Fracking Infrastructure
"An area that's gotten little notice, for example, is the state Department of Transportation and the effect fracking will have on our roads, bridges and related infrastructure. As the voluminous draft generic environmental impact statement makes clear, the DOT has been working for years to anticipate the costs and problems fracking and the resulting explosion of truck traffic would bring to our roads. The dollar figures they reveal, even in a general way, are staggering. Listed are the many local roads and secondary bridges, along with their state analogs, in Broome, Tioga and Chemung counties that would likely need major maintenance or replacement. That would be to the tune of $28 million to $31 million each for the bridges, and $300,000 and up per lane mile of pavement.
"A fracking truck on those roads is equivalent to 9,000 passenger cars in terms of wear and tear. Those are the DOT's amazing statistics, not mine. What is equally amazing, or appalling, is that the DOT has no regulatory power over this extraordinary drilling industry invited into our state. The best they can wangle is some sort of road use agreement for paying for damage and wear. Once again, the drilling industry is privatizing the profits, socializing the costs."
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/End-of-the-anti-frack-world-near-3763195.php
"A fracking truck on those roads is equivalent to 9,000 passenger cars in terms of wear and tear. Those are the DOT's amazing statistics, not mine. What is equally amazing, or appalling, is that the DOT has no regulatory power over this extraordinary drilling industry invited into our state. The best they can wangle is some sort of road use agreement for paying for damage and wear. Once again, the drilling industry is privatizing the profits, socializing the costs."
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/End-of-the-anti-frack-world-near-3763195.php