According to that proposal, communities that do not want to play host to the controversial natural gas drilling process would not be forced to do so. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Last Friday was the deadline for comments to be lodged with the DEC on its most recent set of regulations for the controversial natural gas drilling process known as hydrofracking. (wamc.org)
Since the Dryden and Middlefield decisions, the city of Binghamton saw its moratorium struck down by a judge who argued that it was premature because the state hasn't yet made a decision about whether to allow the controversial natural gas drilling process in the Marcellus — and eventually perhaps the Utica — shales. (nystateofpolitics.com)