Hope.for fracking yet

[G-Man]

http://wivb.com/2015/06/04/epa-releases-report-prompts-lawmaker-to-call-for-fracking-in-ny/

[Mr VJP]

No real surprise here.  NY seems to pass laws based on buying votes and bending to popular fear more than anything.  That's how NY got the SAFE Act too.  

 

Data and hard evidence will always be rejected whenever the slightest possible danger exists in the minds of the majority of NY voters, regardless of the costs to the state and it's citizens.

 

In NY rule of law is ignored.  Majority rules, even when the majority is it's own worst enemy or in support of infringing on Constitutional rights.

 

[scolopaxmatt]

In NY rule of law is ignored.  Majority rules, even when the majority is it's own worst enemy or in support of infringing on Constitutional rights.

 

You're damn right.  Master Cuomo will have none of your quibbling. 

 

Render unto Caesar!

[Meat First]

Wouldn't you rather give your money to the Saudi's?  No?  Enough is enough but I'm sure Yoko Ono, Mark Ruffalo et al are cooking up another lawsuit as we speak..And they have never been north of Columbus Circle..

Edited June 5, 2015 by Meat First

[ATbuckhunter]

Still says that there was water pollution. That's enough for me to support Cuomo on this. 

[G-Man]

You flush your toilet there is water pollution, oil leak on an engine, can't ban everything...

[Mr VJP]

NY will never admit it made a mistake.  The window of golden opportunity has passed and many NY citizens have once again been victimized by Albany and it's liberal base.

 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2015/06/05/even-liberal-npr-covers-epa-fracking-study-abc-nbc-punt?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_term=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=npr-fracking

 

[Mr VJP]

From The Wall Street Journal

 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-epa-fracking-miracle-1433460321

 

The truth is that state oversight, industry best practices and especially innovation in technology and engineering are more than adequate to protect water and the wider ecology, as well as the prosperity that fracking underwrites. The EPA paper even accepts that the domestic energy boom has “increased domestic energy supplies and brought economic benefits to many areas of the United States.”

Some areas—but not all. One exception is New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomobanned fracking by executive order after winning re-election last year. The Democrat hinted during his campaign that he was open to drilling, especially upstate atop the oil-and-gas-rich Marcellus Shale that straddles Pennsylvania and the Empire State.

But suddenly his health department rolled out a report full of dubious science concluding that it could not say with “absolute scientific certainty”—as if such a thing exists—that fracking does not endanger the public. The department cited “potential water contamination” and “the potential to affect drinking water quality.”

In other words, Mr. Cuomo’s sleuths couldn’t find conclusive evidence that fracking harms drinking water, so he banned it until they can. Even as formerly depressed and deindustrialized Pennsylvania regions benefit from drilling, over the border the unlucky saps must bow to the green superstitions of New York City elites.

Edited June 7, 2015 by Mr VJP

[Mr VJP]

"The Rochester and Buffalo metro areas are the third and fourth poorest cities in America after Detroit and Cleveland, according to the Census, but they could become the northeastern capitals of the U.S. energy renaissance. When even the EPA blesses fracking, the self-serving political hackery behind Mr. Cuomo’s ban is exposed for all the world to see."

WSJ