Supervisors to attend state gas drilling hearing
NORWICH – Chenango County officials may have the opportunity to speak about the environmental impact of natural gas and oil drilling at a public hearing tomorrow morning in Albany.
The New York State Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee hearing will examine the environmental protections needed in the Department of Environmental Conservation’s new natural gas and oil drilling regulations. The demand for the estimated $1 trillion worth of natural gas reserves in New York’s portion of the Marcellus shale formation has led to increased and robust exploration and drilling.
Supervisors James B. Bays, D-Smyrna, and Peter C. Flanagan, D-Preston, will attend and, if asked, provide testimony. The two prepared for the upcoming hearing at a meeting of the county’s special natural gas committee last week.
Some items Bays and Flanagan intend to recommend are: closed loop drilling to reduce water use, a tracking system for drilling refuse haulers that are rejected at treatment plants, and mandates that drilling waste fluids go back to the generator’s pond, and the tailings, or cuttings, later separated and disposed of at hazardous waste dumps.
According to City of Norwich Public Works Director Carl Ivarson, the high pressure frac’ing fluids needed to release gas deposits from shale formations may contain a combination of or separate heavy metals, nitrates and nitrites, and the carcinogens, benzene and toluene. The latter, he said, “are what I hear the most (concern) about.”
Federal law protects natural gas companies from begin required to reveal the additives used in frac’ing fluids.
The natural gas company Nornew, Inc. has drilled several horizontal wells in a handful of towns in the county, including in Smyrna and Preston. Most have been into the Herkimer and Oneida formations, and have not employed the highly controversial frac’ing fluids that are sometimes needed to tap natural gas in shale, such as the Marcellus and Utica.
The city’s recently revised permit for natural gas haulers was approved by the DEC earlier this month. At the special gas committee meeting, Bays said he was “confident that Norwich is doing a good job protecting the plant.”
The New York State Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee hearing will examine the environmental protections needed in the Department of Environmental Conservation’s new natural gas and oil drilling regulations. The demand for the estimated $1 trillion worth of natural gas reserves in New York’s portion of the Marcellus shale formation has led to increased and robust exploration and drilling.
Supervisors James B. Bays, D-Smyrna, and Peter C. Flanagan, D-Preston, will attend and, if asked, provide testimony. The two prepared for the upcoming hearing at a meeting of the county’s special natural gas committee last week.
Some items Bays and Flanagan intend to recommend are: closed loop drilling to reduce water use, a tracking system for drilling refuse haulers that are rejected at treatment plants, and mandates that drilling waste fluids go back to the generator’s pond, and the tailings, or cuttings, later separated and disposed of at hazardous waste dumps.
According to City of Norwich Public Works Director Carl Ivarson, the high pressure frac’ing fluids needed to release gas deposits from shale formations may contain a combination of or separate heavy metals, nitrates and nitrites, and the carcinogens, benzene and toluene. The latter, he said, “are what I hear the most (concern) about.”
Federal law protects natural gas companies from begin required to reveal the additives used in frac’ing fluids.
The natural gas company Nornew, Inc. has drilled several horizontal wells in a handful of towns in the county, including in Smyrna and Preston. Most have been into the Herkimer and Oneida formations, and have not employed the highly controversial frac’ing fluids that are sometimes needed to tap natural gas in shale, such as the Marcellus and Utica.
The city’s recently revised permit for natural gas haulers was approved by the DEC earlier this month. At the special gas committee meeting, Bays said he was “confident that Norwich is doing a good job protecting the plant.”
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