Delaware River Basin Commission
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 4:28 pm
Above: Water shoes, anyone? Didymo warning on a pole near the Shandaken Tunnel at the Esopus Creek. Blooms of the noxious algae already coat the bottom of the creek. Photo by Daniel Case on Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons license.
It's been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 - 9:40 am
Just days after the U.S. government asked a federal judge to dismiss an anti-hydraulic-fracturing lawsuit filed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a coalition of environmental groups has filed its own similar lawsuit, thereby giving the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 7, 2011 - 11:45 am
Photo of crowd outside last week's DRBC hearing in Deposit by Lillian Browne.
On Wednesday, June 1, the Delaware River Basin Commission held a public hearing in Deposit to discuss whether or not the agency should grant XTO Energy a permit to withdraw... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jun. 5, 2011 - 9:08 am
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman takes on the DRBC in federal court.
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. To see Gary's artwork in person, check out... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 9:01 am
Yesterday's Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) hearing at Deposit High School was packed, according to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin. The topic under discussion was XTO Energy's request to withdraw water from Broome County's Oquaga Creek to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 - 7:44 pm
Remember when New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman threatened back in April to sue the federal government over hydraulic fracturing? He meant it.
The New York Daily News Daily Politics blog has posted the complaint that Schneiderman filed today... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 25, 2011 - 3:24 pm
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Above: The approximate location of the area XTO Energy is seeking to take water from, in the town of Sanford, Broome County. From Google Maps.
As we reported earlier this month, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) is weighing... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 17, 2011 - 2:28 pm
We're launching a new feature on the Watershed Post today: Letters to the Editor, which will appear as their own menu item on our menu bar above. Our first letter is from Ron Urban, who wrote us in response to a looming deadline facing the Delaware River... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 11, 2011 - 8:11 pm
Yesterday, we reported that the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) was considering granting a permit to ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy to withdraw water for hydraulic fracturing from a trout stream in Broome County. According to a press release from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 10, 2011 - 2:37 pm
We'll find out tomorrow whether the Delaware River Basin Commission will allow water from the Oquaga Creek, a trout stream that drains into the West Branch of the Delaware River, to be used in hydraulic fracturing projects in Delaware and Broome counties... Read more
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