High-volume hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” received a huge boost on Sept. 7 when the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) published a revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS),1 announced a 90-day public comment period, declared its intention to issue draft regulations in October, and indicated that it plans to hold four public hearings in November about the SGEIS and the draft regulations.
Fracking, a well stimulation technique that is used to extract natural gas from very tight rock, involves the controlled use of water and chemical additives, pumped under pressure into a cased and cemented wellbore.2 In New York, the primary target for shale-gas development is the Marcellus Shale, which underlies about 18,700 square miles of the southern tier from the Catskills to the western part of the state. The deeper Utica Shale also has been identified as a potential target for shale-gas development; it underlies 28,500 square miles from the Adirondacks to the southern tier and east to the Catskills.3 Low-permeability reservoirs also may be appropriate for development by high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
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