WRC Gas Drilling Committee

The Gas Drilling Committee was established in 2009 to respond to concerns regarding impacts on water resources from drilling into the Marcellus shale. The committee will resume once the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation has released the next version of the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS).

Committee Documents

• 12/13/2011 Comments to DEC on proposed regulations for gas drilling
• 12/1/2011 Comments to DEC on the dSGEIS
• 8/2/2010 Comments to EPA Hearing in Binghamton
• 4/20/2010 Letter to EPA
• 1/25/2010 Letter to the Governor
• 12/21/2009 Comments on the dSGEIS

Related Presentations to WRC

Links of Interest to the Committee Members

• dSGEIS -- the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on horizontal gas drilling
• USGS Concept Paper
• PADEP -- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
• NYSDEC gas drilling
• USGS -- United States Geological Survey

Tompkins County
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Ithaca, New York 14850

Phone: (607) 274-5560  
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