Upper Delaware Council Responds to Natural Gas Drilling Regulations

Upper Delaware Council (UDC) approved a letter to the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) stating natural gas drilling should be considered as “heavy industrial uses” therefore not compatible with the river.

The letter refers to the 1986 River Management Plan for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River. “We do not believe that [the Plan] ever envisioned horizontal drilling or high-volume, slick-water hydraulic fracturing,”  it says in the letter.

The entire seven page letter can be read at: http://www.upperdelawarecouncil.org/press/pdfs/UDC_03032011_DRBC_NGDR.pdf