The State Department recently released its second Environmental Impact Study, where they referenced several no-action alternatives.
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He said their findings are included in the latest revision of the environmental impact study.
On the surface, Mr. Waxman appears to be requesting nothing more than a more detailed environmental impact study before proceeding.
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The forestry department ordered pre-production to stop in November for an environmental impact study, but ruled last month any damage would be repairable.
The Department of Environmental Conservation had faced a deadline Wednesday to complete its comprehensive environmental impact study of drilling for gas using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Marcellus Protest, a local group that's critical of the drilling industry, complained about a lack of hearings in nearby communities and that no environmental impact study was done in advance.
New York has had a statewide moratorium on gas drilling that uses high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, since the Department of Environmental Conservation began an environmental impact study and regulatory overhaul in 2008.
As unthinkable as that proposal sounds to modern ears, in those days no one had even conceived of an environmental impact study and upstream towns along the river turned out to be no match for big city political power.
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But if the Department of Health review "finds that there is a public health concern that has not been assessed in the (environmental impact study) or properly mitigated, we would not proceed, as I have stated in the past, " Martens said.
"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.
Gipson and three other senators also wrote to Cuomo in February raising questions about the seismology study included in DEC's environmental impact review, saying the study's leader had industry ties.
The ongoing study on the environmental impact of industrial development around Lumbini was also reviewed and the final findings of the study will be shared later.
They have a grant to study the environmental impact of a new commuter tunnel, being built under the strait.
But Martens said issuing of permits for shale gas drilling could begin even while regulations are being finished, if the Health Department's review finds the Environmental Conservation Department's impact study adequately addresses health concerns.
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But the fiscal cliff threatens energy development as well as energy use the DOE would lose funding for its own research, plus grants and loans for energy innovation in the private sector, while the Bureau of Land Management would likely be less able to study the environmental impact of things like siting solar farms or leasing oil rights.
An environmental study is required to establish what the impact of drilling will be on the local ecosystem.
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