Sentences with phrase «many fracking opponents»

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

Arthur «Jerry» Kremer is a former state assemblyman and founding chairman of Empire Government Strategies, a state lobbying firm, and said fracking opponents like Avella used fear to convince voters over to their side.

As Pegula continues with his purchase of the Bills — the National Football League's owners are expected to approve the deal in October — fracking opponents said they're hopeful it won't influence Cuomo's decision - making process.

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.

Meanwhile, fracking opponents have been stating their case via rallies, celebrities, and documentaries.

Hang is pressuring fracking opponents to avoid donating to any environmental group that does not condemn the propane proposal, which the industry has presented as an environmentally friendlier alternative to traditional fracking methods.

The IDC, who's member Tony Avella (IDC - Queens) is a fierce fracking opponent, were essentially laundering campaign cash to the Republican Chair of the Environmental Conservation Committee, where he regularly kills anti-fracking legislation written by people like Avella, through an organization that purports to exist to advocate for environmental conservation.

BBC South Today's Piers Hopkirk spoke to Mr Bové, Balcombe resident and fracking opponent Sue Taylor, and Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker.

In 2014 many fracking opponents voted for Zephyr Teachout against Governor Cuomo in the Democratic primary, and Teachout won several upstate counties where fracking had been proposed.

That view was reinforced by two developments last week: Cuomo's aides proposed a new energy plan for the state's future that, unlike previous plans, made no mention of fracking in the Southern Tier, and Cuomo himself named former New York City Councilman James Gennaro, a fierce fracking opponent, as a deputy commissioner at Martens» environmental agency.

Cuomo's director of communications, Melissa DeRosa, began following the Twitter account of actor Mark Ruffalo, an outspoken fracking opponent and one of the governor's most prominent critics.

Fracking opponents hope to now spread the bans to towns that were waiting for the court's final ruling.

Fracking opponent Josh Fox is a filmmaker (and Academy Award nominee for «Gasland») who was asked to lease his land for drilling.

Not exact matches

But of the presidential candidates hoping for good news out of the corn state's caucuses today, the only out - and - out opponent of fracking is Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders.

Opponents say fracking poses a risk to public health and the environment but the industry says it is safe.

A South African environmental group renewed its call for a moratorium on shale - gas fracking, as the government moves closer to a decision on whether to allow the process opponents say imperils water quality.

So what am I to make of the extreme claims that are made by opponents to fracking (hydraulic fracturing of subsurface rocks to get oil or gas)?

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.

Opponents of the project say they have the support of over 30 grassroots community and environmental organizations (attached list) and a petition with over 1300 signatures which they will deliver to Governor Cuomo, who banned fracking last month based on public health concerns.

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.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

Opponents of fracking are now focusing on gas pipelines that conduct fracked gas from other states underneath New York.

Assembly Democrats also held a lengthy hearing on fracking, in the first week of the legislative session, where opponents as well as supporters gave testimony.

Now that elections are over, supporters and opponents of hydro fracking are wondering what will be Governor Andrew Cuomo's next move on the long stalled gas drilling process in New York State.

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.

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

Before the ban was in place, Cuomo himself had even references Ruffalo's advocacy when mocking his 2014 gubernatorial opponent Rob Astorino's stance on natural gas through the banning of fracking wastewater being being used to treat roads in Westchester County.

The mailer also accuses Murphy's Democratic opponent, attorney Justin Wagner, of representing «one of the largest fracking companies» whose natural gas flows through the Algonquin pipeline, which is slated for expansion in Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties.

The increasing bizarre contest between GOP Sen. Greg Ball and Democrat Justin Wagner gets even weirder when Ball «reveals» an alleged fracking - related conflict of interest on the part of his opponent.

«By contrast my opponent supports fracking, opposes the right to choose as well as equal pay for women and has supported measures that encourage corporations to outsource jobs to other countries.

Opponents of fracking will not be credible unless they are prepared to build large - scale renewables projects and damage the environment in the process, Tim Farron has told Politics.co.uk.

Opponents of fracking will not be credible unless they are prepared to build large - scale renewables projects and damage the environment, Tim Farron tells Politics.co.uk

Make no mistake — on Tuesday's primary you have a choice — to vote for a current / five - term Dutchess County Legislator who has fought fracking tooth and nail for four years (1,100 signed on to the www.PetitionOnline.com/NoDrill effort I launched in 2008); I believe fracking should be banned and criminalized — or my primary opponent, who actually said this of fracking to Alan Chartock on WAMC April 17: «In terms of the impact I think the jury is still out.»

Hydro - fracking has been banned in New York State for nearly a year now, but opponents of the natural gas extraction process have other concerns, including new pipelines.

Opponents of hydro fracking are charging there's a potential conflict of interest with a consultant to Governor Cuomo's environmental agency.

Supporters of a fracking ban are celebrating the long - awaited decision while opponents say they are disappointed and the Southern Tier, where fracking would have taken place, is doomed.

State Senator Tony Avella, a Queens Democrat who is pushing for a ban on fracking, says he thinks the opponents are winning the public relations battles over the controversial drilling practice, and predicts that will eventually have an effect on Cuomo.

The state completed a fracking ban in late June, but proponents as well as opponents agree that the gelled propane proposal could expose loopholes in the state's prohibition.

Scroggins, a self - described fracking tour guide, escorted Hawkins and former Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan — both stauch opponents of fracking — on a tour of northern Pennsylvania natural gas wells in October.

Opponents claim that the environmental concerns are too significant to bring the controversial practice to Western New York, and they are lobbying for a permanent ban on fracking.

As the members of the Schuyler County Legislature left their meeting last week, the emotion, passion and anger of opponents of the gas storage projects — and fracking in general — burst into full display.

Cuomo decided to prohibit fracking in the state a month after his re-election in 2014, but had previously been criticized by backers of the process, who accused him of hindering economic development, as well as opponents convinced he was about to give his blessing to environmental despoliation.

Assemblywoman Galef, along with anti fracking advocates and pipeline opponents, hope that will give Cuomo more impetus to order a state risk assessment through his own Department of Environmental Conservation.

The Cuomo Administration has announced two developments that could delay the start of hydro fracking in New York, and is leaving supporters and opponents with many unanswered questions.

Were there e-mail exchanges between the governor's office and Bobby Kennedy Jr., a former Cuomo brother - in - law and eco-freak opponent of fracking?

A public hearing on a proposal to restrict natural gas fracking in Erie County Monday turned into an attack on opponents and on Governor Cuomo for blocking fracking statewide.

The prosecutor then asked if Mr. Avella, a leading opponent of fracking, had known that Senator Skelos had asked his staff to set up a meeting on the subject between AbTech and state officials.

To opponents of hydrofracking in New York, Moreau's statement that, in fact, fracking has contaminated groundwater may come as a surprise.

Opponents of fracking called on the assembly to pass a moratorium until a full health impact review is completed and until the environmental review of fracking fully corrects what they view as a long list of inadequacies.

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.