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NEW YORK TO BAN FRACKING; ENVIRONMENTALISTS CHEER
Breitbart Big Government ^ | December 17,2014 | by BREITBART NEWS

Posted on 12/17/2014 6:17:38 PM PST by Hojczyk

Handing environmentalists a breakthrough victory, New York plans to prohibit fracking for natural gas because of what regulators say are its unexplored health risks and dubious economic benefits.

New York, which overlies part of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation that has led to a drilling boom in Pennsylvania and other nearby states, has banned shale gas development since 2008, when the state began an environmental review of the drilling technique also known as hydraulic fracturing.

Wednesday's announcement, though not final, means a ban is all but etched in stone. "Never before has a state with proven gas reserves banned fracking," said Deborah Goldberg, an attorney with Earthjustice, adding that the decision "will give courage to elected leaders throughout the country and world:

Fracking is too dangerous and must not continue." Industry and its supporters expressed outrage at the decision. "We are very disappointed that it appears the governor is unwilling to be a leader and is going to pass the buck at the expense of New Yorkers," said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.

"This technology has been used for over 65 years in the United States. It's been demonstrated repeatedly after drilling millions of wells that we're able to do it while protecting the environment and protecting the people."

Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens said Wednesday that he is recommending a ban, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, responded that he would defer to Martens and Acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker on the decision.

The Department of Environmental Conservation will put out a final environmental impact statement early next year, Martens said, and after that he will issue an order prohibiting fracking.

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KEYWORDS: energy; hydrofrac; naturalgas
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To: Hojczyk
Maybe NY should have $15 gas since they hate it so much, then watch the same people
run across the state lines to fill up. Those that know how to drive. The libtards against
fracking probably don't own cars so it doesn't effect them.
21 posted on 12/17/2014 7:12:53 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Hojczyk

I went to see my ma on this last Monday night, right on the NY/PA border. We could not get in to a local chain restaurant because all the PA licensed pickup trucks filled the parking lot. All that fracking just south of the Southern Tier and no where to stay, except in NY. On a Monday night. Andrew knows best. Did I mention all the “Repeal the Safe ACT” signs in every other lawn around here?


22 posted on 12/17/2014 7:21:26 PM PST by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: Hojczyk
John Rockefeller was born in a very small town in the fracking area....what if somebody prohibited him from investing in oil and railroads?...

but Cumo...no, we can't let the little upstate people get a little something out of their land....they can't get some money like the farmers in North Dakota or those land holders in NE PA...nope...Cumo insists that his people remain poor....

23 posted on 12/17/2014 7:34:49 PM PST by cherry
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To: Hojczyk

Let ‘em all freeze.


24 posted on 12/17/2014 7:37:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hojczyk
Bad for New York, but good for Pennsylvania... less regional competition. Fracking has been the best thing that happened in PA since Andrew Carnegie and George Westinghouse.

Upstate NY could sure use it too, but Cumo would rather pander to Upper Manhattan idiots like Yoko Ono and other scientific illiterates. He's following his political money and screw those peasants in the struggling towns outside Manhattan. He really does not give a crap about those people.

Pennsylvania will be glad for the extra revenues. Hopefully, our incoming Democrat governor doesn't screw the pooch by pushing his extraction taxes that he promised the low info voters during the campaign. I doubt he'll getaway with it.

25 posted on 12/17/2014 7:38:35 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Hojczyk

Communist Cuomo lies today in his public cabinet session on tv and says he doesn`t know what the left is or who they are.


26 posted on 12/17/2014 7:43:23 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))
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To: Repeal The 17th

I am sure that the practical impact is that many rural conservatives will each not be seeing thousands of dollars that they otherwise might have. Not a big deal to a liberal condo own in Albany or and EBT card user in Harlem.


27 posted on 12/17/2014 7:52:59 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Hojczyk

My son and I drove through upstate New York on the way to Cooperstown a few years ago. We stopped at Utica, Syracuse and Buffalo. Dead cities with tombs of dead industries occupied by a few people with dead lives.


28 posted on 12/17/2014 8:10:03 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Hojczyk

There are two gas wells in my town—what health risks? The water’s fine, and I recall a politician in a different state actually DRINK the fluid the oilmen use to break the rocks. It probably didn’t taste good, but he wasn’t poisoned. ‘Nuff said.


29 posted on 12/17/2014 8:28:52 PM PST by __rvx86 (This Tagline is gluten-free.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

They’d like to ban internal combustion engine cars, but limiting fuel would eventually have the desired result.


30 posted on 12/17/2014 9:31:24 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: driftless2

Get the lead outta ammo....


31 posted on 12/17/2014 9:31:59 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Hojczyk

To be true their cause should also ban all products that come from fraced wells otherwise they will just be supporting fracing in other states.


32 posted on 12/18/2014 12:49:12 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: printhead

its very sad....normal people getting a chance to change their family tree and Cumo won’t allow them....the money is only good for the rich elites in the tall buildings in NYC....


33 posted on 12/18/2014 1:20:03 AM PST by cherry
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To: Hojczyk
upstate is still pretty spectacular....but there are not very big employers so you've never going to get that huge rise in income from a large section....

I have family there and I feel bad for them, plus the casinos were picked today and none of them are in the actual Southern Tier...

34 posted on 12/18/2014 1:22:16 AM PST by cherry
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To: Hojczyk

The same idiots who protest high gas prices as a conspiracy of big oil.


35 posted on 12/18/2014 12:45:16 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

Russia and Opec cheers.


36 posted on 12/18/2014 12:46:11 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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