Water
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:34 am
Looks like staff shortages at the DEC are delaying the completion of a review of the agency's plans for Marcellus shale gas drilling until at least late summer right in the middle of campaign season. From the Ithaca Journal:
"As with every agency, we are... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 9:14 pm
Looks like GOP hopeful Steve Levy wants to make it a campaign issue:
“The folks up here in this region I see like the potential of economic development and they are going to monitor this because this is their drinking water and lake systems. We've got to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 11:15 pm
A slide from a presentation by James Richenderfer, of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, showing the number of "high value" trout streams in the Marcellus Shale.
Academics, consultants, and executives from Shell agreed at a government-sponsored... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 8:48 pm
American shad, once plentiful in the Hudson and the smaller rivers they return to each year to spawn, have suffered tremendous declines in recent years--so much so that the NY DEC declared them off-limits in the Hudson this year.
Nevertheless, the guides... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 11:04 am
Over the weekend, the DEP, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers and Trout Unlimited restored a riverbank along a section of Horton Brook. Here's the DEP press release.
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 10, 2010 - 10:24 pm
The DEP recently announced the purchase of another 1,026 acres of land in New York City's west-of-Hudson watershed, prompting howls of outrage from the usual suspects.
Dean Frazier, Delaware County Watershed affairs commissioner, spoke at a public... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 10:24 pm
Nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica, whose reporter Abraham Lustgarten has been writing exclusively about the risks of horizontal natural gas drilling since 2008, has a new gas story today. At hand: the EPA's upcoming two-year study of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 8:07 pm
Ah, the miracle of modern digital photography. This may look like an Instamatic print from a battered box marked "Spring 1967," but this nostalgia-hued snapshot of the ice on North-South Lake was taken last week.
Photo by Flickr user Catskills Grrl. All... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 5:14 pm
It turns out that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's crusade on behalf of New York City drinking water only targeted about 10 percent of the drugs that humans flush down the toilet. The other 90 percent, according to an article in Time Magazine this... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 9:38 am
Updated DEP regulations, in the works for several years, went into effect over the weekend. The Daily Freeman has a story.
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