http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/cuomo/coalition_letter/2011
Walter Hang is one of the most important leaders of the anti-fracking movement in New York. He lives and works in Ithaca where he created http://toxicstargeting.com/. He has asked us to sign a new coalition letter he drafted to Gov. Cuomo. Please read the letter and its important supporting information. Then please sign the letter. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU SIGN THIS LETTER (click on the red link below).
Thank you, and thanks to Walter Hang for his amazing energy, knowledge and concern for New Yorkers.
Note: Over 10,000 letters have been sent to Gov. Cuomo Please send the url on to others to sign. Thank you. Steven Foster
http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/cuomo/coalition_letter/2011
Also, this Video interview by Walter Hang is included as supporting material for his letter. It is regarding gas contamination and the DEC's refusal to acknowledge it. This will surely inspire you to sign the letter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ka0QJaKZ4s
Also:
SEE: Walter Hang's Canandaigua Senate Hearing Testimony on Hydrofracking waste. I have excerpted an part of the hearing that relates directly to Canandaigua's 9 year invovement with receiving frack waste from PA. (the red in my emphasis) Steven Foster
Gas Drilling Wastewater Discharged to POTWsTens of millions of gallons of gas drilling wastewater have been discharged to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) that are neither designed, constructed nor maintained to be able to break down or remove gas drilling wastewater pollutants. This is an extremely important public policy matter that must be fully resolved prior to permitting horizontal hydrofracturing in New York’s tight shale.Gas drilling wastewater is fundamentally incompatible with the “secondary” biological treatment systems employed by virtually all municipal treatment systems in New York to break down human sewage. These “activated sludge” and “trickling filter” or “biotower” systems promote the growth of bacteria that degrade human wastewater components.Many of the constituents of gas drilling wastewater resist biological degradation and “pass through” into receiving bodies of water, concentrate in residual biosolids, or sludge, and can pose hazards to treatment plant workers.It is entirely appropriate that your hearing is being held today in Canandaigua because the Canandaigua Wastewater Treatment Facility reportedly received 177,000 gallons of gas drilling wastewater generated in Pennsylvania by EOG Resources, Inc. without knowing the source of the wastewater.The facility reportedly stopped accepting all gas drilling wastewater in September 2009. Prior to that time, it had reportedly accepted gas drilling wastewater for up to nine years.Canandaguia exemplifies how toxic gas drilling wastewater has been discharged to POTWs in New York's Finger Lakes Region without approved pretreatment programs and in contravention of pretreatment and other regulatory requirements. This illustrates the fundamental inadequacy of New York's enforcement efforts regarding treatment of gas drilling wastewater. Unfortunately, Canandaguia is by no means the only facility in the region that accepted gas drilling wastewater.
Gas Drilling Wastewater Discharged to POTWs
Tens of millions of gallons of gas drilling wastewater have been discharged to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) that are neither designed, constructed nor maintained to be able to break down or remove gas drilling wastewater pollutants. This is an extremely important public policy matter that must be fully resolved prior to permitting horizontal hydrofracturing in New York’s tight shale.
Gas drilling wastewater is fundamentally incompatible with the “secondary” biological treatment systems employed by virtually all municipal treatment systems in New York to break down human sewage. These “activated sludge” and “trickling filter” or “biotower” systems promote the growth of bacteria that degrade human wastewater components.
Many of the constituents of gas drilling wastewater resist biological degradation and “pass through” into receiving bodies of water, concentrate in residual biosolids, or sludge, and can pose hazards to treatment plant workers.
It is entirely appropriate that your hearing is being held today in Canandaigua because the Canandaigua Wastewater Treatment Facility reportedly received 177,000 gallons of gas drilling wastewater generated in Pennsylvania by EOG Resources, Inc. without knowing the source of the wastewater.
The facility reportedly stopped accepting all gas drilling wastewater in September 2009. Prior to that time, it had reportedly accepted gas drilling wastewater for up to nine years.
Canandaguia exemplifies how toxic gas drilling wastewater has been discharged to POTWs in New York's Finger Lakes Region without approved pretreatment programs and in contravention of pretreatment and other regulatory requirements. This illustrates the fundamental inadequacy of New York's enforcement efforts regarding treatment of gas drilling wastewater. Unfortunately, Canandaguia is by no means the only facility in the region that accepted gas drilling wastewater.
