The Atlantic Chapter opposes unconventional gas extraction practices in New York State as it is now practiced, and as it is proposed in the dSGEIS, because such practices and proposals:
- endanger water supplies and critical watersheds;
- imperil human health;
- seriously damage important wild land resources;
- significantly increase habitat fragmentation;
- use fracking fluids that pose unacceptable toxic risks;
- do not disclose the identity and volume of fracking fluids;
- do not properly treat, manage, and account for fracking fluids, drilling muds, and wastewater;
- do not adequately protect drinking water aquifers and surface waters from contamination; and
- will cause violations of air quality standards, individually and cumulatively