Sentences with word «hydrofracking»

The D.C. - based Food and Water Watch, which is seeking a full - out ban on hydrofracking in New York, made the call after a WSJ story reported Lee was paid to deliver a speech to a conference of petroleum executives in Florida.

(State Fair, Syracuse NY) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party for Governor, said today that one of the reasons he supports a ban on hydrofracking of natural gas is to protect water supplies and farmland.

Bill Mulrow, the chairman of Cuomo's re-election campaign, said in a statement that the «governor doesn't talk about progressive issues, he actually gets them done» and cited Cuomo's record, including gun control and the banning of hydrofracking in New York.

Hawkins is the only candidate who supports banning hydrofracking for natural gas.

There is a fifth proposal that the business group is pushing: the start of the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking in New York, which they say would create thousands of high paying jobs.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens says one day after the public comment period has closed, a 58 member staff is still opening boxes, but he expects the number of comments on a draft environmental impact statement for hydrofracking in New York State to reach 40,000.

Astorino campaigned heavily on allowing hydrofracking in upstate New York, especially in the jobs - starved Southern Tier region.

- The governor said he still expects a report on the effects of natural gas hydrofracking from the Department of Health by year's end.

The plan released by Astorino, of course, isn't something that Republicans in Albany would have a hard time embracing: He wants to double down on the property tax cap by making it permanent, he favors stripping away and streamlining regulations and backs high - volume hydrofracking of natural gas.

The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydrofracking as hazardous waste.

Thanks to former Gov. David Paterson's executive order, there is a temporary hydrofracking moratorium in place that has been extended by Cuomo to last until the DEC weighs in with its supplemental GEIS sometime this summer.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo says there has been no progress on a decision about hydrofracking in New York state, the movement opposing the controversial gas extracting technology gets louder.

Cuomo himself was in Broome County on Tuesday to announce the expansion of a marketing company in the area — good economic development news for a region that was initially denied a casino license and has been debating the contentious hydrofracking issue for natural gas drilling.

Clare Donohue, Sane Energy Project for her continuous fight against hydrofracking.

The state's environmental agency says a key advisory panel will not be issuing a report on the impacts of hydrofracking by a November 1 deadline, delaying part of the process of allowing the natural gas drilling on some private lands in New York until early next year.

But, for the first time in more than a year, a growing number of upstate voters, many of whom live in areas above the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposits, support hydrofracking by 48 % to 41 %.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

The state's Environmental Commissioner said last week that the process to permit hydrofracking on some private lands in New York State may take longer than expected, and DEC Commissioner Joe Martens even cast doubt on whether permits would be issued in 2012 at all.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is not pleased with hydrofracking regulations that were put forward by the Delaware River Basin.

Robert F. Kennedy's organization and others said State Senator Tom Libous should recuse himself from the debate over hydrofracking since his his ties to the industry were made public.

The case included the embarrassing reveal of wiretapped phone calls featuring Skelos and his son conducting unvarnished ruminations on a number of issues like hydrofracking and insults directed at Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

ICYMI: Rep. Bob Turner, who is on an upstate campaign swing and headed today to Binghamton — the heart of New York's hydrofracking debate — shrugged off environmental concerns about the controversial natural gas drilling process during a CapTon interview last night, saying the state should «at least start trying it.»

Governor Cuomo, who still has not issued a decision on whether hydrofracking should be allowed in New York, is backing further away from the controversial gas drilling process in his economic development plans for the future.

49 % are against using hydrofracking while 39 % support it.

They say hydrofracked gas emissions from compressor stations contain toxins that pose serious health risks, and point to state officials» decision in December to ban hydraulic fracturing in New York.

The issue of hydrofracking remains a contentious one in New York, where a vocal environmental advocacy campaign has sprung up to oppose the process.

«The agency is still incapable of moving forward with anything that would be so draining as bringing hydrofracking into New York,» said Hudson.

There is no money in the 2014 - 2015 budget, which begins April 1, for regulating hydrofracking.

With its money, Common Cause funded «Moreland Monday» studies asking the then - operating Moreland Commission on Public Corruption to examine spending by real estate, gambling, pharmaceutical and hydrofracking industries.

Republicans and hydrofracking supporters tried to help Hinchey's Republican opponent, George Phillips, who was making a second attempt at unseating the congressman.

H.R. 1460 (Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2015)

But, as the Gannett story reminds us, Pegula is not above using his team to advance the interests of the industry that made him a billionaire, one that many consider a potential danger to public health in the Empire State should Gov. Andrew Cuomo approve hydrofracking.

«Everyone is worried about everything, the [worsening] budget, [legislative and congressional] redistricting, the economy, pension reform, hydrofracking [for natural gas], casino gambling, and who knows that it's going to be like this time between Cuomo and Silver,» said another.

The group's Daniel McKay says proposed hydrofracking now being considered by the Cuomo Administration's environmental department could change the rural and historic character of the region.

In May, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York filed a lawsuit against several federal agencies that are affiliated with the Delaware River Basin Commission, a multistate entity including New York that regulates the river basin, to block the commission from issuing final regulations on hydrofracking until a full environmental review could be conducted.

The report, written in February of 2012, nearly a year ago, says «significant adverse impacts on human health are not expected from routine HVHF hydrofracking operations».

When this question was last reported in March, 39 % opposed hydrofracking while 40 % supported it.

In a petition filed with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, AG Eric Schneiderman sought reduced limits on the vapor pressure of oil shipped in tanker cars from the Bakken hydrofrack fields of North Dakota to coastal refineries.

My point is that the article was totally biased and that the science on hydrofracking does not support the environmentalists.

The New Market Dominion pipeline is one of a dizzying array of fuel pipelines that flow through New York, in many cases taking natural gas from hydrofracking sites in other states to markets in New York and other places.

The commissioner also asked if the local election results from yesterday where hydrofracking played a key role in races in Otsego, Sullivan, and Tompkins County.

Bloomberg has largely avoided commenting on local politics, though he has allowed aides, such as Wolfson, to occasionally defend his record, and did criticize Governor Cuomo earlier this year for his decision to ban hydrofracking statewide and allow casinos in upstate regions.

Cuomo has said he would make a decision on whether to permit high - volume hydrofracking before next year's election in November.

Virtually all of the 58 who spoke at Wednesday evening's hearing on a proposed county law to prohibit the use of hydrofracking brine as a de-icer on county roads said they wanted the ban, and one on fracking in Ulster to boot.

One glaring admission from the hour - long presentation in Albany involved hydrofracking, a controversial drilling method the state has yet to approve or reject.

But an appearance Cuomo made in Ithaca yesterday didn't quite follow the script, as opponents to the natural gas drilling process known as hydrofracking showed up to protest his event.

Hawkins will also discuss hydrofracking and energy.