[Comment: Markell had been dodging and weaving on this issue for months. There’s no way he would have stalled fracking in the Delaware River basin—the DRBC meeting has been cancelled as the drilling industry doesn’t have the votes right now—without a lot of effective organizing. A key underlying problem is that fracking has been exempted from the Clean Water Act.
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"Fracking" Proposal Currently Lacks Sufficient Health and Safety Protections
Delaware will vote "No" at Monday meeting of the Delaware River Basin Commission
WILMINGTON — The proposed regulations that would authorize drilling and hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") to begin in the Delaware River Basin lack critical details on how public health and safety would be protected, Governor Jack Markell wrote today in a letter to the other voting members of the Delaware River Basin Commission.
In the letter, Markell made clear that Delaware’s representative would vote against the Natural Gas Development Regulations at the Commission’s meeting in Trenton this Monday.