Fracking Public Comment Period Ends January 11, 2012

A reminder that the extended public comment period on the state Department of Environmental Conservation's deeply flawed fracking proposal, known as the "Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement" or ‘RSGEIS’, ends on January 11, 2012.

The decision if, how, when and where New York State would allow dirty gas drilling by means of high volume hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” is being made now, while the state's RSGEIS is out for public comment.

Environmental activists across the state have found that submitting comments on the state’s fracking proposals isn’t easy. 

You have a few short weeks left to submit comments, so if you haven’t done so, you can click here to submit them now.

Industrial gas drilling using the fracking method has poisoned drinking water supplies and resulted in toxic chemical spills in other American states where the practice has been permitted.

Tens of thousands of residents of New York State have called on our elected officials to ensure that, if fracking is permitted here, our precious natural resources will not be compromised as a result.