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Gas Drilling

ADK has been hard at work making sure that the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is taking every precaution before allowing natural gas companies to proceed with a controversial new method for extracting natural gas called high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHHF). The comment period for the DEC’s draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impacts Statement (dSGEIS) and proposed regulations has ended. Now it is time to focus our efforts on convincing the Legislature to enact responsible legislation to prevent some of the potential negative consequences of this technology. Read more...

Here's an interesting video on the economics of fracking.

News

• Natural Gas Prices To Go Lower: Commodities Pro

• NY landowners plan to frack using liquid propane

• CU Denver study links fracking to higher concentrations of air pollutants

• Judge's ruling complicates hydrofracking issue in New York

• Drilling lawsuit could set precedent

• DEC revisits cost of shale drilling

• Gas-Fracking Chemicals Detected in Wyoming Aquifer, EPA Says

• Drilling Down: Fighting Over Oil and Gas Well Leases

• First federal probe into hydraulic fracturing and its effects on drinking water to begin

• Rush to drill for gas creates mortgage conflicts

• State acts to shield park from gas claims
• Science Lags as Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields

ADK Comments

• State Environmental Quality Review Act Requires Additional Comprehensive Environemntal Review Before Permitting Liquified Petroleum Gas (Propane) Fracturiing
• ADK Submits Extensive Written Comments on DEC's SGEIS on High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing
• ADK Submits Comments on the Delaware River Basin Commission's Draft Natural Gas Development Regulations
• Governor's Fracking Order Provides Time to Push for Needed Protections
• ADK Comments on EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study
• Master Plan Ensures Future Generations Will Enjoy Allegany State Park
• Park Preserve Status Needed to Protect Allegany State Park
• Press Release: DEC Decision Will Protect Catskills; NYC, Syracuse Water Supplies
• ADK comments on draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Marcellus Shale drilling
• ADK Working to Protect Allegany State Park from Gas Drilling
• ADK Comments on NYS Energy Plan
• Allegany State Park needs legal protection
• ADK Allegany Plan Testimony
• ADK Testimony on Proposed Gas Drilling of Marcellus Shale