Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: Michael LaMonda

1/30/18 @ 12:50 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: Ken Meiners

1/30/18 @ 12:48 AM

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Comment From: Michael LaMonda

1/30/18 @ 12:46 AM

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Comment From: Robert Anders

1/30/18 @ 12:44 AM

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Comment From: Peter Jacobson

1/30/18 @ 12:42 AM

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Comment From: Stanley Aucoin

1/30/18 @ 12:40 AM

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Comment From: Jon Wilkins

1/30/18 @ 12:39 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: Robert Drob

1/30/18 @ 12:37 AM

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Comment From: Mary Ann Hershey

1/30/18 @ 12:35 AM

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Comment From: Mon & Linda Bertolucci

1/30/18 @ 12:33 AM

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Comment From: Robert Anders

1/30/18 @ 12:31 AM

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Comment From: Dawn Chapdelaine

1/30/18 @ 12:30 AM

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Comment From: Richard Menius

1/30/18 @ 12:28 AM

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Comment From: Richard Menius

1/30/18 @ 12:25 AM

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Comment From: Philip Davis

1/30/18 @ 12:24 AM

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Comment From: Charles Cady

1/30/18 @ 12:22 AM

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1/30/18 @ 12:20 AM

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1/30/18 @ 12:15 AM

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Comment From: Ted Gramlich

1/30/18 @ 12:14 AM

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1/30/18 @ 12:10 AM

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1/30/18 @ 12:08 AM

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Comment From: Alan Rhoads

1/29/18 @ 11:49 PM

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Comment From: Maurice Huth

1/29/18 @ 11:38 PM

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Comment From: Sarah Caspar

1/29/18 @ 9:24 PM

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Comment From: Cynthia Kinsella

1/29/18 @ 5:07 PM

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Comment From: Cynthia Kinsella

1/29/18 @ 5:06 PM

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Comment From: Cynthia Kinsella

1/29/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Charles Elliott

1/29/18 @ 12:45 PM

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Comment From: Galen Evans

1/29/18 @ 12:29 PM

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: Kathleen Shea

1/29/18 @ 8:52 AM

To whom it may concern, Petroleum businesses will, of course, pitch all sorts of "advantageous" financial stats in order to sway public opinion and ultimately support their own corporate profitability. BUT THE HEALTH OF OUR WATER AND LAND IS PRIC...↓

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Comment From: Carol Armstrong

1/29/18 @ 8:39 AM

My comments are in support of the DRBC's moratorium on all gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and water withdrawals for waste water treatment as a result of fracking, and discharges from fracking throughout the Delaware River Basin. I am hopeful t...↓hat the DRBC will rule that these bans become permanent in order to help restore and conserve our beautiful, exceptional, Congressionally designated, National Wild and Scenic River, the Delaware, and the National Delaware Estuary because of their irreplaceable beauty, source of drinking water, and ecological productivity that earn them protections from commercial interests that threaten them despite regulations. Once water and the life within it is damaged, the balance cannot be restored or recovered. The DRBC has recognized that water withdrawals for volumes needed for fracking can adversely affect aquatic ecosystems, river channels, riparian resources, and wetlands. The entire nontidal Delaware River is protected by DRBC's Special Protection Waters regulations that state that the water quality cannot be diminished in any way, and we are dependent on the wisdom of the DRBC that led to these regulations. DRBC policy is being broken by permitting drilling and fracking, such as the importation of waste water into the Delaware Basin. Furthermore, drilling and fracking cannot be done safely or without environmental contamination. We have depended on dilution or sequestration of waste water for safety, but these methods only will and have resulted in slow and continuous decline in ground and surface water quality. The EPA documented that 70-90% o the water injected for fracking is permanently removed from the water cycle. Findings are that 80% t 90 % o water used in Marcellus and other sites is fresh water! And developing methods for fracking are requiring increasing volumes of fresh water. Remediation is a poor substitution for conservation, and there is no lack of support for conservation despite the political tendency to break regulations with variances for commercial development. There is a shift in social opinion, which is emerging most clearly in new generations of voters, that the values that come from environmental rights must not take second place to the values that come from commercial development. The risks for human health are major; the Concerned Health Professionals of New York, and the Physicians for Social Responsibility, reviewed at last count 685 peer-reviewed papers investigating gas drilling and/or hydraulic fracturing. The November 17, 2016, fourth edition of their review of this large body of studies, show that the great majority, and growing consensus, of scientific evidence is that the risks of this type of activity include earthquakes, adverse impacts on water, on air, on agriculture, on public health and safety, on property values, on climate stability, and on economic vitality. It is not a matter of individual reports, anecdotal evidence, or scientific predictions, but converging and confirming scientific conclusions. They "uncovered no evidence that fracking can be practiced in a manner that does not threaten human health". The long term and future effects are unknown because government resists and actually thwarts scientific inquiry especially about long-term risks. For example, the introduction of hundreds of new chemicals, most of which are not now and never investigated for effects on humans and ecology, is extremely concerning. There needs to be monitoring of the changes to water supplies in the hydrologic cycle, and an analysis of how water removal for fracking is affecting our water resources. As a citizen, the value of my tax dollars for scientific study with resulting knowledge about the health of our environment and everything it produces for both humanity and ecological diversity, is one of the most important contributions I can make to future generations. Carol Armstrong, Ph.D., 4023 Howell Road, Malvern, PA 610-408-9944 Neuropsychologist, scientist, health care provider Master Watershed Steward, volunteer with Stroud Water Research Center

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Comment From: John Dahl

1/29/18 @ 7:32 AM

The DRB is far too important a source of drinking water to permit fracking and wastewater disposal. Both should be banned in the DRB.

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Comment From: Beth Spindler

1/29/18 @ 6:07 AM

Our planet can't take much more. No fracking!

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Comment From: Joan Hudanish

1/29/18 @ 4:31 AM

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Comment From: DJ Gonzalez

1/29/18 @ 4:06 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 pr...↓

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Comment From: DJ Gonzalez

1/29/18 @ 4:05 AM

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Comment From: jo pa

1/29/18 @ 3:29 AM

please do the right thing you know in your hearts!

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Comment From: Lindsay Napolitano

1/29/18 @ 2:39 AM

As a resident of Kingwood Township NJ which is situated in the Delaware River Watershed, I strongly SUPPORT the banning of fracking. I strongly OPPOSE allowing fracking companies the rights to export our water for fracking elsewhere AND import toxic ...↓

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Comment From: Susan Yerry

1/29/18 @ 2:20 AM

Fracking is hazardous waste disposal and creates an unstable environment that is deleterious to all life. Do we never learn? We need no more proof that fracking is toxic for life. It is a no brainer. The environment is public health. Put peopl...↓

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Comment From: robert paul

1/29/18 @ 1:01 AM

fracking is dangerous and unnecessary in view of the fact that the us is an energy exporting country. we need to be able to drink the water from the river and fracking is dangerous. please don't allow it

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Comment From: John Rosenberger

1/28/18 @ 7:13 PM

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Comment From: Lini Kadaba

1/28/18 @ 6:21 PM

As the federal government under the Trump administration rolls back protections of the environment, it is up to states to protect the American people. Dumping contaminated fracking water in our sources of drinking water makes no sense. Extend the ban...↓

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Comment From: BOB HOWARD

1/28/18 @ 4:00 PM

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Comment From: Ita Jeanette Friedman Sieradski

1/28/18 @ 12:04 PM

I live with a well. I already have three consecutive filters on the house which filters out more filth and pollution than my filters in New Jersey ever did and they have to be changed MONTHLY. And you intend to poison us altogether. SO... No to frack...↓

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Comment From: Linda Zak

1/28/18 @ 11:10 AM

Water is Life. Protecting the purity of our fresh water is of ultimate importance. By allowing fracking near our rivers, we are inviting the polluting of our waterways by the release of fracking wastewater, whether deliberately or inadvertantly. I ...↓

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Comment From: Yvonne DeSmedt

1/28/18 @ 10:27 AM

I am against all forms of fracking. My 'vote' is to ban it altogether.

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Comment From: Doug Thornhill

1/28/18 @ 10:20 AM

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Comment From: Ralph Hylinski

1/28/18 @ 9:38 AM

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Comment From: Marguerite Ampel

1/28/18 @ 4:08 AM

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Comment From: Marguerite Ampel

1/28/18 @ 4:06 AM

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Comment From: Stephen Morris

1/27/18 @ 11:52 PM

Our poor earth. This planet-gift - raped, plundered, poisoned, exploited, ripped-off, squandered, wasted, despoiled, trashed.

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Comment From: Susan Green

1/27/18 @ 4:42 PM

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Comment From: Susan Green

1/27/18 @ 4:40 PM

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Comment From: Susan Green

1/27/18 @ 4:35 PM

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Comment From: Richard Dare

1/27/18 @ 3:38 PM

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Comment From: Richard Dare

1/27/18 @ 3:36 PM

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Comment From: Michael Petrie

1/27/18 @ 1:40 PM

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Comment From: Kenneth Smisor

1/27/18 @ 1:08 PM

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Comment From: Dana Daniels

1/27/18 @ 11:54 AM

Dear DRBC Commission and Governors, I am writing to urge a permanent and total ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. I have many concerns about water quality, public health, infrastructure damage, environmental damage and earthquake, all k...↓nown to be related to fracking. I have driven through many areas in central and western Pa where fracking is prevalent, and I have found the deterioration of the roadways to be deplorable. In the Dakotas, the prevalence of earthquake has dramatically increased as fracking has increased there. Also of concern, is the number of trucks that transport spoiled water, and no surveillance to insure they ARE actually transporting the water TO treatment facilities, and NOT dumping soiled water, or taking water out of waterways without approval. The 'experts' from the oil and gas industry who state that water quality is safe and has not been affected are failing to share a crucial and seminal fact. If the public has 'no right' to know exactly what 'proprietary' chemicals are being used in the liquid injection fracking process, then by extension there is no way to know exactly what chemicals to test for in wells or in downstream water. And similarly, there is no way to tell a physician what chemicals to test for when one becomes ill from drinking the 'safe' water. I have absolutely NO faith in the EPA or the current administration. The president ran on the promise to delete 20 regulations for every 1 regulation that is on the books. And, the cabinet secretary of this same department has incredibly sued the EPA many times. How sad it would be for so many, if you approved the fracking, only to have your best efforts totally undermined. Please listen to the many many individuals and average citizens who have expressed strong opposition to fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Our concern for clean air, clean water and a safe, unspoiled environment should be primary in your discussions. I do NOT feel that big business/big money should have a voice in this process, nor a seat at this table. I thank you for taking the time to read and consider this email, and the views of many others who live in the Delaware River Basin. Again, I appeal to you in the strongest possible terms, please place a permanent and total ban on fracking here. Respectfully, Dana Daniels New Hope, Pa.

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Comment From: Theodore Peyton

1/27/18 @ 10:48 AM

Please do not permit Fracking in the Delaware Basin area ; We must protect our drinking water source . I would plead that all fracking be outlawed in the State of Pennsylvania .

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Comment From: Craig Cady

1/27/18 @ 10:06 AM

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Comment From: Damascus Citizens for Sustaina... (Barbara Arrindell)

1/27/18 @ 9:59 AM

B. Arrindell - Director, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability And my family owns property in Pennsylvania. The DRBC is so correct to propose a protective ban on fracking in the Delaware Basin. It is wrong to propose allowing drilling wastes into th...↓e Basin or export of our precious water. The oil and 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. The industry has known for decades about their inability to prevent damages from the drilling and from their liquid and solid wastes— leading to their need to avoid liability for the damages they knew they would cause. TheIr solution was exemptions, first by making the wastes, 'special' via the Bentsen Amendment to the RCRA law in 1980 so that the wastes from oil and gas exploration and production are not tracked or manifested and needn't be disposed of as the toxic materials they actually are. Then after about 25 years of trying the industry got exemptions to major provisions of 7 protective environmental laws in the 2005 Energy Policy Act. The more I learned about the contents of and the potential impacts from these wastes the more alarmed I have become. DCS is actively involved with people and communities where drilling wastes are transported, and then disposed of, truck accidents, spills, damaging legal and illegal dumping all occur - they will verify that these are literally killer practices. They should not be inflicted on any community and certainly not in the DRB. If the DRBC was to allow the import of drilling wastes, then tge DRBC should eliminate the exemptions boosting that waste in the Delaware Basin and restore the liability due the companies doing the damaging dumping. Property rights do not include the right to pollute and contaminate - and regulatory constraints on property usage are not takings, but rather the obligation of government to protect health and safety. The DRB is not for sale to the highest bidder or as a favor to a business associate - it is our home and it is the DRBC's mandate to protect and preserve the Basin and its resources for current and future residents, human and otherwise. ATTACHED is a two page summary of the exemptions held by the oil and gas industry.

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Comment From: George and Ilse Sakheim

1/27/18 @ 9:35 AM

We oppose strongly that any water could be withdrawn by fracking as it makes no sense to forbid fracking and then allow this. We are not going to tell you in detail what has already been spelled out clearly - it absolutely defeats the original disal...↓

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Comment From: james whiteman

1/27/18 @ 8:17 AM

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Comment From: Wendy Shaver

1/27/18 @ 7:33 AM

As a resident of central Pennsylvania, I strongly believe that the potential hazards to our land brought about by fracking outweigh any financial benefit that may be gained through taxes, jobs, etc. Please continue the ban on fracking in the Delawar...↓

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Comment From: Deborah Dow

1/27/18 @ 5:51 AM

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Comment From: Ronald Amspacher

1/27/18 @ 4:58 AM

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Comment From: Stephen Cane

1/27/18 @ 4:44 AM

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Comment From: Barbara Andrew

1/27/18 @ 4:21 AM

Any hydraulic fracking in or near the Delaware River is abhorrent to me. The water used in fracking is forever gone, the instability often rendered to the land is not worth the resulting profits which remand to a few while the threat affects many. ...↓

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Comment From: Brock Cordeiro

1/27/18 @ 3:47 AM

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Comment From: Nancy Chismar

1/27/18 @ 3:36 AM

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Comment From: Shane Flanegan

1/27/18 @ 3:08 AM

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Comment From: Diana Heeman

1/27/18 @ 2:34 AM

It makes no sense to ban fracking but still allow the water to be used for other purposes. As far as waste water, why would anyone in their right mind want it. Probably in the future the states allowing fracking and the disposal of waste water will p...↓

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Comment From: John Caufman

1/27/18 @ 1:23 AM

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Comment From: CAROL GRIFFIN

1/27/18 @ 1:13 AM

Dear Comments, We support responsible energy development of natural gas and oil in all areas in the USA. This development is needed for total independence from outside sources. Independence allows us to make a more swift transition from fossil fu...↓

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Comment From: Bac Vu

1/26/18 @ 11:57 PM

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Comment From: Stanley Staich

1/26/18 @ 5:28 PM

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Comment From: Stanley Staich

1/26/18 @ 5:26 PM

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Comment From: Jack DeVience

1/26/18 @ 4:37 PM

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Comment From: Frank Short

1/26/18 @ 4:22 PM

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Comment From: phyllis dull

1/26/18 @ 12:06 PM

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Comment From: sheila steen

1/26/18 @ 11:59 AM

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Comment From: Robert Kehl

1/26/18 @ 11:50 AM

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Comment From: Amy Anderson

1/26/18 @ 11:04 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...↓logic cycle permanently. Wastewater from fracking contains toxic chemicals, many of which are secret, as well as cancer-causing radioactive elements brought to the surface from deep geological formations, elements which cannot be removed, and which last for thousands of years. As potable water becomes harder to come by in our world and even water considered "potable" is only questionably so, we need to protect our drinking water resources more than ever. To allow such infrastructure projects in the Delaware Basin or anywhere else means inevitable damage to an environment which is already compromised by many chemicals and adding to the 21st Century slew of health epidemics. It seems every time I turn around someone else I know has come down with a chronic illness or cancer; do we really want to disable and kill our citizens? In addition there have already been way too many spills as well as illegal dumping of toxic fracking wastewater, and even drilling wastewater used on produce farms in California without being adequately purified. Given all of the above, one begins to wonder if humans don't have a powerful subconscious death wish. If we care about the future of humanity and about our children's future, we cannot continue to mistreat the natural environment we are dependent upon for our survival, something which science will NEVER be able to replace or equal. We must stop removing toxic fossil fuels from the earth and ramp up all alternative energy efforts. Given the very REAL problem of climate change the situation is nothing less than URGENT; this is witnessed by the events of last autumn which included some of the worst hurricanes and wildfires in history. Anyone with a conscience is able to understand how important these issues are, and how drastic change is immanent if we are to survive into the future on Planet Earth. And thus it follows that we need a complete and permanent ban to safeguard the Delaware River's unique and invaluable watershed and thus the health of humans and other life dependent upon it.

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Comment From: Christian Bardo

1/26/18 @ 10:31 AM

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Comment From: Arline Soffian

1/26/18 @ 9:37 AM

Do you not know how important our environment is to life on this planet. If you don't you should leave, to where I don't know because as far as I know there isn't any place. I do know I want to stay here so get a grip. Lets do what we need to p...↓

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Comment From: Theresa Heinsler

1/26/18 @ 8:57 AM

Money is Power, but knowledge also empowers. Fracking, I believe, is a death knell, not just for DRB, but for oil industry itself. The largest profit-maker in US resorts to a very costly extraction method to produce a very low quality product. W...↓

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Comment From: Lynn Caporale

1/26/18 @ 8:21 AM

I was very distressed to hear that the disposal of wastewater from fracking is being considered as allowed within the Delaware River Basin. While I have many concerns, I would like to highlight two. 1) Water is our most precious resource. Wat...↓

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Comment From: Camille Fasanella

1/26/18 @ 7:01 AM

I am pleased to hear the DRBC (NY NJ PA DE) are all seriously considering a very intelligent move: a complete ban on all drilling and or Fracking in or around the Delaware river. This is wonderful news considering over 15 million people count on that...↓

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Comment From: Corinne Mayland

1/26/18 @ 5:00 AM

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Comment From: Wayne Hotaling

1/26/18 @ 4:43 AM

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Comment From: Heather Nelson

1/26/18 @ 3:19 AM

Please ban gas drilling and fracking and all its phases, including wastewater discharges and water withdrawals in the Delaware River Basin. We should not have to compromise our right to clean air and clean water.

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Comment From: Jeanne Wasman

1/26/18 @ 3:01 AM

Please completely and permanently ban natural gas drilling and fracking and all related activities throughout the Delaware river watershed. I can see clearly that the people who are in favor of fracking are, for the most part, motivated by the possi...↓

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Comment From: Lawrence Ashfal

1/26/18 @ 2:39 AM

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Comment From: Borough of Riegelsville (Sherry Masteller)

1/26/18 @ 2:27 AM

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Comment From: Lisa Gross

1/26/18 @ 12:27 AM

I urge you to vote against any phase of fracking to be introduced and allowed in the Delaware River or Delaware Basin. With the fracking fluid being proprietary information, we have no idea what chemicals are in the produced water. All phases of frac...↓

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Comment From: Richmond Petty

1/25/18 @ 5:30 PM

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Comment From: David Moretz

1/25/18 @ 3:25 PM

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Comment From: Lynn Levy

1/25/18 @ 3:19 PM

Fracking is an insane and destructive thing to do. I can't believe it's even necessary to explain this to you. It's been well documented and proven as to how toxic and dangerous it is to all life. To ruin our precious land and water is inexcusable an...↓

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Comment From: Bill Abbotoy

1/25/18 @ 2:48 PM

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