Who wants fracking in NY? Gov. Cuomo, and a pack of Texas oilmen (Perry backers)!

From Liz Rich:

A friend of mine visiting her daughter in Midland, Texas (an oil capital) heard some Texas oil men (big Perry supporters) bragging about buying lots of land in upstate NY to lease to fracking companies. Good bye unpolluted water in NY State.

Someone tell Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Anything we can do about it? Seems to me Cuomo has already been bought off.

U.S. Can Try to End New York Fracking Lawsuit, Judge Rules | Verdant World News
August 16, 2011

U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis ruled that the U.S. government can try to throw out
a New York lawsuit over natural gas leases in New York State filed by Eric T. Schneiderman, New York Attorney General, on the grounds that the state cannot prove injury. The suit was filed on the grounds that the regulations allowing hydraulic fracturing without a full environmental review proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commission would affect the drinking water of 9 million New Yorkers. According to court papers filed by trade groups representing oil and gas companies with natural gas leases in New York State, the lawsuit could shut down gas development in the Marcellus Shale, one of the largest natural gas reservoirs in the world,
“for many years to come.”

If the lawsuit goes through, regulations would be halted until a full environmental review of
all health and safety risks is completed, in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. In the lawsuit, Schneiderman notes that New York City has spent $1.5 billion buying land to serve as a pollutant buffer, upgrading sewage plants, and regulating human activity in an effort to protect drinking water resources. He also points out that in Pennsylvania drilling of over 2,000 natural gas wells has resulted in “hundreds of violations of water pollution laws.” Several similar but separate suits will be consolidated with the New York State case.

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

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