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Don’t let Governor Paterson and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Grannis short change New Yorkers out of how we regulate industrial natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation. 

 

Dear Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Members and Supporters,   Don’t let Governor Paterson and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Grannis short change New Yorkers out of how we regulate industrial natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation.   

Natural gas companies are chomping at the bit to start industrial drilling in Marcellus Shale, which includes the Southern Tier and Catskills regions.  But the study of this new frontier of gas development is far from complete. Please Call (518) 474-8390 and ask the Governor and the DEC for a 90-day public comment period on a draft guide for drilling regulations.

New Yorkers need time to weigh in on this critical issue. Any day now the DEC will release its guide for regulating drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation. This guide—formally known as the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement—will determine how well (or not) New York regulates this potentially dangerous industry.

Across the border in Pennsylvania, we have seen a regulate-as-you-drill approach that has lead to water contamination, unacceptable air pollution, and a DEP scrambling to implement short-term solutions to long-term problems.  New York State cannot afford to make the same mistakes. A 90 day public comment period and hearings in the Southern Tier, Catskills, Albany and New York City, will give the DEC the proper perspective in moving forward with the SGEIS.  

Thousands of citizens participated in the draft scope and they deserve every opportunity to comment on what we presume to be a voluminous document.  Please act now to make the most out of this process.  

Thank you, Roger Downs Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter 353 Hamilton Street Albany, NY 12210 (518) 426-9144

 

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