No environmental impacts? What about these?

Project description:
• 124.4 miles long
• 18 miles of access roads
• 1,862 acres of land would be
torn apart during construction

Almost all of the proposed pipeline route would cross sensitive or difficult terrain:

36 miles of interior forest - 29% of entire route
277 bodies of water
35.1 miles of steep & side slopes - 28% of entire route
45.43 miles of shallow bedrock - 37% of entire route
10.7 miles of wetlands - 9% of entire route
(This will be higher as 25% of parcels have not been surveyed.)
555.34 acres of prime and "statewide important" farmland
33.35 miles in agricultural districts - 27% of entire route

Major Environmental Impacts Expected

NYS DEC (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation)

Hundreds of thousands of mature trees would be cut
Forest fragmentation
Soil compaction
Restricts crops that could be grown
Noise, structural damage, and aquifer contamination from blasting and jack hammers
Water quality degradation
Creates a pathway for storm runoff

CUMULATIVE IMPACTS

Add your own in your comments to FERC

You should submit comments on all of the "reasonably foreseeable" cumulative impacts caused by fracking and industrial development. Assume that gas drilling would take place in the yellow study area according to the rules in the NYS DEC's Draft SGEIS:

There could be 16 wells per square mile - per formation. Since there are two formations in the yellow study area (Utica and Marcellus), there could be 32 wells per square mile
The average size of each well pad is 3.5 acres, plus access roads and gathering lines
It would take 6,700 truck trips to construct ONE pad and frack ONE well
Where would the drill cuttings and waste water go? In Pennsylvania, producing gas wells are as much as 25 miles from a high pressure gas transmission line
A pipe must be laid from each well to a transmission line
Compressor stations are located every 2-4 miles along major gathering lines