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The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has caved to the anti-drillers who are screaming for more time to read the 800-page draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS)–the proposed new drilling regulations all drillers in New York would have to follow when drilling in the Marcellus Shale. They’ve added another 30 days to the [...]

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has finally released its Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement for drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Instead of making drilling companies do an environmental impact statement for each well they drill, the DEC decided to do one “generic” environmental impact statement that will apply to all drilling [...]

Here’s the latest update: While New York dittles around, Pennsylvania is producing natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation. Right now. Today. Film at eleven.
The above is the sum total of what’s happened over the past several months with regard to drilling natural gas in Broome County and surrounding regions. There is a (surprisingly) somewhat [...]

A quick update on the Marcellus Shale Formation drilling proposed for our area. Yesterday the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a preliminary finding with respect to permits being filed to drill for natural gas in the state. You can read it here: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/47554.html.
You may recall earlier posts I’ve made about local farmers [...]

I’ve just posted a new resource page on the blog titled Natural Gas Leases. It lists local landowner groups who either have formed, or are in the process of forming, for the purpose of negotiating land leases with energy companies who want to drill for natural gas around Greater Binghamton. The resource page also lists [...]

Another chapter in Grimm’s (Environmentally Amended) Fairy Tales…
Once upon a time big bad energy companies did something really really bad. They wanted to drill for natural gas where (gasp) natural gas actually existed! Can you imagine raping the ground for something natural? Anyway, these big bad energy companies were of course enabled by and codependent [...]

A lot has happened since I’ve first written about drilling for natural gas around the Greater Binghamton region. For one thing, groups of land owners have banded together and signed contracts worth millions. Yes, millions. Some local farmers who have struggled for years working the farm, paying high taxes and trying to hold on to [...]