One NY Town Plans to Frack Anyway, Looks for Way Around Cuomo Ban

A common misconception for those who live in New York--especially dunderheaded anti-drillers--is that "Cuomo banned all fracking" in the Empire State. Sorry you dolts, fracking has been going on in this state for more than 40 years--and continues to this very day. The kind of fracking Cuomo banned is water-based, high volume horizontal fracking. New York's drillers have and continue to drill vertical wells and frack them using less than 75,000 gallons of water. Presumably if a driller wants to drill a horizontal shale well and use something other than water, they can do that as well. At least, that's the theory--and it's that theory that the Town of Windsor (in Broome County, NY) is using to develop a plan to allow drillers to develop new shale wells in the town...

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