Uploaded December 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A powerful public comment that was ignored at the SRBC meeting in Wilkes-Barre on December 15, 2011
The manager of project review for the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Dehoff - with the help of his staff - is responsible for recommending to the commission whether to approve water withdrawals from the basin.
That includes suggesting whether the commission should allow natural gas companies to withdraw water used for the controversial drilling and hydraulic fracturing of gas wells.
In front of more than 50 people at the commission's meeting Thursday morning at the East Mountain Inn just outside of Wilkes-Barre, Dehoff made it about halfway through his recommendations before the cacophony of boos and chanting forced commission Chairwoman Kelly Heffner to threaten to clear the room, hastily adopt all of Dehoff's recommendations and adjourn the meeting early.
While the crowd of gas drilling protestors chanted phrases such as "river basin community" and "this is a crisis," Heffner appeared to make a motion, and the commission unanimously approved 12 companies' requests to use a maximum total of nearly 18 million gallons of water per day with certain restrictions for gas drilling-related purposes. The entire list of Pennsylvania water contaminations from fracking. files.dep.state.pa.us/OilGas/BOGM/BOGMPortalFiles/OilGasReports/Determination_Letters/Regional_Determination_Letters.pdf
A powerful public comment that was ignored at the SRBC meeting in Wilkes-Barre on December 15, 2011
The manager of project review for the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Dehoff - with the help of his staff - is responsible for recommending to the commission whether to approve water withdrawals from the basin.
That includes suggesting whether the commission should allow natural gas companies to withdraw water used for the controversial drilling and hydraulic fracturing of gas wells.
In front of more than 50 people at the commission's meeting Thursday morning at the East Mountain Inn just outside of Wilkes-Barre, Dehoff made it about halfway through his recommendations before the cacophony of boos and chanting forced commission Chairwoman Kelly Heffner to threaten to clear the room, hastily adopt all of Dehoff's recommendations and adjourn the meeting early.
While the crowd of gas drilling protestors chanted phrases such as "river basin community" and "this is a crisis," Heffner appeared to make a motion, and the commission unanimously approved 12 companies' requests to use a maximum total of nearly 18 million gallons of water per day with certain restrictions for gas drilling-related purposes. The entire list of Pennsylvania water contaminations from fracking. files.dep.state.pa.us/OilGas/BOGM/BOGMPortalFiles/OilGasReports/Determination_Letters/Regional_Determination_Letters.pdf
