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Latest Move on Fracking Shows Democracy is Alive and Well in NY
Posted by EcoWatch: Paul Gallay on February 28th, 2013
EcoWatch: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s recent decision to hit the reset button on fracking proves that participatory democracy is alive and well in New York.
Last week, Cuomo’s State Health Commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, announced that he needs more time to review fracking’s health impacts, meaning that the state’s current proposed fracking regulations will expire on Feb. 28. Any future plans for fracking now depend on how the health issue comes out, which may take as much as a year or more to determine, according...
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Why New Yorkers Don’t Trust Governor Cuomo on Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: Paul Gallay on February 12th, 2013
EcoWatch: Nearly 300,000 comments have been submitted on fracking by increasingly concerned New Yorkers.
In October 2011 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo frankly admitted that he had yet to earn his constituents’ trust on fracking.
Why is there still no trust for Cuomo, sixteen months later, on the verge of his big decision whether to give fracking the go-ahead?
If anything, public confidence in New York’s fracking process has dropped since 2011. Nearly three times as many New Yorkers now say they will be...
New York’s Fracking Process is Broken
Posted by EcoWatch: Paul Gallay on January 16th, 2013
EcoWatch: By the Jan. 11 deadline set by the state, concerned citizens filed more than 200,000 comments blasting the deficiencies in the draft regulations.
New York’s four-year effort to assess the safety of the controversial gas drilling practice known as fracking is broken. To fix it, the state must either declare a ban on fracking, or extend the moratorium now in place while it addresses the fundamental flaws in what has been, to date, an almost Kafkaesque regulatory process.
The environmental community...