Supervisors receive another anti-drilling petition
NORWICH – A community action group charged with monitoring renewable energy sources in Chenango County filed an anti-natural gas drilling petition Monday, signed by nearly 600 county residents and visitors.
The petition, the second to be filed by local opposition groups, calls for a moratorium barring high volume/high pressure hydraulic fracturing until after the federal Environmental Protection Agency completes its evaluation of the impact of the technology on human health and the environment.
The Obama Administration initiated a study this spring on whether fracturing and fracturing fluids could contaminate drinking water supplies, the results of which aren’t due until 2012. Houston-based Halliburton Co., the firm that first employed the technology, recently agreed to provide EPA with thousands of pages of data on hydraulic fracturing by Jan. 31.
Hydraulic fracturing is a process in which natural-gas drillers create fractures in underground rock formations to extract natural gas.
The first local petition contained more than 3,000 signatures and asks for a total ban on natural gas drilling in Afton, Coventry, Bainbridge and the surrounding area.
The Chenagno Community Action For Renewable Energy, or CCARE, petition asks the Chenango County Board of Supervisors to support “a sensible pause” of high volume/high pressure hyrdraulic fracturing in the state
“We urge the board to give careful consideration to the potential negative economic impacts, to individuals as well as to the county, that may accompany high volume/high pressure hydraulic fracturing,” the organization’s chairman, Ken Fogarty of Guilford, wrote in an accompanying letter.
CCARE has recently sponsored two educational forums featuring speakers from Mobil Oil Corporation, SUNY Oneonta and Cornell University.
“All three speakers focused on the many inherent environmental dangers in this very new technology, and all three pointed to the lack of sufficient regulations in place, as well as an absence of sufficient oversight mechanisms,” Fogarty said.
The petition was made part of the county’s public record.
The petition, the second to be filed by local opposition groups, calls for a moratorium barring high volume/high pressure hydraulic fracturing until after the federal Environmental Protection Agency completes its evaluation of the impact of the technology on human health and the environment.
The Obama Administration initiated a study this spring on whether fracturing and fracturing fluids could contaminate drinking water supplies, the results of which aren’t due until 2012. Houston-based Halliburton Co., the firm that first employed the technology, recently agreed to provide EPA with thousands of pages of data on hydraulic fracturing by Jan. 31.
Hydraulic fracturing is a process in which natural-gas drillers create fractures in underground rock formations to extract natural gas.
The first local petition contained more than 3,000 signatures and asks for a total ban on natural gas drilling in Afton, Coventry, Bainbridge and the surrounding area.
The Chenagno Community Action For Renewable Energy, or CCARE, petition asks the Chenango County Board of Supervisors to support “a sensible pause” of high volume/high pressure hyrdraulic fracturing in the state
“We urge the board to give careful consideration to the potential negative economic impacts, to individuals as well as to the county, that may accompany high volume/high pressure hydraulic fracturing,” the organization’s chairman, Ken Fogarty of Guilford, wrote in an accompanying letter.
CCARE has recently sponsored two educational forums featuring speakers from Mobil Oil Corporation, SUNY Oneonta and Cornell University.
“All three speakers focused on the many inherent environmental dangers in this very new technology, and all three pointed to the lack of sufficient regulations in place, as well as an absence of sufficient oversight mechanisms,” Fogarty said.
The petition was made part of the county’s public record.
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