August 12, 2013
One permit application at a time. When something goes wrong with a well, you “kill the well”. Meaning you shut it down. The DEC has been thoughtful enough to provide us with a list of HVHF well permit applications to be killed - by challenging them preemptively. The only qualification these applicants have met so far is that they’ve shown up with adequate well spacing for a HVHF well - nominally 640 acres, aka a “section” or a square mile. And they’ve paid a dinky fee. That’s it. But that’s enough to see where they’ve been proposed - and protest them. Here’s the list of HVHF permit applications: http://www.dec.ny.gov/dmndata/Well_Reports/Unit_Spacing_SW_Rpt.html By taking their application and their money, the DEC is not implying that a drilling permit will be approved or issued, since […]
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August 10, 2013
Not because of Gasland II. Or some “health study”. It’s because it’s not worth it to Governor Cuomo. Politically, environmentally, or (surprise !) geologically and economically. Who would have ever guessed that ? What if you gave a Frack Party and nobody showed up ? That’s Governor Cuomo’s dilemma in New York. Most of his fracking guests - all of whom invited themselves to the Party, are leaving before the party’s even started. After his best fracking friends had talked him into to having the party in the first place. With fracking friends like that, who needs fracking enemies ? At one point, the frackers, their captive environmental NGOs the Energy Defense Frauds, and their Best Fracking Friend, Mayor Bloomy, had an idea to frack the Southern Tier with “maybe 50 test wells.” […]
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