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Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition, Inc.
PO Box 484 - Bedford, New York 10506
(914) 234-6470
www.newyorkwater.org

 

Numerous states including Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, West Virginia and others have reported severe negative impacts from hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) for natural gas. These include pollution of local wells, aquifers and streams, air contamination, human and animal health deterioration, and ruination of farmland, forest, roads, sustainable industries, property values and economies.

The horizontal hydrofracking now being proposed for NYS's Marcellus and Utica Shales uses millions of gallons of fresh water per well laced with chemicals whose identity is protected under the "Halliburton Loophole." In 2005, this loophole stripped EPA of its authority to regulate hydrofracking and exempted gas and oil regulation from key federal acts, each of which critically needs to be rolled back.

During fracking, powerful explosive shattering of shale rock opens fissures to release the gas and dramatically increases the risk of aquifer contamination. There are no sewage treatment plants in NYS able to adequately treat the fracked waste water and no known method to restore it to potability; it is forever removed from our finite supply of fresh water.
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safe and advisable by scientifically reliable studies.

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withdrawal of the fatally flawed NYSDEC draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement because it does not adequately address many serious environmental issues and concerns.

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