Posted on 01/04/2013 9:01:37 AM PST by neverdem
The natural gas drilling process known as fracking would not be a danger to public health in New York state so long as proper safeguards were put into place, according to a health department report that environmentalists fear could help lift a moratorium on the controversial technique.
(Reuters) - The natural gas drilling process known as fracking would not be a danger to public health in New York state so long as proper safeguards were put into place, according to a health department report that environmentalists fear could help lift a moratorium on the controversial technique.
Governor Andrew Cuomo is weighing the economic benefits of hydraulic fracturing - commonly known as fracking - against the environmental risks from a technology that could unlock a vast domestic energy supply but also one that environmentalists say pollutes groundwater and the air.
Potential hazards could be avoided by implementing precautions the state has identified, according to a February 2012 preliminary assessment from the New York State Department of Health that became widely reported in the media on Thursday.
"Significant adverse impacts on human health are not expected from routine HVHF," or high volume hydraulic fracturing, the document concluded.
Natural gas drilling in New York state could create $11.4 billion in economic output and raise $1.4 billion in state and local tax revenue, according to a July 2011 report from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank.
Fracking is the process of releasing natural gas and oil from rock deposits deep underground by fracturing shale formations with chemical-laced water and sand.
The release of the document came as Cuomo's government continued to deliberate whether to overturn a 4-year-old moratorium on fracking originally put in place to assess the effects of the drilling process...
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I read an article in our local paper that water well drillers use fracking techniques (though not with the same chemicals).
And so Science has spoken.
But on the other hand, you have a movie starring Matt Damon...
Gee, we’ve only been fracking since the 1940’s. How strange that they declare it safe today, flying in the face of an utter lack of actual harm after 70+ years.
Begging for regulation, which is, in the long run, often the same as banning.
YES !!!!
Let’s Go New York !!
You are correct. The NY DNR obviously failed to seek input from mr. damon. As most hollyweird folks, he is an expert on all things oily. Or any subject for that matter. Just think what an asset ben aflake or assley judd or other actors thinking (?) about running for office would be. They are SOOOOOOOO much smarter than us. If they weren’t how could people ensure they make millions of dollars? Apparently that is their affirmation of their intelligence. Right? Right?
Share the lead.
“I read an article in our local paper that water well drillers use fracking techniques (though not with the same chemicals).”
We “fracked” one of the wells at the water company I run. Did it about 20 years ago. The “fracking” agent was dynamite. We clean them with acid every 5 or 6 years now.
Did fire come out of your customers’ faucets?
Papa Mario’s bambino Andy will only ‘allow’ it when he learns how many votes he won’t lose if he ok’s it!
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Just smoke!
Actually, we pumped it over the side for a long time, to clear it back up.
Thanks neverdem.
The good news is that nobody is seeing the Matt Damon movie-it’s at $345,000 box office receipts.
So don’t worry unless Spongebob does an anti-fracking episode.
I live over “Marcellus Shale” 2-3 miles deep.
My neighbor can light his well water on fire with a match.
There has been NO DRILLING in this area for gas - the closest I know of is about 40 miles from me. Obvious, to anyone with a brain, the gas in my neighbor’s water has nothing to do with gas or oil drilling. Fools in NYState, though...
I believe that the the fracking alarmists take advantage of such examples as my neighbor’s to frighten people without any real evidence that gas drilling or oil drilling causes problems. Gas can and does occur naturally in many underground water sources.
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