NJ.com: Upper Delaware River named nation's most endangered river


The Delaware River
Photo courtesy of David Wheeler, Edison Wetlands Association

An advocacy group has named the Upper Delaware River the nation's most endangered. American Rivers said the Upper Delaware is threatened by plans to drill for natural gas. Energy companies have leased thousands of acres of land in the Delaware watershed in hopes of tapping vast stores of gas in the Marcellus shale rock formation.

Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 6/6/2010 10:00 AM
Categories: Resources, Nature News Links, Conservation
Tags: Delaware River natural gas endangered watershed drilling
 

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