Proposed Fracking ban in Delaware Basin doesn’t go far enough.
A state and federal commission took a step toward banning hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River watershed, but some environmentalists say the proposed rules don’t go far enough to protect the region’s water.
The Delaware River Basin Commission, which manages water resources in the 13,539-square-mile Delaware River watershed, issued draft rules that would prohibit hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the basin. The rules still would allow natural gas companies to use the basin’s fresh water for fracking and to return fracked wastewater to the region.
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Sample Comment: I congratulate the Commission that the new regulations will ban fracking for fossil fuels in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). However, I am concerned that these new regulations are not complete and leave our clean water at risk. I ask that there is a complete ban on the entire process of fracking including banning the use of the basin’s grease water for fracking and banning the return of liquid produced waste from fracking done outside the DRB. Both the production process and the waste process should simply be banned. It is not the mission for the Delaware River Basin Commission to approve mining activity elsewhere but it is their obligation to protect the water source used by millions of our citizens and the pristine environment of the Delaware River Basin.
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