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Article: Water gas drilling dredges up controversy.
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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Queens Councilman James Gennaro spoke out last week against drilling for natural gas near the watershed that provides drinking water for New York City.
Gas companies are eager to tap the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation more than a mile below the ground under parts of Appalachia, including regions of upstate New York where the city receives its water.
Interest in tapping the shale has grown in recent years because of advances in the techniques used to extract the hard to reach gas and vastly swelling projections of how much of the prized natural resource may be trapped in the porous stone. The soaring cost of energy in recent months added urgency to the ...