Tony and Bob’s Recommended Reading List
Where do you go to find the most balanced and scientifically accurate information about horizontal, high water pressure hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale? How do you determine which science is the most sound? Well, today we spoke with Bob Williams of Barnes-Williams Environmental Services BWES and Tony R. Ingraffea, Ph.D to figure that out. If you didn’t hear what Bob and Tony had to say, then please checkout our podcast of today’s show.
Also, you can check out this list of helpful websites Bob and Tony recommended to us.
1. NYC SGEIS (Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement) comments:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/natural_gas_drilling/nycdep_comments_final_12-22-09.pdf
2. EPA SGEIS Comments:
http://www.epa.gov/region02/spmm/pdf/Marcellus_dSGEIS_Comment_Letter_plus_Enclosure.pdf
3. NY draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement for High
Volume Horizontal Hydrofracturing in Marcellus and similar shales:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/58440.html
4. http://www.chec.pitt.edu/ Excellent site for scientific info on
public health effects of shale gas development.
5. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection
http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/oil___gas/6003
6. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/205.html
And
http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/46288.html
7. Environmental Protection Agency
http://water.epa.gov/type/groundwater/uic/class2/hydraulicfracturing/index.cfm
I hope I didn’t make your head exploded with this overwhelming amount of information! If you have any questions about Marcellus Shale or hydrofracking, feel free to write Susan at susan@thecapitolpressroom.org. Maybe you’re question will be asked on the next edition of The Capitol Pressroom.
2 Comments
dear susan
thanks for doing such a great job of covering the fracking issue, even including references. as always, you’re a peach.
Thank you for putting Dr. Tony Ingraffia on your show; his clarity and large view analysis of this gas drilling procedure is refreshing to hear. And too, Mr. Bob Williams disclosed what he is really about and what he values, toward the end of this interview; that if other areas of the country(and by extension, the world) are made ugly, toxic, and unfit for people to live in, then too we should also do this nasty business to New York State. It is little matter to Mr. Williams that what is involved here is some of the United States’ most beautiful areas, the Finger Lakes region.
NIMBY?? How about HIABY…. “not in anybody’s back yard.”
Some procedures, some technology should not be used, not be done. And if a person wants to have some view of a decent life in the future, it is necessary for this person to become informed, and be politically and socially active in promoting and advancing sane use of technology, be it dealing with energy, communications, education, health, governing.
To do nothing in this regard, is a most unhealthy state of mind and body to live in, and being healthy is more than proper diet, exercise, sleep. Also demanded of a healthy life,. is political and social involvement.
“What you can do may seem almost insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Gandhi
David Kauber, Aurora, NY, a village with a corporate takeover, a couple of few years ago, with support with the president of Wells College, a known lier and person without Phd, and thus unfit accademically, as well as morally, to president of any college, including Wells College.