For Immediate Release July 27, 2010 Contact: Jeff Tittel, NJ Sierra Club Director, 609-558-9100 Commissioner Martin: Don’t Sell New Jersey’s Water Supply Short New Jersey should be deeply concerned with proposals for shale drilling and hydro fracking in the Delaware River Basin. The Delaware River is the source of drinking water for three million New [...]
New Jersey’s Environmental Protection Commissioner says Pennsylvania should develop rules for controversial natural gas drilling in their state, while environmentalists believe the drilling process is a threat to the Delaware River.
Regulators have granted a controversial permit for a natural gas drilling project in the Delaware River water shed.
An unregulated drilling technique is putting the water supply for Trenton, Phillipsburg and many South Jersey towns at risk and we need your help to protect it. (Click this link to send an e-mail message and to take other actions!) Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale (PA & NY) is threatening to pollute New [...]
Another battle is brewing over natural gas drilling near the Delaware River in Pennsylvania.
Walton Reporter (no website) May 19, 2010 By Robert A. Cairns DELHI – The Delaware County Board of Supervisors wants the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to hurry up and approve regulations for natural gas drilling. At last week’s board meeting, supervisors adopted a resolution, calling on the DRBC to “expedite the promulgation of rules [...]
natural gas drilling, originally uploaded by arimoore. From NY H2O- GAS DRILLING CONTAMINATES WATER NATIONWIDE. BUT WE CAN SAVE NY! SAVE THE DELAWARE RIVER! The Delaware River Basin Commission is at it again… Stone Energy Corporation is trying to ‘frack’ with the protected Delaware River. We need everyone at the Public Hearing to stand up [...]
Citgo is offering to give a conservation easement of 392-acre Petty’s Island in the Delaware River for FREE and to clean up ALL contamination to government environmental standards. Citgo is also offering to donate $2 million to a land trust to manage and conserve the island. Taxpayers will not be liable for any environmental clean [...]