Some more stats on fracking in New York
state that don't paint a pretty picture of the state's oversight of oil
and gas drilling. Bet you didn't know that New York currently has about
10,000 active oil and gas wells already (I for one didn't have that
stat on the tip of my tongue).
The pretty damning part, coming via a new report from Earthworks,
is that more than 75% of these active wells aren't inspected on an
annual basis, with the rate of inspections decreasingly markedly in
about the past ten years.
From 2001-2010 there were roughly 1000
new wells drilled in New York, will the overall number of inspections
dropped by more than 1000. In fact, the inspection rate in New York is
lower than Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, with those wells that are
inspected facing less stringent inspection protocol than in other
states. Read more:http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/75-percent-new-york-states-oil-gas-wells-go-uninspected-every-year.html
