At the NYT, there is this story:

New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies By CLIFFORD KRAUSS Published: October 9, 2009

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel. Italian and Norwegian oil engineers and geologists have arrived in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to learn how to extract gas from layers of a black rock called shale.

The author:

"Clifford Krauss has been a correspondent for The New York Times since 1990. He currently is a national business correspondent based in Houston. "

A version of this article appeared in print on October 10, 2009, on page A1 of the New York edition.

The author made no mention of polluting the water supply for New Yorkers.

Looking at the Times search results for 'shale' one can find links to these results:

Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering

Comments on this, mentioning shale

Live in NYC?

Consider yourself screwed. Did you know that NYC water is so pure, it does not need to be filtered?

You can thank George Bush. See? Not only did his administration shit into your hamburgers, they enabled corporations like KBR to take a chemical piss into your water.

Republicans must be so proud.