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New Yorks Fracking Process is Broken
2013-01-16 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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 Yorks 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...
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