NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Chooses Pot Farms Over Shale Energy

In December 2014, then-Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, banned hydraulic fracturing in the state (see After 6+ Years, Andrew Cuomo Bans Fracking in New York). Just to drive the nail all the way into the coffin of fracking, while everyone was distracted by the just-breaking coronavirus pandemic, Cuomo slipped a permanent ban on fracking into the 2020 budget bill, which was passed by the obsequious Democrat state legislature (see Cuomo PERMANENTLY Bans NY Fracking in Now-Adopted Budget). Kathy Hochul, who replaced the disgraced Cuomo as governor last year, is trying to one-up Cuomo by banning new natural gas hookups for residents and businesses (see NY Repubs Fight Back Against Crazy Dem Plan to Phase Out NatGas). It's bizarre. Instead of allowing fracking in Upstate, Hochul wants to establish a bunch of dope-smoking pot farms.

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