Comments on: Federal Agencies Weigh In: USGS on Utica Shale, US Fish and Wildlife Service on Pipeline, NSF Adds Public Health Expert to Study of Impacts http://solidshale.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/federal-agencies-weigh-in-usgs-on-utica-shale-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-on-pipeline-nsf-adds-public-health-expert-to-study-of-impacts/ Solid info for NYS citizens who want their grandkids to be able to walk on unpolluted ground. Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Krys http://solidshale.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/federal-agencies-weigh-in-usgs-on-utica-shale-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-on-pipeline-nsf-adds-public-health-expert-to-study-of-impacts/#comment-1732 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:03:06 +0000 http://solidshale.wordpress.com/?p=605#comment-1732 Ditto the above reply to you, too, Mary. Please don’t hesitate to leave a comment if something seems wrong, and thanks for reading!

]]> By: Krys http://solidshale.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/federal-agencies-weigh-in-usgs-on-utica-shale-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-on-pipeline-nsf-adds-public-health-expert-to-study-of-impacts/#comment-1731 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:02:02 +0000 http://solidshale.wordpress.com/?p=605#comment-1731 Thanks so much for spotting me on this one– I was due at a friend’s birthday brunch and was, quite honestly, rushing to get this post out. Apologies for the errors…. and THANKS for reading and for piping up when I need editing help!

]]> By: Mary Menapace http://solidshale.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/federal-agencies-weigh-in-usgs-on-utica-shale-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-on-pipeline-nsf-adds-public-health-expert-to-study-of-impacts/#comment-1729 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:35:07 +0000 http://solidshale.wordpress.com/?p=605#comment-1729 Hi krys. Clear as a bell your writing. I have been passing it on. People’s head’s are spinning and you sort.

Since this particular well is HORIZONTAL it does not need to wait for a DEC permit until the SGEIS has been finalized and the new NYS regulations on HVHF go into effect.

Did you mean vertical there?

Regards and thank you for your blog, Mary

]]> By: Kathy S. http://solidshale.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/federal-agencies-weigh-in-usgs-on-utica-shale-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-on-pipeline-nsf-adds-public-health-expert-to-study-of-impacts/#comment-1727 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:27:37 +0000 http://solidshale.wordpress.com/?p=605#comment-1727 A couple of corrections:– maybe just inadvertent slip-ups?
(1) It’s the Oneonta Daily Star — or the Cooperstown Freeman’s Journal — (not Cooperstown Daily Star).
(2) The well in Owego referred to in the final paragraph is actually (reportedly) *vertical,* not horizontal. The horizontal hydrofracking is what’s on hold in NYS so far. Horizontal is the kind that uses massive more amounts of water, involves underground blasting, and produces massive more toxic flowback and waste than vertical. Companies that drill vertical wells in NYS now are probably doing so to use them as place-holders and because some show of activity is required to keep the lease in effect beyond original expiration date until horizontal permitting begins (if nobody comes to their senses in time). Horizontal is what Cheney & Co. managed to get drowsy Congress to exempt in 2005 from the environmental protective acts that are in place for all other industries. Horizontal is what Cheney’s company Halliburton developed the technology to accomplish, but not without known and predictable risks and foreseeable as well as unforeseeable dire consequences in all aspects, including physically, environmentally, economically, socially, you-name-it..

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