ANGA Statement on the Release of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement

摘要

2011 SEP 23 - (VerticalNews.com) -- Today, the New York Department ofrnEnvironmental Conservation released its revised draft Supplemental Generic EnvironmentalrnImpact Statement as part of its ongoing effort to proceed with safe and responsible developmentrnof natural gas in the state. The draft, released, includes a socioeconomic analysis of the potentialrnimpact of such a move, whose "average-development scenario" estimates that in the peakrndevelopment years, the proposed drilling could account for nearly 54,000 direct and indirectrnjobs and bring over $2.4 billion in earnings to workers in the state of New York. Following isrnthe statement from Tom Amontree, executive vice president for America's Natural Gas Alliancern(ANGA).