Sentences with phrase «year fracking ban»

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A 10 - year ban on fracking in the south - east of SA under the new Liberal Government has angered much of the resources industry.

Resources industry figures are angry over new Premier Steven Marshall's plans to impose a 10 - year ban on fracking in a 21,000 - square - kilometre region in South Australia's south - east, and say it undermines his mantra that the state is open for business.

There is also the matter of two years ago when during a press conference announcing a ban on fracking, Zucker seemed to say he wouldn't let his children live near land being fracked.

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.

A year later, we won a fracking ban in New York State, and Mayor de Blasio's voice on the issue really helped achieve that victory.

Perhaps rattled by his relatively anemic win in last year's Democratic primary against liberal long shot Zephyr Teachout, he has quelled key camps of left - wing opposition by unilaterally banning fracking, raising wages for fast - food workers and endorsing a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage.

«Four years ago I ran for governor calling for ban on fracking, rather than just a moratorium like most environmental groups.

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.

During his seven years as governor he has raised the minimum wage, introduced a free college program, passed gun control legislation, raised the age of criminal responsibility, legalized same - sex marriage, and banned fracking.

The Park Foundation, an Ithaca - based philanthropic fund, has also continued to fund state - based anti-fracking efforts despite the ban, including a $ 125,000 grant to New Yorkers Against Fracking earlier this year.

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.

It will probably go down as the biggest decision of the year in New York State — a ban on fracking.

A Cuomo campaign spokesman said the 60 - year - old governor «has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» including legalizing gay marriage, tightening gun restrictions, raising the minimum wage, expanding public education funding and banning fracking.

Ultimately, the state moved to put a ban in place on high - volume fracking at the end of last year and the ban formally took effect in early 2015.

After more than six years of debate that started long before his arrival in the executive mansion in January 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last year that the state would ban fracking in New York for the foreseeable future due to health risks.

Julia Walsh, who's led the group Frack Action through years of protests, hearing testimony, and other actions, helped deliver a thank you petition to Governor Cuomo the day the fracking ban was formalized.

Mr. Cuomo, re-elected this fall to a second term, dithered for years about banning fracking.

Marshall says she and other advocates have learned, through the fracking fight, where years of protests eventually led Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process, that applying political pressure can work.

Cuomo's Health Commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker announced late last year that he was recommending that fracking be banned in New York.

''... we call it the Green New Deal because we say we want to ban fracking in New York and build out a 100 percent clean energy system over the next 15 years,» said Hawkins.

This past fall, we reported that a year after New York State banned fracking, no one decided to file a legal challenge.

The initiatives fit with Cuomo's shift toward a more aggressive position on climate issues in the last year, since he banned fracking.

On Wednesday, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration said that it would issue a fracking ban early next year.

I have been clear throughout my campaign this year, as I was in my 2010 campaign, that as Governor I will ban fracking and will work to build a 100 % clean renewable energy system by 2030 in New York State.

Four years ago I called for a ban on fracking because of its negative impact on the environment and because it is not a solution to global climate change,» said Hawkins.

For the past six years the state has vexed both constituencies, without provoking an outright revolt by either, by observing a moratorium on fracking without actually banning it.

Meanwhile, after studying the issue for years and coming under intense political pressure from the left wing of his Democratic party, the Cuomo administration claimed fracking poses potential health risks and banned the practice in New York in late 2014 just weeks after his reelection.

Stringer's amicus is in support of the upstate town of Dryden, which two years ago banned fracking under a local «home - rule» provision.

Julia Walsh, who's led the group Frack Action through years of protests, hearing testimony, and other actions, helped deliver a thank you petition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo the day the fracking ban was formalized.

After years of uncertainty, New York has announced that it will ban fracking in the state for good.

But in September, President Francois Hollande pledged to continue a ban on fracking imposed last year by his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Oil and gas is big business in Texas, which passed a law this year that prevents towns and cities from banning fracking.

... Despite being held up as an environmental leader and championing environmental causes going back to his first time as governor, from 1975 to 1983, Brown's refusal to ban fracking has prompted protests for years.

The number of municipalities banning fracking is up 50 % from last year, and up from just 51 municipalities in 2015!

After over six years of campaigning against fracking by Friends of the Earth Scotland and local communities, the Scottish government announced on 3 October to effectively ban unconventional oil and gas extraction - in short: fracking — in the whole country.

Under a fracking ban, they write, U.S. consumers in 2030 would pay about $ 100 billion more a year for natural gas.