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I just got the email from TU. For those that aren't on the mailing list:
The first permit to allow the Upper Delaware River water to be used for large-scale natural gas extraction will be considered at the Delaware River Basin Commission meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, July 15.
Please visit our online action center by tomorrow, July 15 and urge the Delaware River Basin Commission to reject an application from Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC to withdraw up to 1 million gallons of water per day from the West Branch of the Delaware River for natural gas drilling.
WHY WE CARE
Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, an energy company that is conducting natural gas drilling throughout the Marcellus Shale region, is requesting a permit to use up to one million gallons of water per day for hydraulic fracturing, the process by which natural gas is extracted from the Marcellus shale formation, deep underground. The withdrawal is proposed for the West Branch of the Delaware River just above the East Branch in Buckingham Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
The West Branch of the Delaware River is an extremely valuable wild trout fishery that would be adversely affected by a water withdrawal of this size. Trout Unlimited and other advocates for fisheries conservation have argued for years that the Upper Delaware River, including the West Branch Delaware River, suffers from inadequate flows.
The DRBC and its stakeholders are in the middle of a multi-year, expensive scientific analysis and review process to develop an updated management plan to better regulate reservoir releases and river levels. The development of an updated flow management plan has been the subject of intense public scrutiny. Introducing the variable of additional water withdrawals to this complex process that seeks to balance water supply, ecological health, and the recreation-based economy of the region is unwise at this time. This additional withdrawal could, over time, have long lasting negative effects on the fishery.
In addition, Chesapeake Appalachia , LLC has not adequately developed an operational plan that indicates that the fish and other wildlife will not be affected by the company’s water withdrawal mechanisms. The Delaware River, one of the finest wild trout fisheries in the East, simply cannot afford to be an experiment for water withdrawals and potential toxic contamination related to natural gas drilling activities.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Please urge the Delaware River Basin Commission to reject the water withdrawal permit by Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC at its July 15 meeting. Visit our online action center and take action before July 15, 2009.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or for more information.
Steve Moyer
Vice President for Government Affairs
TROUT UNLIMITED
703-284-9406
smoyer@tu.org
If the links above don't work:
Protect the Delaware River Basin | Trout Unlimited - Conserving coldwater fisheries
The first permit to allow the Upper Delaware River water to be used for large-scale natural gas extraction will be considered at the Delaware River Basin Commission meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, July 15.
WHY WE CARE
Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, an energy company that is conducting natural gas drilling throughout the Marcellus Shale region, is requesting a permit to use up to one million gallons of water per day for hydraulic fracturing, the process by which natural gas is extracted from the Marcellus shale formation, deep underground. The withdrawal is proposed for the West Branch of the Delaware River just above the East Branch in Buckingham Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
The West Branch of the Delaware River is an extremely valuable wild trout fishery that would be adversely affected by a water withdrawal of this size. Trout Unlimited and other advocates for fisheries conservation have argued for years that the Upper Delaware River, including the West Branch Delaware River, suffers from inadequate flows.
The DRBC and its stakeholders are in the middle of a multi-year, expensive scientific analysis and review process to develop an updated management plan to better regulate reservoir releases and river levels. The development of an updated flow management plan has been the subject of intense public scrutiny. Introducing the variable of additional water withdrawals to this complex process that seeks to balance water supply, ecological health, and the recreation-based economy of the region is unwise at this time. This additional withdrawal could, over time, have long lasting negative effects on the fishery.
In addition, Chesapeake Appalachia , LLC has not adequately developed an operational plan that indicates that the fish and other wildlife will not be affected by the company’s water withdrawal mechanisms. The Delaware River, one of the finest wild trout fisheries in the East, simply cannot afford to be an experiment for water withdrawals and potential toxic contamination related to natural gas drilling activities.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Please urge the Delaware River Basin Commission to reject the water withdrawal permit by Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC at its July 15 meeting. Visit our online action center and take action before July 15, 2009.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or for more information.
Steve Moyer
Vice President for Government Affairs
TROUT UNLIMITED
703-284-9406
smoyer@tu.org
If the links above don't work:
Protect the Delaware River Basin | Trout Unlimited - Conserving coldwater fisheries
