The federal study was a step on the way to implementing that plan — it established the baseline level of methane in the groundwater before fracking, providing a basis for before - after comparison, and a preemptive defense against later claims of pollution
from fracking opponents.
Not exact matches
Opponents of a planned
fracked gas power plant in the Hudson Valley say they are hoping the U.S. attorney will investigate decisions made in the permitting process for the plan, now that it's been revealed that the wife of a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo took payments
from the lead engineering firm in the project, and that her husband is the subject of a federal probe.
Gennaro and other
opponents of
fracking in New York have raised the issue's visibility in part by pointing to the disastrous effects the practice has had in a number of Western states that have allowed it, and in Pennsylvania, which shares the same source of gas as New York State, the Marcellus Shale formation, which runs
from the Southern Tier to West Virginia, and west to part of Ohio.
Opponents of
fracking are now focusing on gas pipelines that conduct
fracked gas
from other states underneath New York.
Opponents of a planned
fracked gas power plant in the Hudson Valley say they are hoping the U.S. attorney will investigate decisions made in the permitting process for the plan, now that it's been revealed that the wife of a former top aide to Cuomo took payments
from the lead engineering firm in the project, and that her husband is the subject of a federal probe.
Opponents of a planned
fracked gas power plant in the Hudson Valley say they are hoping the U.S. Attorney will investigate decisions made in the permitting process for the plan, now that it has been revealed that the wife of a former top aide to Cuomo took payments
from the lead engineering firm in the project, and that her husband is the subject of a federal probe.
Its
opponents are concerned that this and other, more toxic pollutants might be seeping up
from fracking sites far below ground and contaminating water supplies.
At the same time, the sometimes loosely governed rush to liberate this fuel
from rock deposits through hydraulic fracturing, or «
fracking,» has helped invigorate
opponents of drilling.
Chip Northrup, a former oil and gas investor
from Texas who now splits his time between Dallas and upstate New York, is an articulate and energetic
opponent of hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking, for the natural gas locked in deep shale layers in the state.