{"id":3194,"date":"2014-12-18T07:19:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2014-12-18T07:19:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:19:30","slug":"new-york-fracking-ban-reverberates-nationally-al-jazeera-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3194","title":{"rendered":"New York fracking ban reverberates nationally | Al Jazeera America"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York fracking ban reverberates nationally | Al Jazeera America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 The news took even the most seasoned environmental activists by surprise: after years of review,\u00a0Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0that New York State would ban hydraulic fracturing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can barely contain myself,\u201d said Nadia Steinzor, the eastern coordinator for national non-profit Earthworks. \u201cEven though Cuomo recently said he was going to make a clear decision, we were not expecting something as exciting and straightforward as this.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York State\u2019s decision comes two years after the state\u2019s Department of Health initiated a review of the possible health impacts of hydraulic fracturing, a process in which thousands of gallons of water\u00a0is mixed with chemicals and sand and pumped deep into the earth to break up gas-rich shale rock formations. The process has been approved in dozens of states across the U.S. and has often been touted by supporters as an economic boon to struggling regions, including next door in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s decision is particularly significant because the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, two of the most productive gas plays in the world, lie underneath the state. While there is some debate over the economic benefits of fracking, there\u2019s little doubt that if New York were to legalize the practice it could have reaped billions in revenue and created hundreds or thousands of jobs. By banning the practice, Cuomo has become one of the first state leaders to endorse the idea that the potential health and environmental impacts of fracking outweigh the potential economic benefits. Vermont is the only other state with a ban on fracking, although Vermont doesn\u2019t sit atop shale.<\/p>\n

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New York fracking ban reverberates nationally | Al Jazeera America. NEW YORK \u2014 The news took even the most seasoned environmental activists by surprise: after years of review,\u00a0Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday\u00a0that New York State would ban hydraulic fracturing. \u201cI can barely contain myself,\u201d said Nadia Steinzor, the eastern coordinator for national non-profit Earthworks. \u201cEven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1981,331,332,1994],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-fracking","tag-fracking-ban","tag-new-york-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}