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New Yorkers Deliver Unprecedented 200K+ Comments on Cuomo’s Fracking Rules
Posted by EcoWatch: Artists Against Fracking on January 11th, 2013
EcoWatch: On the final day of the 30-day public comment period on the Cuomo administration’s proposed fracking rules, a coalition of New Yorkers and organizations opposed to fracking--including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon of Artists against Fracking--delivered an unprecedented 200,000-plus public comments to the state’s DEC.
On the final day of the 30-day public comment period on the Cuomo administration’s proposed fracking rules, a coalition of New Yorkers and organizations opposed to fracking--including...
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Imagine There’s No Fracking … Give Clean Energy a Chance
Posted by EcoWatch: Artists Against Fracking on December 10th, 2012
EcoWatch: Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon placed a full-page ad in the Dec. 10 New York Times, calling on Governor Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking … give clean energy a chance.” The ad illustrates and describes how cement in wells at such great depths leaks, poisoning drinking water with gases and toxic chemicals.
“No amount of regulation can ever make fracking safe,” the ad reads. “No one can be sent thousands of feet under the Earth to make repairs once the cement fails--and it will. The enormous pressure...