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The candidates also butted heads on the issue of hydraulic fracturing.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The trustee of New York's $ 150.1 billion pension fund has reached an agreement with Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. to disclose what it's doing to reduce risks of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Board members at that meeting that a moratorium would be premature since the state has not yet approved high volume hydraulic fracturing, &... Continue reading →
In both gambling and hydraulic fracturing, moving forward has the potential to bring much - needed jobs, but carries practical and political risks.
Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.
Similar pressures are at work in the debate over hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method of natural gas extraction.
In a matter of 15 days, those Legislators believed that Erie County had enough information to make a significant decision concerning hydraulic fracturing on county property.
Health professionals and scientists are out with two new independent summations of the risks and harms of shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing.
IOGA, the lobby for the industry, supports using the controversial extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking.
The Erie County Legislature voted, 9 - 2, to approve a local law banning hydraulic fracturing on county - owned property.
An East Rochester attorney waging a years - long battle over New York's hydraulic fracturing ban is taking a new approach, filing a lawsuit last week attempting to force the state to compensate him for the oil - and - gas rights on his land.
But with the possible start to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation of the Southern Tier, Libous — who supports the use of hydraulic fracturing — said more information is needed.
Making fracking easier Extracting shale gas from the ground requires some genuine political courage, because there's deep suspicion across the country about what the process of hydraulic fracturing actually involves.
Hydraulic Fracturing can not be done safely and to think that government regulations or corporate responsibility will protect our landscape and water is gravely mistaken.
The revised draft review of the impact of high - volume hydraulic fracturing, due out today, has been postponed because of the Department of Environmental Conservation's focus on the aftermath of Irene.
Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said last week that he expects the advisory committee of experts, local and state officials and environmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near future.»
While I understand the desire to switch to a domestic energy source and the financial enticement of that, high - pressured hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively new form of fracturing within the decade, has been linked to a 1000 cases of groundwater contamination, including flammable tap water in Colorado, methane explosions in West Virginia, and poisoned, flammable water in Pennsylvania.
The Journal News says it's time for Cuomo to stop playing «Hamlet on hydraulic - fracturing» and make a decision about fracking.
Schneiderman is also suing the federal government over its review standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas extraction process.
«Governor Cuomo, please do everything in your power to ban hydraulic fracturing throughout New York State.
Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous today didn't completely rule out a tax on high - income earners, saying that without high - volume hydraulic fracturing impoverished communities need some source of revenue in the wake of severe flooding.
Indeed, a shortage of accessible natural gas threatens to cause more manufacturing losses in the region, where the state has banned shale gas production via high - pressure hydraulic hydrofracturing.
The debate over the environmental and economic impact of hydraulic fracking in New York State has raged for the better part of the last decade.
As energy companies show diminished interest in high - volume hydraulic fracturing in New York, the Tompkins County Courthouse is being flooded with paperwork showing a rapid increase in expiring gas leases.
The Marist poll also found divergent attitudes on another hotly debated energy issue: hydraulic fracturing.
His praise, however, came with a healthy dose of irony: Pegula owes much of his fortune to advancements of horizontal hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a controversial technique that Cuomo's administration has kept on hold in New York for years.
He's also gone against GOP orthodoxy by questioning whether high - volume hydraulic fracturing is safe enough.
What's more, after nearly seven years of regulatory review that began with an executive directive before Cuomo took office, the state officially banned high - volume hydraulic fracking in 2015, denying opportunities for the state's smaller producers, which long ago saw demand outpace the supplies pulled from conventional reservoirs.
The complaint says Skelos also pressed to get hydraulic fracturing made legal in New York, which the environmental company was interested in, to treat fracking waste water.
In it, he recommends that fracking — technically known as high - volume hydraulic fracturing, or HVHF — has too many unknowns.
The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday.
Others were upset by the ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, because they believe the gas drilling process would boost that region's struggling economy.
He acknowledges that «absolute scientific certainty» about the safety of such a complex activity as high - volume hydraulic fracturing is unlikely ever to be achieved.
In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.
She said she was most proud of fighting for the so - called Safe Act, a gun - control law that New York enacted after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a process known as fracking.
High - volume hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, emerged as a huge issue in upstate New York, particularly in the Southern Tier where the 19th Congressional District stretches.
Unlike the incumbent, the engaging and personable Democratic challenger supports a moratorium on hydraulic fracking.
FILE - In this July 27, 2011 file photo, workers stand behind the top of a pump for the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, File)
It includes cutting taxes and spending and allowing for natural gas drilling using the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.
Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale -LSB-...]
Numerous energy and gas drilling companies are now vying with one another to tap these deposits using a method known as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking).
Officials from the company, AbTech Industry, testified under non-prosecution agreements that they felt pressured to raise Adam Skelos» salary as a consultant from $ 4,000 per month to $ 10,000 per month, in order to position the company for future state contracts related to Hurricane Sandy and hydraulic fracturing.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens, second from let, talks on hydraulic fracturing during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.Acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is seated left.
When officials in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration announced in December that they would move forward with a ban on high - volume hydraulic fr...
That same day, Governor Cuomo's administration announced it would ban hydraulic fracturing.
A viewer could be forgiven for not recognizing that entity as the political arm of the statewide teachers» union, New York State United Teachers: the advertisement, which criticizes Mr. Hanna for his positions on issues like hydraulic fracturing, women's health issues and gun control, never mentions education.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration is banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in New York, citing concerns about health and environmental risks.
New York's health commissioner is still declining to speculate when his agency will finish a review of the health effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, meaning the state appears no closer to allowing the controversial drilling process.
The group Unshackle Upstate is proposing a series of tax cuts, as well as a start to hydraulic fracturing as the remedy.
Legislative Director Julia Walsh said opponents to a state decision to allow hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, are worried the DEC may be giving short shrift to the 66,000 public comments received on a proposed state roadmap for hydrofracking.