What simpering genius came up with the idea of a ban?
Assembly pauses fracking permits
Albany TU | By CASEY SEILER State editor
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Excerpt:
ALBANY — Arguing that the state needs more time to assess the potential effects of the natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking, the state Assembly on Monday passed a moratorium on the issuance of new permits until June 1, 2012.
The measure would cover drilling for oil as well as gas, and would cover vertical drilling using hydrofracking — a method already in use around the state — as well as the horizontal drilling that the drilling industry wants to begin using to tap the Marcellus and Utica shale formations, massive gas-bearing regions that stretch from Pennsylvania into New York’s Southern Tier.
The measure passed the Assembly 91-46, according to a preliminary tally. It faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where the narrow Republican majority views natural gas drilling as a major economic opportunity for hard-pressed upstate regions.
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“What simpering genius came up with the idea of a ban?”
So say we all.
Greenies were complaining about reclaimed fracking water, having dissolved naturally occurring radioactive minerals such as thorium, being pumped into sewage systems. If this really was resulting in an unmanageable or unsafe situation, the solution of reusing the fracking water at other fracking sites would seem simple and obvious enough.
What simpering genius came up with the idea of a ban?
People who have their own water wells that are expensive and fragile.