Environmental Protection Agency have called on the state to exempt the watershed from drilling, even as Chesapeake Energy CHK.N, the only gas company that holds leases in the watersheds, has said publicly it does not intend to drill there. From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are. This is despite the fracking revolution delivering record oil and gas production for the past decade, peaking in 2019. oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious financial blow. “We can’t let the gleam of potential profits leave us with a legacy of polluted water and industrialized landscapes,” said Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill Mountainkeeper. After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S. “This is America’s fuel, it’s America’s future.”Īt a competing rally organized by environmental groups, about 600 people - many of whom arrived by bus from New York City - said the industry was putting profits ahead of safety and waved signs reading “You Can’t Drink Money” and “Water: Our Best Resource.” “We’re the ones who own the land, we have to live on it, and we want to be able to use it for what we originally bought it for,” said Drew Griffin, a member of the pro-drilling Joint Landowners Coalition.
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New York Governor David Paterson, facing a $7.4 billion deficit, proposed opening the Marcellus Shale to hydraulic fracturing, in which a combination of chemicals, sand and water are blasted through rock to free trapped gas. The city watershed accounts for 6 percent of the shale area in New York state.
The city on Monday sought a permit from the state to acquire additional land to protect its watershed, an unfiltered source of drinking water for some 9 million people. But environmental concerns that drilling contaminates drinking water have created regulatory risk for the industry. He called fracked gas a transition fuel, and said that we want to go to all renewables, but that’s still many years from now. The Marcellus Shale formation underlying both states holds the promise of providing the United States with a valuable domestic energy source. In the latest televised Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night, Bloomberg said he wouldn’t go to war with China over its highest-in-the-world carbon emissions. Natural gas companies have created a drilling boom in Pennsylvania with a technique known as hydraulic fracturing and want to expand their operations into New York state. I do not think that we should allow fractured drilling anywhere near our water supply,” Bloomberg told reporters. “The consequences are so severe that it is not a risk that I think we should run.
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