In a message dated 1/12/2010 8:34:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Just received the attached from Peter Gamba saying toxic waste from gas drilling is proposed to be injected into old well just above Keuka Lake, and town meeting to consider zoning change to accommodate it is TOMORROW!!! Wednesday, January 13 at 7 p.m. in Pulteney. Please send this to anyone who might be able to go to the meeting, including the press. Susan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Citizens for Protection of Health and Environment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CPHE?hl=en. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:21:20 EST Subject: Fwd: Fw: Keuka Lake Proposed Facility - Contaminated Water Disposal To: [email protected] FYI, this is in Stuben county about 1/2 mile from the Keuka lake shore and in the middle of vineyards. The town board meeting is tomorrow evening at 7 PM in Pulteney . It is an old gas well and the lease is still there so they are looking for a zoning change with A SEQA being negative. Most people found out about it today and the Activity is big. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:36:16 EST Subject: Fwd: Fw: Keuka Lake Proposed Facility - Contaminated Water Disposal To: [email protected] Carolyn, thanks for the note. Boy!, did we get the parties involved attention . concerned parties are involved. Peter -----Original Message----- To: [email protected] Subject: Fw: Keuka Lake Proposed Facility - Contaminated Water Disposal From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:14:23 +0000 Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ____________________________________ From: "Carolyn Schaeffer" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:18:35 -0500 To: Tom Close<[email protected]>; George Mathewson<[email protected]>; Vaughn Baker<[email protected]>; Ruth Young<[email protected]> Subject: FW: Keuka Lake Proposed Facility - Contaminated Water Disposal I just received this….there’s so much to do and I wanted to share the news with you. --Carolyn Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:32 PM To: Carolyn Schaeffer Subject: Keuka Lake Proposed Facility - Contaminated Water Disposal Hi Carolyn This is breaking news about a proposed natural gas contaminated wastewater disposal facility above Keuka Lake. Pass the news on to anyone you think might be interested. Don The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has received a permit application from a gas well exploration company that wants to establish a “State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System” above Keuka Lake. Chesapeake Appalachia wants to convert a deleted natural gas well in the Town of Pulteney to an injection well to be used as a polluted water disposal facility. Chesapeake intends to use the well for the disposal of contaminated wastewater associated with the exploration and production of natural gas. Plans call for a facility large enough to empty 6 tanker trucks at a time. It is expected that there will be much opposition to contaminated wastewater being disposed of a short distance above Keuka Lake. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has asked to be the lead agency for the environmental review for the Keuka Lake facility. Environmentalists, state regulators and even energy companies agree that the problem most likely to slow natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in New York is safely disposing of the billions of gallons of contaminated wastewater the industry will produce. There are only 6 injection wells licensed in New York to dispose of polluted water, only one of them is licensed to dispose of polluted water from gas exploration. Between 1,500 and 2,500 wells per year could eventually be drilled into the huge natural gas Marcellus Shale. It is estimated that each well will produce about 1.2 million gallons of wastewater that can contain chemicals introduced during the drilling process. A series of earthquakes last August in North Texas may have been caused by a Chesapeake wastewater disposal well connected to natural-gas production in the area. Chesapeake told state regulators that they had shut down two disposal wells "as a precautionary measure." Links Chesapeake's Keuka lake Application _http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/natural_gas/chesapeake_undergroun d_injection_control_program.pdf_ (http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/natural_gas/chesapeake_underground_injection_control_program.pdf) _http://www.propubl ica.org/feature/drill-wastewater-disposal-options-in-ny-report-have-problems-1229_ (http://www.propublica.org/feature/drill-wastewater-disposal-options-in-ny-report-have-problems-1229) _http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125020088034530363.html_ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125020088034530363.html) _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
