Sentences with phrase «supported fracking»

This position is clearly further to the left than the views of the Obama Administration, which at least publicly has supported fracking and has even tried to claim some of the credit for this important innovation.

She said Democrats and Republicans alike in other states supported fracking.

In December 2014, just before Cuomo announced his hydrofracking decision, a Siena poll found 35 percent of voters supported fracking while 38 percent opposed it.

At a fundraiser at Salvatore's Italian Gardens Friday evening, Trump called New York's new gun control laws a disaster, supported fracking for natural gas and criticized Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo's tax policies for businesses.

Do you support fracking?»

Both countries also have enough water and specialized drilling rigs to support fracking, which involves pumping huge quantities of liquid and sand underground to crack open rocks and release energy reserves.

Cox says he supports fracking because it's good for state residents with regulations pushing wealthy people and jobs out of state.

The Chiropractor who says he is a wellness professional who supports fracking.

Pro-frackers note that Republicans took control of the state Senate, and that local Southern Tier candidates who support fracking also won their elections.

If the Gov. were to support fracking, would Yoko work to break up Andrew and Sandra Lee?

Democrats are most likely to be support the fracking ban by a margin of 67 percent to 11 percent.

«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.

The Lib Dems adopted to support fracking and nuclear energy in a policy motion at their party's autumn conference in Glasgow.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear power stations — energy secretary Ed Davey having told them this is vital to fight climate change — and also voted to support fracking, albeit with an amendment to ensure pollution levels were closely monitored and those local to fracking sites were properly consulted.

Cuomo needs to take notice of the support fracking has across the region where it will bring jobs and prosperity, coalition president Dan Fitzsimmons said.

Among voters upstate, where high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale could create jobs, 46 percent support fracking, compared to 45 percent who oppose it.

Pro-frackers charged Thursday that Zucker went the emotional route in the absence of concrete scientific evidence to support a fracking ban.

Industry and business groups that support fracking have been running advertisements for the past several weeks, featuring real people who live in the Marcellus Shale region in New York's Southern Tier and who say they want the natural gas drilling to begin.

In national debates, Sanders has said he would not support fracking, while Clinton has given a more - nuanced response, describing how she would regulate it more strongly.

While Cuomo has held off on giving the green light to the use of fracking for natural gas, his administration has pushed forward the construction of the infrastructure that supports fracking, including pipelines and storage facilities.

Clinton told Anderson Cooper that she supports fracking only when local governments approve, when companies reveal what chemicals they are using in the fracking fluids, and if they can prove they are not polluting the water or the land.

So we call on you once again to reverse course immediately on supporting fracked - gas pipelines and the improper burial of coal ash waste in our communities.

She supports fracking, she claimed, while publicly saying her regulations won't leave many places where the practice will be tolerated.

Not exact matches

The national government in London supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to release gas from shale rock, and so did the planning staff of the Lancashire County Council.

You don't have to worry about us funding private prisons, fracking, oil drilling, contaminated water pipes, or supporting idiotic political candidates.

The protestors called upon Cuomo to support 100 % clean energy as soon as possible (Hawkins supports a target date of 2030); a ban on new fracked - gas / fossil - fuel infrastructure; and a state carbon tax.

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.

The Green Party leader is a proponent of raising the minimum wage, tuition - free public college and a ban on fracking — ideals that Hawkins said Cuomo has supported, to an extent, because Green Party candidates keep running for office.

Governor Cuomo, who has delayed a decision on fracking for nearly his entire first term in office, had originally supported the gas drilling as a means of creating jobs in economically troubled upstate areas.

The House bill was introduced by a congresswoman from Colorado, Diana Degette, and supported, currently, by 20 members of the 29 - member New York House delegation (though one of them is Eric Massa, who has since resigned for reasons related to a different kind of fracking).

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

I am not sure how exporting fracking - energy or other innovation supports long term viability of dollar as reserve.

15:44 - Caroline Lucas, greens, lambasts Cameron for allowing fracking to take place without support from landowners.

Hawkins not only supports but organizes on issues such as a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, 100 % clean energy by 2030, full public campaign financing, single payer health care, the legalization of marijuana, worker rights, taxing the rich, an end to the New Jim Crow and mass incarceration, universal child care... the list goes on and on.

They discussed the Green New Deal, Moreland Commission, fracking, schools, income inequality, clean energy, the Working Families Party and Women's Equality Party saga, the 1 % supporting Cuomo and Cuomo cover - ups.

Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams said they support a bill in Congress banning gun sales to suspected terrorists, an increase in the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, increased spending on roads and bridges, a ban on fracking for natural gas, and replacing the elevated portion of Interstate 81 in Syracuse with a boulevard.

Environment: Zephyr Teachout supports banning fracking, clear and simple.

That's why they oppose fracking, that's why they support public unions, that's why they oppose mandate relief, that's why they support the pensions, and most explicitly, that's why they pulled the stunt with the prisons.

Still, Rapfogel gushed, «Shelly loved to mentor people» and he also worked «for farmers, addressed issues about casino gambling, supported hospitals in upstate areas that needed the support, and was involved in fracking concerns.

Please scroll down to submit this letter of support (and any additional text) to the offices of NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, one of our few elected officials who has demanded that we understand the science and real environmental and health effects of fracking.

Unlike the incumbent, the engaging and personable Democratic challenger supports a moratorium on hydraulic fracking.

PHILLIPSBURG — Gov. Phil Murphy has announced he will join the governors of Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware to support a ban on fracking in the 3,000 - square - mile Delaware River watershed.

On the issue of hydrofracking in New York, Gibson supported the Cuomo administration's seemingly interminable study, welcomed its conclusion, but said he would be open to permitting fracking in the future if technology improves.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

The fracking ban has the least support among suburban voters, where the ban has the backing of 52 percent of voters.

The party promises a «significant expansion in new gas» including support for fracking, rules out a target for carbon free power and pledges to «halt the spread of subsidised onshore wind farms».

There has also been some debate during the campaign over Murphy's position on fracking, which appears to have evolved to the point where he is on the record in support of a moratorium — not the full out ban the Greens have been seeking since 2010.

Significant downsides remain though, notably the party's unqualified support for fracking and the EU - US free trade deal TTIP.

Clinton's past support of fracking has bubbled up as an issue in New York, which banned the underground natural - gas extraction in 2015 and where activists have pushed Clinton to abandon her previous position.

The rest of them are pretty worthless because they don't stand for anything so far as I can tell, or worse they stand for whatever will get them re-elected including supporting Cuomo on the SAFE Act and his idiotic fracking ban which has cost us 20,000 jobs.