Cuomo Visits Binghamton, (Non)Comments on Fracking Decision
Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited New York’s Southern Tier region yesterday—specifically Binghamton—to get a first-hand update on the Southern Tier’s economic development plan. (Short version: our local economy is and has been in the crapper for years.) Gov. Andy was greeted by anti-drilling and some pro-drilling protesters. During a press conference, he was asked by reporters to comment on whether and when fracking would come to the state. His answer was non-committal—he’s a good politician that way.
Here’s what he did, and did not, say:
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Both sides of the drilling debate in New York are still coming to grips with both the fact, and the way, the state Dept. of Environment Conservation (DEC) filed for a 90-day extension to the fracking rulemaking process—keeping the possibility of fracking alive in New York.
In a purely political move, the Town of Onondaga, NY (Syracuse suburb) voted last night to permanently ban hydraulic fracturing—even though a) the Syracuse watershed area, which Onondaga is part of, is expressly off limits for drilling in the DEC’s draft drilling rules, and b) such a permanent ban may not be legal (two similar cases are on appeal in NY courts).