Not exact matches
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.»
1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR
process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff
at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants
at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support
natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.
At 11:30 a.m., New Yorkers Against Fracking hold a rally to celebrate the Cuomo administration's decision to ban the controversial
natural gas drilling process, Empire State Plaza Concourse, Albany.
Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination have found that
at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the
natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing
To determine emissions rates
at natural gas fields in Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale
gas fields, the researchers used emissions data gathered from an airplane that flew over
natural gas wells in southwest Pennsylvania in June 2012, some of which were in the
process of being
drilled.
The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the
natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers
at a western Pennsylvania
drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]