{"id":9583,"date":"2015-06-30T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2015-06-30T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:07:06","slug":"new-york-state-ban-on-fracking-made-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9583","title":{"rendered":"New York State Ban On Fracking Made Official"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York State Ban On Fracking Made Official<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\u201c<\/span>After years of exhaustive research and examination of the science and facts, prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing is the only reasonable\u00a0alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were the words many activists in New York never expected to hear from Joe Martens, head of the state\u2019s Department of Environmental Conservation, but they were included in a statement released today as New York made thestate\u2019s ban on fracking\u00a0official.<\/a><\/p>\n

This step in the process was expected after the\u00a0release in May<\/a>\u00a0of the massive 1,448 page report on fracking that was seven years in the making which also was preceded by the Cuomo administration announcing they planned to ban fracking\u00a0back in\u00a0December.<\/a><\/p>\n

While there had been some mentions\u00a0in the media<\/a>\u00a0that the recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA<\/span>) report on fracking and drinking water contamination might cause trouble for the Cuomo administration, it appears that trouble was limited to predictable Republican statements about Cuomo\u2019s decision being based on \u201ccontroversial scientific\u00a0studies.\u201d<\/p>\n

As explained in detail in\u00a0this DeSmog piece by Sharon Kelly<\/a>, if you read the\u00a0EPA<\/span>\u00a0report and didn\u2019t just rely on headlines\u00a0in the New York Post<\/a>\u00a0to get your information, the report actually provides support for New York\u2019s decision for a fracking\u00a0ban.<\/p>\n

New York now is the only state with known large amounts of shale deposits that has enacted a ban on fracking. In the past week, the state has also released\u00a0a new energy plan\u00a0<\/a>with goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% (below 1990 levels) by 2030 and 80% by 2050 and to produce 50% of its electricity from renewables by\u00a02030.<\/p>\n

As the oil industry prepares to roll out\u00a0fracking technology around the globe<\/a>, New York has taken an important step in showing the world what a \u201creasonable alternative\u201d looks like.<\/p>\n

As DeSmogBlog concluded in our 2011 report\u00a0Fracking the Future<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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