As with most industrial activities, gas drilling can be noisy. Though drilling and fracturing noise levels are expected to be similar for both vertically fractured wells and horizontally fractured wells, the longer duration of activity caused both by
the increased length of the wells themselves and the development of multiple wells on a pad is expected to make noise more of an issue withhorizontal drilling than vertical. As with habitat fragmentation, the overall sources of noise will be fewer than they would be with vertical drilling, but the noise disturbance from each individual well pad would
be greater. See table 1 for the NY DEC estimates of noises associated with gas wells.