[RayChuang88]

Correct. Because natural gas burns very cleanly, the cost of emission controls at a gas-fired power plant is a tiny fraction of a coal-fired power plant, which require very expensive systems to remove particulates, heavy metals, sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the exhaust stream before it goes out the exhaust stack.

That's why New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to not allow fracking for natural gas in upper New York state (that part of New York state sits on the gas-rich Marcellus Shale) is bad for that state. The state could have gotten a clean source of energy, and upper New York state would right now enjoy an economic boom as natural gas wells and pipelines are built to feed New York City.

[JimRed]

That's why New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to not allow fracking for natural gas in upper New York state (that part of New York state sits on the gas-rich Marcellus Shale) is bad for that state.

Has anyone checked Coo-moe's* portfolio for the presence of coal mining stocks and futures?

*Jesse Jackson says it that way, so it would be racist to say Cwo-moe.

[headstamp 2]

[The state could have gotten a clean source of energy, and upper New York state would right now enjoy an economic boom as natural gas wells and pipelines are built to feed New York City.]

And a manufacturing renaissance in upstate NY. Which is precisely why the left will not allow it.

Far better to have an “unspoiled” (in a liberal’s mind) landscape while locals live hand to mouth.

[American Constitutionalist]

That just proves that liberals like Como and the environmentalist are not truely for the environment.