Posted on 10/20/2009 12:47:29 PM PDT by neverdem
The Paterson administra tion has finally given a green light to proposed drilling in the Marcellus Shale, considered by many to be the nation's largest natural-gas reservoir. Covering several states and extending more than 600 miles, the basin may contain as much as six decades' worth of US natural-gas needs.
Drilling is already under way in Pennsylvania and other Marcellus states. Well over a year ago, Gov. Paterson put energy production on hold here at home so regulators could study the issue. This delay satisfied the demands of anti-drilling greens, but it denied the Empire State's economy a much-needed boost.
So let's give Paterson credit, then, that his team's long-anticipated draft environmental review comes down on the side of natural-gas drilling in New York.
More than that, Paterson has rebuffed extreme environmentalists' demands for a ban on drilling in the New York City watershed. That's a real accomplishment, since one of the main groups calling for such a ban, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Riverkeeper, boasted in August about helping shape the state study.
Paterson's report shoots down alarmist green claims that drilling in the watershed puts the city's water supply at risk. Instead it insists on sensible environmental regulations specifically tailored to hydraulic fracturing drilling -- such as extensive testing of water wells near drilling sites, disclosure of which chemicals are used to extract gas buried deep underground and strict plans for wastewater disposal.
It also demands that extra care be taken for drilling in the watershed and establishes buffer zones around its reservoirs and aqueducts. Reasonable enough. In all, the Paterson review shows that energy production and environmental protection need not be mutually exclusive.
This is good news, given the perilous state of the New York economy. A drilling boom in the New York portion of the Marcellus Shale...
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There have been shyster lawyers going to various land owners here in the Finger Lakes for the last few years trying to get landowners to sign over their rights.
Watch the other hand, as they say in magic. DEC has enacted a set of drilling rules and safeguards that most charitably can be called ‘draconian’. And they’re bragging about them.
What's gonna happen when natty gas prices start to fall thanks to a healthy supply? The government is going to take it in the form of taxes.
We can't have energy prices falling and standard's of living going up. That would suggest that Americans are exceptional in the world.
(my apologies for the cynicism)
Next hurdle will be the lawsuits from environmental companies over hydraulic fracturing of the wells. Each well requires millions of gallons of freshwater to be pumped into the ground to fracture the rock to make it productive. About 20% of it usually comes back but the rest stays in the ground. The lawsuits will involve the use of the water and where to dispose of the frac water that is produced.
Exactly, and Patterson knows this. This will be tied up by the Enviro-moonbats for years.
Ping.
Maybe now they’ll lower taxes.
Nah
I guess the usual quip about blind squirrels or hogs finding nuts would be totally out of line, right???? :-)
Once again, Sarah Palin leads the way, this time in New York!
Be awfully nice seeing more of this from other scorned 'Rat pols Such behavior might even be misconstrued as patriotic. LOL
I seriously doubt that the rats in the U.S. Senate are that stupid. IMHO, there won't be a treaty, or a bill that passes both Houses. That still leaves the EPA and the stupid SCOTUS decision that CO2 is a pollutant. Mother nature's provision of global cooling is better late than never. They will bring another case to SCOTUS, IMHO.
Thanks for the link.
Republican County Chairman in NY 23rd Slams Scozzafava, Says He's Written Off Election
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The rats are going all out for Owens. They are taking it as a referendum on Obama.
House race seen as referendum - Special election tests GOP, Obama power
I could see if this seat was in NYC, a RINO might be the best you could hope for. But this is upstate NY.
It's a national election, and NY will drill for gas. That's why I pinged all of you.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
BTTT
Amen, lets hope he doesn’t cave again.
To be fair, though, I’d like to point out that NY already produces a fair amount of gas.
Gas wells and substations dot the western NY area.
Whether they were wells intentionally drilled, or they are pumping out gas they found in the salt mine regions, I’m not sure. But I know it’s there.
Good links.
Wish ya all luck. No longer the Empire State. Now the Nanny State.
I presume Patterson wanted to keep his job more than he wanted to pacify the whackos.
Good for Paterson. Hope he brings Sarah Palin to further promote the drilling in Alaska and a few folks who think we should start drilling off of Florida.
Switzerland is shaling their mountain sides with an unbelievable conveyor belt system that goes for miles and miles to generate fuel. But you never hear of this concept.
Last summer it was drill, drill, drill, then Congress got back to work and we got to bailout, bailout, bailout.
Then we got Obama.
I’m coming to the end of a “drilling rights lease” soon. Believe me, when it comes up for renewal, the price per acre that they will have to pony will be much more than the tidy sum I picked up four years ago! And this time, I suspect there will be drilling, to boot.
Now that was funny.
Thanks for the ping!
Uh-huh.
Not a bad bit of political maneuvering for a blind black guy, huh. LOL!!
While the good looking, articulate black guy who's supposedly 20/20 never saw it coming. LOL!
"Hope he brings Sarah Palin to further promote the drilling in Alaska and a few folks who think we should start drilling off of Florida."
Now *that's* a great idea, my friend!!
I mean since politics does make for strange bedfellows, why not.
"Switzerland is shaling their mountain sides with an unbelievable conveyor belt system that goes for miles and miles to generate fuel. But you never hear of this concept."
Gee whiz, wonder why.
Could it be Switzerland's for the Swiss while American leadership's for...well, WTH are America's leaders for? LOL
"Last summer it was drill, drill, drill, then Congress got back to work and we got to bailout, bailout, bailout. Then we got Obama."
Yea, funny that.
Why those darned qwazy coincidences. They just kept coming, kept dropping like dominoes.
Then Shezam, zerO the Messiah.
The ultimate domino, falls. LOL!!!
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