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Standing On The Shale

I'm not an advocate of drilling for anything.  
My brother owns 50 acres and is looking to sign a lease with one of the many companies courting all upstate NY and PA landowners.
From what he has learned, many of these companies employ a "closed loop" technology.  
Since water is more and more expensive, and even costlier to clean, they have found a way to reuse this water and move it from site to site, rather than single-use options of millions of gallons each time.
Plus, during drilling, there are 3 separate encasements for the drill to be housed in, to avoid ruining water tables - if it ruins a water well, it ruins the gas one as well.  That's pricey for them.
If landowners are smart - which too many aren't - they will force these gas companies to expose themselves to huge environmental liabilities through the leases they sign.  
It's not fail-safe, but protections can occur.  
As for NYC's water - talk to upstate NY'rs about NYC water and you'll hear many who could care less.  Upstate pays for NYC's waste of that pure water they deem so precious.  But that's another story entirely.On NYC officials fear natural-gas drilling would taint water supplies posted 1 year, 2 months ago 2 Responses