Comments on: Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been “Woefully Insufficient for Decades.” (Democracy Now) http://shaleshock.org/2009/11/watchdog-new-york-state-regulation-of-natural-gas-wells-has-been-%e2%80%9cwoefully-insufficient-for-decades%e2%80%9d-democracy-now/ Protecting our communities and environment from exploitative gas drilling of the Marcellus Shale Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:01:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: William Weaver http://shaleshock.org/2009/11/watchdog-new-york-state-regulation-of-natural-gas-wells-has-been-%e2%80%9cwoefully-insufficient-for-decades%e2%80%9d-democracy-now/comment-page-1/#comment-73 William Weaver Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:19:43 +0000 http://www.shaleshock.org/?p=966#comment-73 Dear Sir, Are you aware that many of the 270 oil and gas spills that you have documented are not involving the Natural Gas and Oil Industry? Any spills associated with "Texas Brine" "Akzo" "US Salt" and "Occidental" are spills that are associated with the extraction of NaCl (Table Salt) by solution mining. I would also like to add that many of these reported spills are associated with wells that were drilled, abandoned, or "plugged" prior to the exsistance of the DEC Department of Mineral Resources, and were drilled, completed, produced and abandoned prior to any form of laws or guidlines for the industry to follow in respect to environmental policy. In my opinion sir, you are guilty of feeding the gerneral public false information and half truths about an industry that here in NY has an excellent record when compared to others. You are also diminishing the excellent effort and safety record that the DEC has worked very hard to accomplish. I expect to never hear back from you, but I hope that you review your information and take seriously your resposibilities to not disinform the public on these sensitive areas. Sincerely William Weaver Dear Sir,

Are you aware that many of the 270 oil and gas spills that you have documented are not involving the Natural Gas and Oil Industry?

Any spills associated with “Texas Brine” “Akzo” “US Salt” and “Occidental” are spills that are associated with the extraction of NaCl (Table Salt) by solution mining.

I would also like to add that many of these reported spills are associated with wells that were drilled, abandoned, or “plugged” prior to the exsistance of the DEC Department of Mineral Resources, and were drilled, completed, produced and abandoned prior to any form of laws or guidlines for the industry to follow in respect to environmental policy.

In my opinion sir, you are guilty of feeding the gerneral public false information and half truths about an industry that here in NY has an excellent record when compared to others. You are also diminishing the excellent effort and safety record that the DEC has worked very hard to accomplish.

I expect to never hear back from you, but I hope that you review your information and take seriously your resposibilities to not disinform the public on these sensitive areas.

Sincerely
William Weaver

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