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As the political support continues to grow for a gas well hydrofracturing facility in the Southern Tier, residents need to ask themselves what will be the long term effects on their environment and their lives due to hydrofracturing? Hydrofracturing requires huge amounts of limited natural resources. For example up to 2.5 million gallons of fresh drinking water per well (NYS DEC Marcellus Shale Environmental Impact Draft). There is the potential to have at least 100 new active drilling/hydrofracturing gas well rigs (and likely more) within a 20 mile radius of Watkins Glen on a yearly basis. Do residents just recovering from a long term drought want to pollute that much of their drinking water? Do residents want to leave in the ground all that waste water containing the toxins injected in the drilling/hydrofracturing process that can’t be recovered, including acids and glutaraldehyde an embalming fluid? And do residents really believe that this waste facility in Horseheads will be the only one in the area with this sort of potential for Marcellus Shale drilling/hydrofracturing activity? Roads will have to be cleared to the rig sites to transport all the heavy equipment necessary for all these rigs. What will this do to the pristine hillsides and meadows? It wasn’t too long ago that southern tier residents were complaining about unsightly wind turbines disrupting their environment. Was that just politics against green energy, competing against the status quo? And what about all the traffic and dangers involved in transporting these heavy rigs and toxic wastes over roads already inadequate for routine car traffic?