If the New York Assembly proves victorious there will be no fracking in New York until at least May 2015 as a two-year moratorium has been passed by the body pending further studies of the safety of the drilling technique. Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale […]
BY DREW JOHNSON (Republished with permission) Environmental activists regularly scare Americans about our domestic energy resources — and urge us to abandon development of them. Witness the various efforts to stop hydraulic fracturing, offshore and onshore drilling, and the like. What life would look like in this new green world, though, rarely gets coverage. Considering […]
The Ramapough Lenape Tribe of Native Americans will hold a public ceremony on Saturday, May 5 in Mahwah to join with other Native American groups and the general public to oppose the practice known as “Fracking” to drill local bedrock for the extraction and production of oil and natural gas, particularly on tribal lands where […]
An “Oxford-style” debate on the future of “hydro-fracking” or “fracking” in New York’s Marcellus Shale region will take place on Thursday, December 1, 2011, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., at the Nyack Village Theater, 94 Main Street (2nd Floor), in downtown Nyack, New York. The public and media are invited to attend. The event is co-produced […]