Sloppy Redaction in SGEIS reveals a KETTLE-O-WORMS!

You are going to love this!
Another SGEIS gem!

A September SGEIS Easter Egg for you:

I got a hot tip about this one.

1. Check your computer for a copy of the Sept 2011 SGEIS.
   
   If you don't have a copy already, you can get it here:
   http://www.dec.ny.gov/data/dmn/rdsgeisfull0911.pdf
    
2. Search for the text: "1.2.3 Case studies of fracturing fluid migration".
   
   The phrase is found, but there is no apparent matching text on the page!
   Huh?
    
3. It's on page 1359. Appendix 11.
   
   Do you see the top of the page is blank?
   

   

   The page as it appears in the 9-2011 SGEIS...
   Why is the top of the page blank?

   
   
   
   Use your cursor to grab, and move(*) the white box covering the redacted text.
   Or turn off that layer.
   
   (* may need Acrobat Pro to move the redaction box)
    

   

   THE REVEAL: Hmm!
   What's that text lurking under the white box?

   
   
    
4. If that doesn't work, don't worry!
   You can read that section in the original document:
   
   http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Publications/Research-and-Development-Technical-Reports/Other-Technical-Reports/-/media/Files/Publications/PPSER/NYSERDA/ng/icf-task-1.ashx
   
   
5. Here is the redacted text:
   

   

   The Redacted Text

   
   Excerpt from ICF International, Inc.'s document, "Technical Assistance for the Draft
   Supplemental Generic EIS: Oil, Gas andSolution Mining Regulatory Program Well Permit
   Issuance for Horizontal Drillingand High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing to Develop the
   Marcellus Shale and Other Low Permeability Gas Reservoirs", 7 August 2009,
   submitted to NYSERDA under Agreement No. 9679:
   
   1.2.3 Case studies of fracturing fluid migration
   

   The literature review performed as part of the present study did not identify any published case histories or studies that included direct observation of the migration of frac fluids in hydraulically fractured shale.
   
   .... (snip)...

    
6. But it turns out these same consultants, KNEW OTHERWISE!
   
   The amazing William C. Fischer has already written a paper
   on the nexus between the SGEIS authorship, and errors and omissions
   in the document, and analyzes this section in particular:
   
   SGEIS MONKEY BUSINESS:http://hydrorelief.org/uploads/2/8/8/9/2889522/monkey_business.pdf
   
   
7. So let us add ONE + ONE together and see what we get.  OK?
   
   First ONE: Major media message on all streams: Fracking is Safe!
   There has NEVER BEEN ONE CASE of groundwater contamination!
   This is repeated 10,000 times.
   
   So the NYSDEC (on behalf of We the People)
   gives tax payer money to Industry Consults
   who say jubulantly, YES! Fracking is Safe!
   Not One Case, EVER, Anywhere!!
   
   Second ONE: NYSDEC Redacts that same claim when they published the consultants work in the official draft of the document!
   
   What is NYSDEC trying to hide with this redaction?

BH

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