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New York Times: This town in the Finger Lakes region is not the kind of place where one would expect a grass-roots uprising. Even its promotional brochure makes it sound sleepy, listing the main attractions as “a few large dairy farms, some crop farms and several horse ranches.” But Dryden could soon be synonymous with something more than animals and agriculture. In August 2011, the town passed a zoning ordinance effectively forbidding hydraulic fracturing, the controversial gas extraction method also known as......
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Court Case on Fracking Ban in Dryden, N.Y., May Have Wide Implications
Posted by New York Times: JESSE McKINLEY on October 23rd, 2013
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