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Cuomo to Ban Fracking in New York State, Citing Health Risks
Cuomo to Ban Fracking in New York State, Citing Health Risks ^ | DEC. 17, 2014 | By JESSE McKINLEY

Posted on 12/17/2014 10:03:02 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration announced Wednesday that it would ban hydraulic fracturing in New York State, ending years of uncertainty by concluding that the controversial method of extracting gas from deep underground could contaminate the state’s air and water and pose inestimable public-health risks...

That conclusion was delivered publicly during a year-end cabinet meeting called by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in Albany. It came amid increased calls by environmentalists to ban fracking, which uses water and chemicals to release natural gas trapped in deeply buried shale deposits.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ban; coal; cuomo; energy; fracking; frackingban; natgas; naturalgas; ny
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Perhaps Il Douche should admonish his new-found friend and Western NY sports mogul Terry Pegula about the evils of Fracking, which greatly contributed to his business success.

Better yet, Cuomo should sic Lt. Governor-elect & “native daughter” Kathy Hochul on this State tax generator to try having him divest from the technology…


81 posted on 12/17/2014 4:14:53 PM PST by mikrofon (NYS Bump)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Just got back from the eye doctor, so my eyes are dilated right now. Can’t tell you how much of a howl the headline gave me when I first read it.


82 posted on 12/17/2014 4:32:56 PM PST by TomServo
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

No Jobs And no taxing of the frackers equals a poor over taxed population
Thanks you, you POS son of a sfachim


83 posted on 12/17/2014 4:36:26 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
What's so strange about all this? Obama does the same thing and even worse every day and nobody stops him either.

Ahh, it's nice to be King!

84 posted on 12/17/2014 4:38:56 PM PST by Gritty (Political Correctness is meant to humiliate you and force you to acquiesce in the lies-Mark Steyn)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I could care less. These idiots actually live in that cess pool. Rock on junk heads.


85 posted on 12/17/2014 5:08:23 PM PST by iowacornman (Romney is the father of government health care.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Even the EPA has said that fracking is safe. Believe that the National Academy of Sciences or a similar group also came to that conclusion, yet “Cuomo” the crook is against it.

Wonder how many New Yorkers won’t be getting new jobs for Christmas and beyond?

If you haven’t seen them, New York State (i.e. Comrade Cuomo) is running TV ads touting “Come to New York” for businesses who will not be taxed for 10 years or so.

A sign of desperation if you are losing so many other companies heading south that you have to advise that you have space available.

No sane business should ever go to NY state as long as the Democrats and reds (DeBlasio) run/ruin it. The gun-rights laws, business rights laws, tax laws, and environmental laws are all stacked against the honest citizen/worker.

All we can hope for is an indictment in the future when the Republicans take the presidency in 2016, of what Cuomo did when he was Secy of HUD. Hope the statute of limitations hasn’t run out yet. He deserves to be in jail for being the crook that he is.

Honesty runs in the family. His father, Mario, as governor, once said that there “was not Mafia”. It was just a smear against Italians.

Now junior says that fracking is dangerous despite no evidence of is being so.

Liars - like father, like son! Another political “All In the Family” show of smoke and mirrors!


86 posted on 12/17/2014 5:42:23 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“Health risks?” Then go ahead and outlaw all cars and motorcycles, dear Gov. Not-the-homo.


87 posted on 12/17/2014 7:39:48 PM PST by rfp1234 (Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Not surprised by this. Cuomo is as much of a Marxist as the usurper in the White House. He knows that banning this won't make a difference with enough people in this state. Too bad for the southern tier, though, they could use the jobs down there.
88 posted on 12/17/2014 10:01:08 PM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Gene Eric
The nasty fluids you refer to is about 95% water and sand. A day at the beach is probably more harmful to your health than any fracking.
89 posted on 12/17/2014 10:08:25 PM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
This epitomizes Cuomo's economic program.

Forbid productive, innovative technology which creates wealth and substitute a wholly economically sterile activity that rewards rich donors/rent-seekers.

90 posted on 12/17/2014 11:27:02 PM PST by OddLane
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Now he’s being mean to the Indians, invading their turf. How.


91 posted on 12/18/2014 12:52:26 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: C19fan

New state West NY!


92 posted on 12/18/2014 3:01:31 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Darksheare
He could rape a dog while eating a baby and strangling a nun, and idiots in NYC and Albany will vote him in.

NYC/Albany/Binghamton/Buffalo/Syracuse.....some college towns and in close suburbs.
But like the US election map the vast majority of land area is red.

93 posted on 12/18/2014 3:10:58 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Milton Miteybad

Wish you folks would stop calling the Marxists stupid. You’re marginalizing people like zer0 and cHomo who KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, when it comes to destroying our liberties. There goal is simple...”we take your freedoms “


94 posted on 12/18/2014 3:23:48 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Misery loves company.

Cuomo is just trying to spread the love.


95 posted on 12/18/2014 6:19:09 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Vaquero

Yup.


96 posted on 12/18/2014 6:28:05 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Vaquero
I wouldn't dispute that. What I question is Cuomo's stealing New Yorker's freedoms under the pretext that hydrofrac operations contaminate groundwater supplies, which is a canard, intellectually speaking. It's stupid for Cuomo to continue trafficking in this silly groundwater contamination canard, yet he continues to do so, ignoring the massive volume of evidence to the contrary (approaching 100,000 separate hydrofrac operations in Texas, with ZERO instances of groundwater contamination attributable thereto.)

When one does that, in the manner that Andrew Cuomo is doing, one can't help but look stupid.
97 posted on 12/18/2014 7:25:09 AM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Milton Miteybad

Seeming stupid to you is by design. After all they are the GRUBER party(stupid voter). I don’t underestimate the Dhimmicrats, they are students of Saul Alinsky and his rules for radicals. And they have coopted the old Joseph Goebbels’, saw about telling a lie often enough.


98 posted on 12/18/2014 8:21:49 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: kearnyirish2

“..in the watershed”

Only some of it - the area north of 88 (my daughter and son in law live there) is not in the watershed. There is no excuse for Cuomo’s horrible decision. The area is desparate for jobs and struggling in poverty, and Cuomo caters to Manhattan.

My daughter is a nurse and our son in law has diary cows, so they are OK, but many of their neighbors are struggling.


99 posted on 12/18/2014 8:48:07 AM PST by stonehouse01
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Hussein will use this as a reason to deny it all over the nation.


100 posted on 12/18/2014 8:57:39 AM PST by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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