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2/20/10
Water waste a kink in New York shale gas future
Reuters
New York state, which sits on top part of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, has placed a
virtual moratorium on high-volume drilling while it completes an ...

2/19/10
Two Oil-Field Companies Acknowledge Fracking With Diesel
New York Times
... in the controversial process that has expanded access to vast natural gas plays.
BJ Services acknowledged it had violated a December 2003 "memorandum of ...

2/18/10
Bat fungus threatens backyards, crops
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Nancy Heaslip, from the NY Department of Environmental Conservation, inserts a radio transmitter
into a little brown bat in an abandoned mine in Rosendale, ...

House Panel to Investigate Hydraulic Fracturing
ABC News
By MATTHEW DALY AP Writer AP An oil and gas drilling technique that is becoming more
widespread is drawing scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that it may ...

2/9/10
Hess prepping massive gas-drilling operation in Wayne and Susquehanna, Pa ...
Ithaca Journal
In addition, SWOGG members have leased about 8000 acres to Cabot Oil & Gas. Newfield
spokesman Keith Schmidt said Tuesday the permitting process is underway ...

2/5/19
Gas drilling meeting draws lots of interest
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
“I don't want it (Marcellus Shale drilling) in Luzerne County,” said Audrey Simpson of Shavertown
“Take a trip up to Dimock (Township in Susquehanna County) ...

2/3/10
Deadly Fish Virus in Upstate NY
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
The researchers have worked with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation
to determine where the virus is and in which fish it has been found, ...

Onondaga County Legislature bans hydrofracking on county property
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is reviewing new regulations for
hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale and similar rock formations. ...

1/29/10
Resistance continues against natural gas drilling that has begun ...
Pocono Record
... Commission will hold a hearing on granting gas drilling permits in the region. ... in battleground terms:
"Haliburton and Exxon-Mobil, Hess, Cabot, ...

Pa. Police Catch Truck 41 Tons Over Weight Limit
KDKA
Drilling crews are flocking to Pennsylvania as they rush to extract natural gas from the potentially
lucrative Marcellus Shale formation. ...

1/27/10
Drilling not answer in other states
Ithaca Journal
With shale-gas drilling being touted as the panacea for New York's budget woes,
I think we might look to our friends out West for a reality check. ...

US sets up hotline for natgas drilling complaints
Reuters
Fracking involves injecting water, sand and chemicals into rock formations at high pressure to make oil and natural gas flow more freely. ...

1/25/10
New gas drilling companies targeting Wayne County
Scranton Times-Tribune
By Steve McConnell (Staff Writer) A new era of natural gas drilling is well under way across Pennsylvania,
but Wayne County has remained as quiet as the ...

Protesters divided over natural gas drilling
Auburn Citizen
By: AP ALBANY - About 400 landowners gathered near the Capitol in the rain urging support of
natural gas drilling in New York while environmentalists in the ...

NYC's Bloomberg opposes gas drilling in watershed
Reuters
The Marcellus Shale formation underlying both states holds the promise of providing the
United States with a valuable domestic energy source. ...

1/24/10
2 sides offer opposite views about fracking
Times Herald-Record
They're rallying in Albany Monday to "protect New York from the dangers of natural gas drilling."
"Fear-mongering" is what the gas industry and supporters ...

1/23/10
DEC accepting applications for pheasant-release programs
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced the opening
of the application period for its two cooperative programs to ...

Underground Injection of Gas Industry Brine Taking Off
State Journal
The newest wells are operated by names familiarly associated with development of the
Marcellus Shale, names like Cabot Oil and Gas, Chesapeake Energy and ...

1/20/10
Hydrofracking to be taxed under Paterson's plan
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is reviewing proposed
regulations on hydrofracking, a technique that environmentalists say could pollute ...

Marcellus rush echoes history of recklessness | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/20/2010
Philadelphia Inquirer
... funded reforestation and careful stewardship did the magnificent wooded headwaters of the
Susquehanna, Delaware, and Allegheny river basins recover. ...

Gas Drilling Techniques Under Fire ... Again
New York Times (blog)
Federal government oversight of hydraulic fracturing – a drilling technique that boosts natural gas
extraction by blasting water, sand and chemicals ...

1/19/10
Gov Paterson Takes Axe to Environmental Programs While Proposing Record ...
ReadMedia (press release)
Proposed cuts to New York State's DEC mean that the agency will have fewer staff to oversee water
and air pollution discharged into the State's environment, ...

1/17/10
Many Central New York lawmakers undecided on hydrofracking
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
David Paterson and the DEC to submit a more thorough regulation plan for natural gas drilling.
The group called the draft DEC regulations “deeply flawed. ...

The time to tally turkeys has arrived again
Albany Times Union
The state Department of Environmental Conservation wants to hear from you.
This marks the second winter the DEC is asking for public reports of turkey ...

1/16/10
Interest runs high in gas-drilling plans
Utica Observer Dispatch
In December 2009, the DEC closed its comment period on a natural gas drilling regulations
draft, including a controversial practice that would be used to ...

1/10/10
Sullivan to spend $326500 on flood mitigation
Times Herald-Record
Brustman said he was applying for permits for the projects from the
New York state Department of Environmental Conservation,
a process that takes a month to ...

'Fracking' Under Pressure | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/10/2010
Philadelphia Inquirer
Officials in New York, worried that gas drilling threatens the city's watershed,
have called for a ban. In northeastern Pennsylvania, Marcellus drilling is ...

1/7/10
East Coast Basalt Rocks Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide
Environment News Service
"The next step would be to get some exploratory surveying and drilling going," he said.
The paper suggests a half-dozen spots around New York including the ...

The Fight Against Hydraulic Fracturing is Heating Up in New York State
Democracy Now (blog)
Dozens of New York State and City legislators and environmental activists gathered on the
steps of City Hall on Monday to urge Governor Paterson to step ...

DEC's Marcellus Shale Gas Mining SGEIS "Deeply Flawed" NY officials, Sierra ...
PR Leap (press release)
The NYC event marked the first time the environmental community has united with New York officials

1/6/10
Energy Companies Criticize Proposed N.Y. State Drilling Regs
Clean Skies
But two major drillers in the region's Marcellus Shale formation say the proposed regulations are
onerous and likely to scare energy companies out of state. ...

NYC Seeks to Ban Gas Drilling Within the City's Watershed
Circle of Blue WaterNews
The gas is trapped in a layer of rock known as Marcellus shale, which extends from New York to
eastern Kentucky. The shale formation is considered the ...

1/5/10
NY Pols Pressure Paterson on Gas Drilling
WNYC
New York is the first state to undertake a review of new gas drilling techniques and their
likely impact on water resources. The city is adamantly opposed ...

Chesapeake says NY could drive away gas drillers
Reuters
That continued a trend in the industry of international oil buying shale gas assets.
In December, the largest US oil and gas company, Exxon Mobil (XOM. ...

Massa: DEC must do more to assess impact of drilling
Press & Sun-Bulletin
"I strongly support the reality that it is universally better to burn domestically produced
natural gas than imported foreign crude oil," he said. ...

Environmental Concerns Rise in Northeastern Pennsylvania as ...
Trading Markets (press release)
... tap gas in the Marcellus Shale rock formation roughly two kilometers underground.
... Ron Carter said he and his wife were reluctant to sign until Cabot ...

12/31/09
Environmentalists want tougher gas drilling rules
Lebanon Daily News
AP LAMBERTVILLE, NJ—Three environmental groups want the Delaware River Basin Commission
to adopt tougher regulations on natural gas drilling in the Delaware ...

12/30/09
DEP calls for ban on drilling in watershed
Queens Courier
BY NOAH ROSENBERG New York City tap water is considered among the nation's finest.
In fact, entrepreneurs have been known to bottle it, market it, ...

EPA Criticizes Natural-Gas Drilling Plan
WNYC
by Ilya Marritz NEW YORK, NY December 30, 2009 —The US Environmental Protection Agency
 is the latest voice to criticize Albany's plans for natural gas ...

EPA, Concerned Over Gas Drilling, Questions New York State's Plans
New York Times
... which is envisaged in the Marcellus Shale region. The region includes New York City's
watershed in the Catskills. The Chesapeake Energy Corporation, ...
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New Jersey environmental groups demand Delaware River Basin Commission ...
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
A coalition of business and economic development groups, headed by the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York,
is drumming up support for drilling ...

12/29/09
Drill Wastewater Disposal Options in NY Report Have Problems of Their Own
ProPublica
At least 2500 wells per year could eventually be drilled into the huge natural gas reserve,
state regulators say. Other estimates run several times higher ...

Groups Call on DEC to Protect New York's Environment & Drinking Water from ...
ReadMedia (press release)
"Before even one well gets drilled in New York State, we must be certain that our waterways
and communities are protected from the dangers of natural gas ...

DEC union asks for more study before permitting gas drilling in the Marcellus ...
Ithaca Journal
David Paterson to hold off on allowing natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale for at least
another year while state and federal regulators conduct more ...

12/20/09
Gas 'gold rush' ignites in rural New York
Laredo Sun
Many opposing the gas rush are second home owners from New York aghast at the idea of
drilling rigs scarring the landscape. Yet holdouts also include the ...

12/18/09
Concerns grow as bat deaths soar
Albany Times Union
New York's bat survey, which is the first multi-state survey to be released, is
"not unexpected, but very disappointing and depressing," said Jeremy Coleman ...

Feral pigs spotted in state park taken by hunters
Olean Times Herald
There are reserves in central Pennsylvania from which some feral pigs may have escaped, and reports
of some feral pigs in central New York as well. ...

Supervisors unhappy with potential profit share from compulsory integration
Evening Sun (subscription)
... county-owned land in the Town of Preston would be integrated into a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
spacing unit: The first, ...

Frack-fluid tagging part of model Grand Junction, Palisade ...
The Colorado Independent
DeGette's so-called FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act would compel disclosure of fracking chemicals. ...

12/11/09
Delaware River Basin flood warning system gets federal funding
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
WASHINGTON – Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) Thursday won final House
approval of his request of $200000 for the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC). ...

Gas drilling workers suspended for possible drug use
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
The enforcement comes at a time when Cabot has faced problems with spills and
mishaps by drilling crews tapping the Marcellus Shale about 30 miles south of ...

Cornell team concludes DEC ill-equipped to oversee natural gas ...
Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA
Without more inspectors, Marcellus development "will rely on self-compliance,"
 ... that have plagued drilling operations by Cabot Oil & Gas in Dimock, Pa. ...

12/8/09
Dark Side of a Natural Gas Boom
The Ledger
In September, the Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, a Houston energy company,
was required to suspend its fracturing operations for three weeks after causing ...

Frack Attack
Planet Jackson Hole
More than 150 residents at Hoback Ranches, at the northern end of the Wyoming Range
called the Hoback Rim are almost uniformly against Plains Exploration's ...

6000 sign petition asking DEC to strengthen natural gas-drilling regulations
Elmira Star-Gazette
According to one recent study, Broome County in the Southern Tier has enough natural gas
within its boundaries to create 16000 jobs and $14 billion in local ...

12/7/09
Two companies fined for acid spill during fracking
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
Chesapeake Appalachia and Schlumberger Technology Corp. were both fined $15557 ...
The process, called fracking for short, involves blasting the Marcellus ...

12/4/09
Green groups want drilling freeze
Albany Times Union
The groups also want Paterson to impose a one-year drilling moratorium
while DEC drafts new rules and to turn to Enck, who heads EPA in New York and ...

12/3/09
Report: NY's Environmental Agency Can't Adequately Protect Drinking Water from ...
ReadMedia (press release)
By the end of the 2009-10 State Fiscal Year, the DEC's Division of Water will have lost an additional
40 staffers. Permitting natural gas drilling presents ...

11/29/09
At Odds Over Land, Money and Gas
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
They live above the Marcellus Shale, a subterranean layer of rock stretching
 ... Grace K. Kinzer, signed a lease with Chesapeake Energy two years ago when a ...

Ash borer menace is confined to discovery area so far
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Since then, they've spread through 13 states and two Canadian provinces and
have become a major focus of federal and state control programs. New York state ...

11/28/09
Gas drilling may shift lending landscape
Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA
... is also waiting for the state Department of Environmental Conservation to
 ... Energy companies have been drilling for natural gas in western New York ...

11/26/09
Dimock families sue Cabot
River Reporter
He also told the Associated Press news service that the gas in the private wells
might have gotten there by natural causes, and it might have nothing to do ...

11/25/09
Marcellus Shale: Pipe dreams in Pennsylvania?
The Chesapeake Bay Journal - Seven Valleys,PA,USA
Bob Casey, D-PA, and Charles Schumer, D-NY, have introduced the Fracturing Responsibility and
Awareness of Chemicals Act, known as the "FRAC Act," which ...

Hot Debate At Anti-Gas Drilling Seminar
Pike County Press - Milford,PA,USA
To simplify it; before fossil deposits – under great heat and pressures – become clean natural gas
within the shale formation they go through different ...

11/20/09
Landowners Sue Gas Company
WBGH - Binghamton,NY,USA
The plaintiffs living on Carter Road signed lease agreements with Cabot in 2006 to
drill into the Marcellus Shale that runs beneath their homes. ...

Meeting in Wayne County about natural gas drilling descends into argument
Scranton Times
Ms. Carluccio also referenced examples of spills and other effects caused by natural gas
drilling activity, including in Dimock, Susquehanna County. ...

11/19/09
Hydrofracking Friction at DECs Public Comment Session (VIDEO)
WENY-TV
CORNING --- As New York looks toward legalizing horizontal gas drilling in
the Marcellus Shale, people in the Southern Tier community are educating ...

11/16/09
Some properties may need to be re-mortgaged if gas leases signed
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Energy companies have been drilling for natural gas in western New York for decades.
"We understand there is a growing trend of gas leasing in the region, ...
".....require some of its borrowers to re-mortgage their gas-leased properties, which would entail a new
appraisal and closing costs, Berrish said.  That's because gas leasing could lead to gas drilling and a
potential de-valuing of property, Berrish said

11/15/09
What's killing the bats?
Boston Globe
Population counts at two dozen small winter colonies in Massachusetts,
New York, and Vermont show they have plummeted from 48626 bats to 2695 -- an average ...

New York Gas Drilling Is Fracking Out
Daily Yonder - Austin,Texas,USA
Gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale has Western New York State in an uproar. ....
reservoirs and farmland in Chemung, Tioga, Broome and Sullivan Counties. ...

11/13/09
Fight intensifies in New York over natural gas drilling
Free Speech Radio News
A fight is well underway in New York State over whether to allow drilling permits
for natural gas in the Marcellus shale, a horizontal bedrock strip that ...
(audio program available)

13 UDC-member towns agree to comment letter
River Reporter - Narrowsburg,NY,USA
The letter continues, “The UDC is very concerned over how the cumulative effect of natural gas ...
Town of Tusten alternate representative, Susan Sullivan, ...

Shale or sham?
Houston Chronicle
In a boom-prone industry known for greeting new discoveries with wide-eyed hype,
shale gas has unleashed a gusher of zeal, sparking a drilling craze and ...

Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas
Wells Has Been “Woefully ...
Democracy Now
Well, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation didn't
respond to our requests for comment. They told the Ithaca Journal, however, ...
(Video Available)

11/12/09
New Yorkers Tell DEC: 'No Fracking Way'
ProPublica
This was the second public hearing on the DEC's environmental review of natural gas
drilling in the Marcellus Shale, a process heralded as environmentally ...

As Domestic Gas Drilling Takes Off, Controversy Erupts in NY
HeatingOil.com
It's the amount that's worrisome: test samples from New York gas drilling show radium-226
(a derivative of uranium) at up to 267 times the limit for safe ...

New Yorkers Speak Out at Gas Drilling Hearing
WNYC
by Soterios Johnson and Ilya Marritz NEW YORK, NY November 11, 2009 —Nearly a
thousand New Yorkers turned out last night for the chance to comment on the ...
(audio report avaialble here)

Faculty Debate Gas Drilling
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
Currently, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has placed a
moratorium on horizontal drilling in New York, but vertical drilling is ...

Newfield preparing to drill for gas in Wayne County
Wayne Independent - Honesdale,PA,USA
Newfield Exploration Company, in an investment partnership with Hess Corporation
, ... first foray into extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale, ...

11/10/09
NYC rally aims to stop drilling in watershed
Times Herald-Record
By Steve Israel Sure, Tuesday's "Kill the Drill" rally in New York City aims
to stop gas drilling in the city watershed. But what about other places that ...

11/9/09
New York report blasts gas industry as GarCo weighs FRAC Act resolution
The Colorado Independent
The FRAC Act, introduced by Colorado congressional members Diana DeGette (D-Denver) and
Jared Polis (D-Boulder), as well as New York Rep. ...

Is Marcellus Shale too hot to handle?
Albany Times Union
By ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN PROPUBLICA As New York gears up for gas drilling in
the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery ...
(radioactive materials in fracking waste water)

Pennsylvania lawsuit says drilling polluted water
Reuters
Atlas is exploiting the Marcellus Shale, a vast gas reserve that underlies about two-thirds of
Pennsylvania and parts of West Virginia, Ohio and New York ...

11/7/09
Pipelines a must for Marcellus drilling to take place
Ithaca Journal
... to Pennsylvania's Office of Mineral Resources Management, which oversees nearly
600 employees handling natural gas regulation and other issues. ...

11/5/09
More Oversight Sought for Hydraulic Fracturing
New York Times
And Chesapeake Energy Corp., which was one of the companies announcing its willingness
to disclose drilling chemicals, last month bowed to public pressure ...

11/4/09
DEC Extends Public Comment Period for Marcellus Shale Draft SGEIS
ReadMedia (press release) - Albany,NY,USA
The SGEIS addresses the range of potential impacts of shale gas ... NYSDEC Division of
Mineral Resources, 625 Broadway, Third Floor, Albany, NY 12233-6500. ..

10/30/09
Study on risk of fracturing to be done by EPA
Mid-Hudson News
“While natural gas certainly has an important role in our national energy policy,
it's imperative that we take every step possible to ensure that our ...

10/29/09
300 folks pack Sullivan fracking forum
Times Herald-Record
No matter that one of the nation's largest natural gas companies,
Chesapeake, just said it would not drill in one of the most contentious areas of Sullivan ...

DEC gets an earful on Marcellus shale fracking
Mid-Hudson News
... of Environmental Conservation held a public hearing on its proposed generic environmental
impact statement for natural gas drilling in Marcellus shale. ...

10/28/09
A Watershed Decision
New York Times
... drilling in the Marcellus Shale. They insisted the rules were tough enough to prevent accidents.
Now Chesapeake, an intended beneficiary of these rules, ...

Chesapeake Energy Corporation Confirms Decision Not to Drill for Natural Gas ...
Reuters
This leasehold is immaterial to Chesapeake and also does not appear prospective for the Marcellus Shale. "Though Chesapeake
believes it can drill safely in ...

10/18/09
Sullivan County would do well to look at Pennsylvania experience with fracking
Times Herald-Record
When the natural gas rush hits Sullivan County, the lives of residents will change profoundly.
By Steve Israel Steel yourself, Sullivan County. ...

10/16/09
Wading in water risk pool
Albany Times Union
Gas industry officials who are eyeing natural gas production in the
Catkills and Southern Tier told lawmakers the proposed rules go too far, ...

10/13/09
Gas drilling hearing to be held in Sullivan
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
By Steve Israel Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake will host ...
gas drilling of the gas rich Marcellus shale, which sits beneath Sullivan. ...

SULLIVAN COUNTY HEARING Wednesday, Oct. 28, Sullivan County Community College,
E Building, Seelig Theater, 112 College Rd., Loch Sheldrake, NY 12759.

10/12/09
Dallas Township PA revising zoning to regulate gas drilling
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Drillers are flocking to the area to tap the Marcellus Shale, a layer of gas-laden rock about
a mile underground that stretches from New York to Virginia. ...

10/9/09
Politicians, enviro groups call for a drilling ban in watershed
The Villager - New York,NY,USA
The solution fractures the formation and releases the natural gas trapped ... closed down a
hydrofracking operation near Dimock in Susquehanna County, Pa., ...

Scientists race to prevent ash tree's extinction
The Associated Press
.. millions of ash seeds from across the US....

10/8/09
Report: Gas drilling imperils water
Albany Times Union
... from a consultant hired by New York City warns that "nearly every activity"
associated with natural gas drilling, as proposed for southern New York, ...

10/6/09
New Regulation on Open Burning Takes Effect Oct. 14
ReadMedia (press release)
The New York State Environmental Board approved this state regulation on Sept. 1.
Chairman of the Environmental Board and Environmental Conservation ...

10/4/09
Gas boom a bust for Mt. Pleasant man
Washington Observer Reporter
... or FRAC, Act to close loopholes in the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Last year, Gulla received a letter from the EPA stating that Range was fined $24600, ...
(Landowner regrets lease)

10/3/09
Assembly to hold hearing on gas drilling regulations
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
... Environmental Impact Statement governing natural gas drilling on the Marcellus Shale
formation in Sullivan County and the Southern Tier of New York. ...

10/1/09
Despite new regulations, gas drilling in state is not imminent
Ithaca Journal
That's no secret," said Lindsay Wickham, a field adviser for the New York State Farm Bureau,
an agency that advocates landowners' interests. ...

10/1/09 
FEATURE-Water worries threaten US push for natural gas
Forbes
25, Pennsylvania regulators ordered Cabot Oil & Gas Corp to halt fracking operations in one county
after it admitted three recent spills of fracking fluid. ...

9/30/09  
DEC Proposes New Safety Measures, Mitigation Strategies to Govern ...

9/29/09
'Fracking' Accidents Prompt Calls for Oversight
SolveClimate - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Last month in Wyoming, the EPA confirmed the presence of hydraulic fracturing chemicals in drinking
water wells near fracking operations around the town of ...(interesting video)
 

9/28/09
Shale drilling stirs concern
Scranton Times
John Kurilla was glad to hear Cabot Oil & Gas Co. can no longer hydraulically fracture shale in
Susquehanna County to get natural gas for now. ...
(property owners organize against)

9/25/09 
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation informs us that new draft
regulations for Gas Drilling due to be released September 30, 2009.

Cabot Oil ordered to shut fracturing ops in Penn.
Reuters - USA
Sept 25 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania regulators said they ordered Cabot Oil & Gas Corp
 ... where Cabot is drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale formation. ...

Study: River towns must prepare for drilling
Times Herald-Record 9/25/09
The Delaware River Basin Commission has jurisdiction over water withdrawal requests.
So "local municipalities are limited in their powers," says the group ...

Spills bring violation notice to company
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA 9/25/09
By Rory Sweeney rsweeney@timesleader.com Cabot Oil and Gas has been issued a letter ... rock in the gas-drilling
process used in the Marcellus Shale region. ...

Gas chiefs call for more frac disclosure
Upstream Online - Oslo,Oslo,Norway 9/24/09
Development in the Marcellus, which stretches from West Virginia across most of ...
"We as an industry need to demystify (hydrofracturing)," Chesapeake ...

9/6/2010
Some fears, hopes may go unrealized in shale saga
Buffalo News
In the southeast corner of New York State, there's great fear that Marcellus Shale gas
drilling in the New York City watershed could poison the Big Apple's ...

Marauding beetle puts county into quarantine
Catskill Daily Mail
But a real threat is slowly advancing on the trees of New York state and there is little
anyone can do about it other than strive to slow the advance of ...

8/29/20
Steve Israel: Drilling timeline depends on DEC regs
Times Herald-Record
... to start in Sullivan County for at least a year from now — probably a lot longer. ... Drilling of the gas-rich
Marcellus shale can't start before that. ...

8/23/10
'Fracking' fractures NY county
USA Today
The coming of natural gas drilling has deeply divided rural Sullivan County, where agriculture and
tourism make up a big chunk of the economy. ...

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