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Learn from PA, Don't Frack with New York

Published Februaay 18, 2011: HuffingtonPost.com

Jerrold Parker, Partner-Parker Waichman LLP

If you've ever seen homeowners in Pennsylvania set their tap water aflame as it pours from the faucet, you know the dangers of hydraulic fracturing. These are risks to which -- until recently -- New York has turned a blind eye.

So it's encouraging to see New York municipalities like Buffalo taking it upon themselves to ban the practice within their borders. While this is largely symbolic move, it sends a powerful message to Albany -- that the state must heed the hazards of "hydrofracking" and take aggressive steps to protect the state's most precious resource -- drinking water.

Governor Cuomo must make a bold departure from the tepid regulatory efforts of the previous administration. Recently, outgoing-Governor Paterson imposed a 7-month moratorium on the practice, vetoing a broader bill passed by the state legislature. But this so-called anti-fracking win largely rung hollow.

Read More: Fracking in New York Hits a Snag

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Parker Waichman LLP Partners with Ohio Law Firm in Counterclaim Against Duck Creek Energy's Defamation Lawsuit

Apr 4, 2012 | Parker Waichman LLP
Parker Waichman LLP has joined with Ohio-based law firm, Climaco, Wilcox, Peca, Tarantino & Garofoli Co., LPA, to file a counterclaim in a defamation lawsuit brought against two Ohio women by Duck Creek Energy, Inc.  Duck Creek alleges that the defendants' voicing of concerns regarding the environmental and health impact of their municipality’s use of a road deicing product manufactured by Duck Creek Energy, Inc. constitutes defamation. In their counterclaim, Tish O'Dell and...
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Parker Waichman LLP Tapped for Ohio Fracking Lawsuits

Mar 15, 2012 | Parker Waichman LLP
Parker Waichman LLP and the Ohio law firm of Climaco, Wilcox, Peca, Tarantino & Garofoli Co., LPA are representing two Medina County, Ohio couples who allege drilling and fracking activities being performed by Landmark 4 LLC near their property polluted their drinking water wells.  Among other things, the couples' are seeking to have Landmark 4 pay for a court-established and supervised medical monitoring program because they allege the pollution from the company’s fracking...
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Critics Say New York Proposed Fracking Regulations Fall Short on Wastewater Disposal

Feb 21, 2012 | Parker Waichman LLP
Environmentalists in New York are criticizing the state's proposed fracking regulations for failing to adequately address the disposal of millions of gallons of wastewater that will likely be produced by natural gas wells once hydraulic fracturing is permitted in the state.  The New York Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) draft regulations would allow three options for disposing of fracking wastewater, but drillers would ultimately choose which to use. According to a report...
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Fracking Water Contamination Lawsuits Mount

Feb 1, 2012 | Parker Waichman LLP
Since August 2009, nearly two dozen lawsuits have been filed throughout the country by property owners who claim natural gas drilling via hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has contaminated water supplies.  According to a report from Bloomberg News, the lawsuits name some of the biggest frackers in the industry as defendants, including Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Southwest Energy Company.Perhaps the most famous lawsuit filed so far was brought in Pennsylvania, by...
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Physicians Want Pause on Fracking

Jan 10, 2012 | Parker Waichman LLP
It's time to put a hold on fracking in the U.S. until its health impacts are better understood, some medical doctors say.  The physicians were all attending a conference in Arlington, Virginia that’s the first to examine criteria for studying hydraulic fracturing, a controversial process of natural gas extraction."We are leaping before we are looking," said Jerome Paulson, of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment.  "Those who are drilling and...
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