Elimination of sections 327 and 328 [of the Safe Water Drinking Act] would not make production of oil and natural gas in the United States any safer, but could substantially increase domestic oil and natural gas production costs, thereby decreasing domestic supply.
David E. Bolin, deputy director of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama, representing the Board, the State of Alabama, and other member States of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, an organization formerly headed by Governor Sarah Palin, regarding Safe Water Drinking Act pertinence to hydraulic fracturing. From the Testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing on Oil and Gas Exemptions in Federal Environmental Protections .
