Sentences with phrase «to allow fracking»

This represents a direct reversal of the policy it declared last year which allowed fracking in national parks under «exceptional circumstances».

The more locals try to get rich by allowing fracking on their land, the more the price will fall.

The 56 - year - old Cuomo will begin his second term with a long list of challenges, including the implementation of a new medical marijuana law, a decision on whether to allow fracking for natural gas and the selection of up to four new casino operators upstate.

New York was on the verge of allowing fracking when Governor David Paterson, Cuomo's predecessor, put all drilling on hold pending an environmental review.

«This office will continue to review all options moving forward to ensure that the federal government meets its clear legal obligation to fully study the potential risks to New Yorkers» health, environment and public safety before allowing fracking in the Delaware River Basin,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

And Iwanowicz says he's against allowing fracking even in communities that want it, because the current science has not proved that the process is safe.

And Iwanowicz says he's against allowing fracking even in communities that want it, because the current science has not proven that the process is safe.

The fact that NY has not allowed fracking to date has helped to strengthen the movement against fracking in other states.

I think if Cuomo allows fracking in New York he will be fulfilling his family's destiny of being a big LOSER!!

In December 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration decided not to allow fracking within New York's borders.

It; s a counter-weight to one of the few contentious issues in the speech: allowing fracking companies to dig on people's land without their permission.

Cox spoke at a natural gas industry lobby meeting, where he said Cuomo was «dithering» on a decision about allowing fracking in New York, by continuing to say he's waiting for his health commissioner to finish a review.

On Wednesday, MPs voted to allow fracking under Britain's national parks, drawing accusations that the government had sneaked the measure through parliament without a proper debate.

The proposed pipeline would have transported natural gas from Pennsylvania - which allows fracking - through New York State - which has banned fracking.

We're not going to allow fracked gas into our state.»

«There needs to be a health impact assessment before the state considers allowing fracking to proceed.»

Gas fired electric generation is a great idea, but NY banned fracking so this commodity will have to be imported from PA and OH where they do allow fracking but Cuomo won't let any pipelines that will bring this natural gas to the NY generating plants.

«A study by independent economists last week found that fracking job claims were exaggerated in states that have allowed fracking while a major newspaper found that in the supposed boom towns of the Plains states, fracking has brought a dramatic increase in crime.

In the latest stop on his quasi-campaign tour, Donald Trump delivered the keynote address at the Manhattan G.O.P.'s annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Wednesday night, predicting Governor Andrew Cuomo will eventually allow fracking in New York State, because of pressure from Trump.

The problem is we've got a governor who's allowing fracking waste into the state, he's building out the infrastructure for natural gas.

Julia Walsh, campaign director for Frack Action, told the gathered activists that New York should not follow other states, like Pennsylvania, that currently allow fracking.

In an interview with The Citizen in September, Katko said allowing fracking could transform the state's economy.

Cuomo Should Allow Fracking Health Experts to Speak Publicly, Disclose Work Tuesday February 05, 2013 at 12:41 pm

Democratic Governor Bev Perdue, whose veto of a law allowing fracking in the state was overturned in the same week, has until August 2 to decide whether to veto the anti-sea level legislation.

She signed her own gas lease to allow fracking on the farm near Ulster, pocketing $ 13,600 starting back in 2006, but no company drilled on her land.

The landowners» announcement comes after Joe Martens, the state's top environmental regulator, told lawmakers in Albany that the state isn't planning to allow fracking for at least another year.

Maffei says the federal government should push for tight regulation and information disclosure of the natural gas industry before allowing fracking to done in New York.

At the same time, the Delaware River Basin Commission — of which Paterson is a member — also looks like it is moving forward on allowing fracking in the area, despite objections from various sources (including Paterson) and a lack of adequate scientific review of the potential consequences.The energy industry has welcomed the moratorium as a positive alternative to what it called a «flawed» piece of legislation.

Just across the border, in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering whether or not to allow fracking, which he says would take place only under «toughest - in - the - nation» environmental regulations.

-- leaked details of your administration's plan to allow fracking to the New York Times.

In June, the New York Times reported that Cuomo was prepared to allow fracking in a few counties along the Pennsylvania border where the gas is richest and the resistance weakest.

In the early years of the Cuomo Administration, oil giant Exxon - Mobil put its considerable political clout behind an effort to get New York to allow fracking; a controversial type of drilling that allowed for the extraction of natural gas.

If Andy is going to allow fracking, it should be allowed right on NYC's doorstep — in the Catskill watershed.

He also lobbied on behalf of the firm — unsuccessfully — to allow fracking in the state.

But he also slammed Cuomo for continuing to stall on making a decision on whether to allow fracking in the Southern Tier, calling it «scandalous» that the governor won't risk upsetting «radical» environmentalists like his his ex-brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy Jr..

If he allows fracking in the southern tier the gas / oil industries will slowly infultrate the entire upstate area.

15:44 - Caroline Lucas, greens, lambasts Cameron for allowing fracking to take place without support from landowners.

He has been consistent, for nearly four years, in saying he would let the scientific facts decide whether to allow fracking in New York State.

Governor Cuomo has yet to make a decision on whether to allow fracking to go forward, saying he's waiting for his Health Commissioner to finish a study.

The governor made a similar claim regarding the decision — also announced yesterday — not to allow fracking in New York, saying he relied on the expertise and recommendations of his health and DEC commissioners.

Here's the script for Savino's on - line appeal... note that she says this decision should be about science, not politics, which is interesting, since it echoes what the governor has long said about the still - unmade decision about whether to allow fracking in the Marcellus:

It has not been announced when that decision will be made, but has been reported that the Department of Environmental Conservation may allow fracking in some areas of the state.

At the time NYSERDA ordered the methane study in late 2011, the Cuomo administration appeared to be inching toward what it saw as politically acceptable compromise that would have allowed fracking on a limited scale in a few of the Southern Tier counties.

Saying that «Rosendale is important to me,» he characterized himself as fiscally conservative and promised, «I will never vote for a tax increase... I will never vote to allow fracking.»

There have been further indications that the process to allow fracking has slowed down.

An oil and gas industry group is warning that a business exodus from New York will worsen while Gov. Andrew Cuomo waits for a Pennsylvania health study before deciding whether to allow fracking.

At this time last year, the state seemed on a fast track to allow fracking to go forward.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has not yet decided whether to allow fracking - a drilling method to extract natural gas found deep in shale formations.