Gas Drilling News and Resources
Otsego 2000 feels strongly that the draft New York DEC regulations governing horizontal hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells in Otsego County and elsewhere in New York pose unacceptable risks to our water, environment, agriculture, and infrastructure. They fail to safeguard our drinking water supplies, don’t take into account considerable seismic activity in our region, and don’t provide the necessary resources to local and county governments to prepare for the onslaught of heavy truck traffic, emergency response training, or wastewater treatment and disposal. Nor is there anything approaching adequate staff resources within the DEC to monitor the potentially high number of wells across New York State. In short, New York is not ready for high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus and Utica Shales. Otsego 2000 has been waging a campaign to educate state and local leaders as well as citizens on the many adverse and irreversible impacts that this method of natural gas drilling can have on our region.
Articles, Papers, and Documents About Gas Drilling:
Otsego 2000 responds to the 2011 dSGEIS - Otsego 2000 Comments on the Draft
Comments on the 2011 dSGEIS from towns and organizations
Comments on the 2011 dSGEIS from individuals
History Oil and Gas Well Abandonment in New York - Ron Bishop
A Community Conversation: Gas Drilling and the dSGEIS - Lou Allstadt and Ron Bishop speak with WSKG December 6, 2011.
Elisabeth Radow; New York State Bar Association Journal, November/December 2011
Paul Rubin, Hydroecologist, HydroQuest PA. November 15, 2011
David Slottje, Esq. October 17, 2011
Middlefield Neighbors, October 13, 2011
Ron Bishop, Ph.D, C.H.O; October 6, 2011
New York Water Rangers, October 6, 2011
By Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy: Robert Howarth, Ph.D. et al.
August 23,2011
by Harry Levine, Advocates for Springfield, August 15, 2011
By Nicole Dillingham, August 15, 2011
By Anne Marie Garti, August 1, 2011
By Anthony R. Ingraffea, Ph.D. P.E., July 25, 2011
By Helen Slottje, Esq. and David Slottje, Esq. July 25, 2011
By Karen Edelstein, Cornell University, www.fractracker.org, July 25, 2011
By L. W. Allstadt, July 25, 2011
By Douglas Zamelis, Esq. June 30, 2011
By Robert Feller, Esq.May 12, 2011
By Robert W. Howarth, Renee Santoro, Anthony Ingraffea
By GreenPlan Inc, May 2011
By Jessie Ravage, Historic Preservation Expert
By Nicole Dillingham
An article by Michelle Kennedy, Esq.
by Ron Bishop, SUNY Oneonta and Sustainable Otsego
Presentation by James "Chip" Northrup and Jeffrey Reynolds
A presentation by James "Chip" Northrup
a video by The Ecologist featuring interviews with Professor Tony Ingraffea, Lou Allstadt, and James "Chip" Northrup
by Nicole Dillingham on behalf of the Citizens Against Unsafe Gas Drilling
November 8, 2010
Horizontal Hydrofracking of Shale in New York
http://my.brainshark.com/Horizontal-Hydrofracking-of-Shale-Gas-in-New-York-162908032# is the link to the narrated version
by James L. “Chip” Northrup, October 21, 2010
The Facts about Shale Gas Drilling in New York State
by Professor Tony Ingraffea, Unatego, NY, October 6, 2010
by Nicole Dillingham, September 28, 2010
Form Letter: Withdraw the NYS DEC Draft SGEIS Governing Horizontal Hydrofracking
Radioactive Waste in Horizontal Hydrofracking
by James L. “Chip” Northrup, September 20, 2010
by Win McIntyre, April 2010
Comments on the Draft SGEIS Governing Hydrofracking and Gas Drilling
by Otsego Lake Watershed Supervisory Committee, October 2009
Potential Relationships Between Hydrofracking and Drinking Water Resources
by Dr. Ronald E. Bishop, September 2010
by James Northrup, September 2010
Comments on the Scope of the Proposed EPA Study of Hydraulic Fracturing
by Paul A. Rubin, September 2010
Cabot Oil & Gas Company fined by PA Department of Environmental Protection
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection recently fined Cabot Oil & Gas for violations on wells drilled in the Marcellus shale near Dimock, Pennsylvania. Of 62 wells drilled, Cabot was cited or fined on 32 of them, 8 of which polluted 10 local water wells. This indicates that there could be as much as a 52% probability of environmental damage for each shale gas well drilled, and a 13% probability of gassing a water well. In these instances, well casing failure was blamed for gassing the aquifer. Since these wells will be fracked multiple times to prolong their productive life, the odds of gassing the aquifer may increase each time they are fracked.
New York Regulations for Oil and Gas Compared to Other States
by James Northrup, July 2010
James Northrup on Hydrofracking and Aquifer Pollution via Faults
By Sustainable Otsego, August 2010, 27-minute video (for 4:45 minute video, click here)
by James Northrup, August 2010
Take the NO-LEASE PLEDGE as a landowner against unsafe gas drilling. This offers landowners the option of pledging not to sign a gas lease for so long as the proposed method of gas extraction known as hydrofracking poses a threat to drinking water, air quality and public health.
by Sustainable Otsego, August 2010
by Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr., July 2010