We don't want to waste time... we’re not dallying in our review of this.
(01/13/12) The State's environmental commissioner estimates the agency has received 40,000 comments in the public comment period on proposed hydrofracking in New York, which ended Wednesday. In Albany, Karen DeWitt has the details.
Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe
Martens says one day after the public comment period has closed, his staff is
still opening boxes. He expects the number of comments on a draft
environmental impact statement for hydrofracking in New York State to reach
40,000.
Commissioner Martens says all of the comments will be soon
be posted on the DEC website, but he can’t say how long it will take to review
them all. He says the process will likely take “months,” but not years.
“We don’t want to waste time either,” said Martens. “We’re not dallying in our review of this.”
Martens says the future of fracking in New York is yet to be
determined. He says there could be “new information” in the comments that the
DEC has not yet heard of, and he does not want to “prejudge” the process.
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