Submit a public comment to the DEC
The public comment period closes on January 11th. Please submit a comment today. It's crucial that we flood the DEC with comments to make sure they know that fracking cannot be done safely and that New Yorkers do not want this dangerous industry introduced to the state.
Click here for an online guide to writing comments.
Submit a comment online! The DEC accepts comments through their online submission form. You just have to register, then select to make a comment on either the dSGEIS or the proposed regulations, then select a category for your comment. The last category for comments on the dSGEIS is "additional information" which is a good place to write about your concerns that don't fit perfectly under other categories.
Submit a comment by snail mail! Write your comment and send it in to the DEC. Your letter will be accepted as long as it is postmarked by January 11th. Send your letter to the DEC at: Attn: dSGEIS Comments, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233-6510
Comment writing conference call! For more help writing and submitting comments, join us on a conference call on Monday, January 9th at 7:00 PM. We are hosting it with our friends at Food & Water Watch, United for Action, and Catskill Mountainkeeper. The call will go over the process and get some technical details from Food & Water Watch's researcher Dr. Hugh MacMillan. Click here to register.
NYC Comment Writing Parties! Join us at upcoming comment writing parties in NYC, where we can all share knowledge and help each other write comments:
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Sunday, January 8th.
The Atrium
12:00pm - 3:00pm
60 Wall St.
802-318-1135
By Subway: Wall St (4,5) Broad (J,Z) Fulton st (2,3) Whitehall st (N,R)
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Sunday, January 8th.
Blue Stockings Café
6:00pm – 9:00 pm
172 Allen St.
212-777-6028
Blue Stockings Website
By Subway: Essex (J,M,Z) Delancey (F) Grand (B,D) Bleeker (4,6)
Background information: The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) on Well Permit Issuance on Horizontal Drilling and High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale. The 2009 draft SGEIS received over 13,000 comments and was ordered by former Governor Patterson for revision and re-release. The revised impact statement, officially released on September 7th, 20011 is currently under review and open to a public comment period ending on January 11th, 2011 at 5pm.