I was a co-op student at Drexel University, I participated Delaware River Estuary Comprehensive study which focused on water pollution between Philadelphia and Wilmington, De. The upper river was pure and had excellent water quality/provided h...↓

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Comment From: Lois Denaut

2/03/18 @ 12:10 PM

Is fracking safe? No. Fracking, as currently practiced across the United States, poses serious risks to the health and safety of communities and the environment. Water supplies across the country have been contaminated by fracking. There have been ...↓

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Comment From: Lynn Cascio

2/03/18 @ 12:05 PM

So, what is it that you people do not get about relying on fossil fuels when A) they contribute to the degradation of our climate and B) they will run out SOON? Oh, I forgot, the corporate masters are the ones who decide.

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Comment From: Michael Ungar

2/03/18 @ 12:01 PM

Until fracking technology can be substantially improved and then actually proven to be be 100 percent harmless to ground water, fissure integrity and general safety of the grounds above .below and adjacent to the site, Fracking should be BANNED! We a...↓

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Comment From: jerry orr

2/03/18 @ 11:50 AM

fracking is a mortal threat to all forms life---any one who supports it should be required to live near a fracking facility

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Comment From: Melissa VerDuin

2/03/18 @ 11:34 AM

1119 Cora St NW NO MORE FRACKING OR DRILLING!

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Comment From: Christopher S. Minich

2/03/18 @ 10:59 AM

I am against discharging waste water from any shale fracking processes into the mainstream of any water shed or aquifer period

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Comment From: Peter Hamerslag

2/03/18 @ 10:58 AM

I have been canoeing on the Delaware River since I was nine years old, and I'm 70 now. I've paddled from Calicoon to the Water Gap. I've also seen and been on the river in various spots such as Lambertville, New Hope, Trenton, Camden, Philadelphia ...↓

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Comment From: walt garvin

2/03/18 @ 10:27 AM

Please ban Fracking in the Delaware River Basin. This watershed is too valuable and important as a resource to chance it's destruction. Please ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin.

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Comment From: marilyn kobik

2/03/18 @ 10:26 AM

Please do not allow fracking and/or the importing of fracking waste products in any projects in the Delaware River Valley Watershed. Fracking has become a source of environmental degradation in other parts of the country i.e. Colorado, Ohio. Fracki...↓

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Comment From: Karan Lockerby

2/03/18 @ 10:12 AM

We have done enough destruction to this planet we have towns and cities that can't even drink their own water without boiling it first fracking is not the answer and neither was Cole we need to go clean energy for this planet to get driving

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Comment From: Mark Buynak

2/03/18 @ 9:14 AM

A complete ban on natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin is a discriminatory overreach by a committee of unelected officials. How can three of the same individuals who sit on the DRBC vote the exact opposite when they sit on the SRBC? Bo...↓

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Comment From: Paul David

2/03/18 @ 9:12 AM

At this time the harm to the environment caused by fracking is well documented. It is surprising that anyone would be considering the continuation of this type of fossil fuel extraction. Let's move forward with clean renewable energy rather than back...↓

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Comment From: doug anderson

2/03/18 @ 7:56 AM

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Comment From: Kyle and Laurie Brown

2/03/18 @ 6:56 AM

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Comment From: Sondra Moore

2/03/18 @ 6:18 AM

The Delaware River provides drinking water to about 15 million people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. While prohibiting fracking in areas adjacent to the river is an important step, it is also paramount to prohibit transport of w...↓

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Comment From: Thomas J. Stein

2/03/18 @ 4:08 AM

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Comment From: Val Sanchez

2/03/18 @ 1:40 AM

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Comment From: Bobby Currier

2/03/18 @ 1:24 AM

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Comment From: Bobby Currier

2/03/18 @ 1:22 AM

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Comment From: Evelyn Haas

2/03/18 @ 1:08 AM

Ban fracking in the Delaware River watershed.

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