Voltage blog entries tagged with: water

I've been hearing about the massive amount of gas in the Marcellus Shale that stretches into upstate New York. While domestic natural gas supplies are all well and good, the well drilling is seriously damaging to the environment, and the companies that do it seem hell bent on doing it their way. They've managed to skirt by regulations that 'don't apply' to the natural gas industry etc. There seems to a pretty good groundswell of support for New York State actually restricting the drilling companies from having their way with the land.

And there's a in-progress documentary film that has some amazing footage of tap water from a sink that's become flammable due to local well drilling.

And a good article in Planning about how drilling affects communities, and how to plan for it.