Comments On Fracking Regs Flood New York Environmental Regulators

How many people have written to New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation, as is weighs new rules allowing hydraulic fracturing within the Empire State’s slice of the Marcellus Shale?
More than 18,000, according to Gannett.

ALBANY — The responses came from Buffalo to Albany, Plattsburgh to Long Island, from across the Southern Tier and from as far away as Nevada.
Everyone from college students to senior citizens sent them in. A 6-year-old even responded. They were submitted online and written by hand, from elected officials to everyday citizens and business owners.
They are the 18,100 comments the state has received so far on its study of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, with each submission manually logged by Department of Environmental Conservation staff.

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