I grew up in Orchard Park, NY about 20 miles south of Buffalo.
I knew two high school friends that had gas wells on their property. There is so much natural gas out in the shale rock out there that there are places that it comes out of the ground. This place was a couple miles from where I grew up:
I was born in Buffalo, and lived at Lime Lake for many years. I now live in Rochester. The whole Marcelus Shale deposit extends from south of Cleveland up to Orchard Park to South of Albany, and back into the Catskills.
NY could be pumping NG from a zillion wells and none of this would be necessary.
But we are stuck with Downstate democRATS driving the state into the ground.