What’s Good for the Great Lakes Goose …
Posted by feww on October 24, 2009
Quotes for the Day:
NYC Water Pollution and NatGas Drilling
“The nine million New York residents who depend upon Catskill-Delaware water deserve the same amount of protection as those New Yorkers who depend upon Great Lakes surface waters.” —New York City’s acting environmental commissioner
It would cost the city an estimated $10 billion to build a filtration and treatment plant, which would cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year to maintain, cleaning the pollution that would be created as a result of natgas drilling near the upstate watershed, which supplies 90 percent of its drinking water. That’s a 30 percent hike in water and sewer rates for the New Yorkers.
“This is not a risk that is worth taking when we are talking about something as fundamental as the city’s water supply… We didn’t have the money to do that before the recession, and we certainly don’t have the money to do it now.” —City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
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