The Fallout from the NY Fracking Ban

[Valin]

Via Meadia:

Dec 21, 2014

 

Earlier this week, the Cuomo administration announced its intention to ban fracking in New York state. As the NYT reports, that isn’t going over well in Binghamton:

 

“The casinos went down, fracking went down — come on; this place is dead in the water now,” said Pat Shea, 64, a retired parks employee drinking coffee in a McDonald’s on a day when the weather outside seemed to mirror the local mood: cold, blustery, and sunless. “This whole area was thumbed at, snubbed, like it was nothing.” […]

 

From one end of Binghamton to another, and up and down the economic ladder, residents voiced their disbelief…At the white-napkin Binghamton Club, Frederick Russell, a 60-year-old financial adviser with a Monopoly Man mustache, said he was amazed by how far the region had fallen.

The Rust Belt is a region desperate for some kind of good economic news, and in many places the shale boom is one potential solution. Cuomo’s Administration cited health and environmental concerns when it announced it would be banning fracking in New York state, though a leaked version of a state review of the controversial drilling process gave it a clean bill of health. Moreover, as drillers refine the techniques needed to extract oil and gas from shale, they’re figuring out how to do so in a safer, more efficient manner.

 

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[Cyber_Liberty]

 

“The casinos went down, fracking went down — come on; this place is dead in the water now,” said Pat Shea, 64, a retired parks employee drinking coffee in a McDonald’s on a day when the weather outside seemed to mirror the local mood: cold, blustery, and sunless. “This whole area was thumbed at, snubbed, like it was nothing.” […]

 

There's a reason why they think your city is "nothing." Because to them, it is. Everything that isn't NYC or Albany is "nothing."

[Valin]

 

“The casinos went down, fracking went down — come on; this place is dead in the water now,” said Pat Shea, 64, a retired parks employee drinking coffee in a McDonald’s on a day when the weather outside seemed to mirror the local mood: cold, blustery, and sunless. “This whole area was thumbed at, snubbed, like it was nothing.” […]

There's a reason why they think your city is "nothing." Because to them, it is. Everything that isn't NYC or Albany is "nothing."

 

Meanwhile right over the border in PA...Party Time...Let The Good Times Roll.

[Cyber_Liberty]

You betcha. The shale veins spill wayyyy over into PA. Drake, the first oil well, was in western PA, so there's history.