Right now I am sitting on a small Lake in NEPA in the center of the fracking revolution, 10 miles north is Southern Tier of New York, which sits on the thickest (and potentially the richest) part of the Marcellus Shale. But because of Il Duce Jr. His Royal Snideness Prince Andrew Cuomo fiat decision to ban fracking in the most depressed areas of an already horribly overtaxed and under performing Upstate New York. It is sickening to listen to my scanner and hear overdose after overdose, some saved, too many lost. The “Progressives” in New York have strangled the state and created a mafia like economy, dictated by a Queens thug with no personality and no morals.
Someday justice will reign, but I hope to hell I am long gone from here, which hurts deeply as this was my Hometown, as it was Rod Serlings... we truly live in the Twilight Zone.
You hit it in the head with the southern tier. They could be having a manufacturing Renaissance with cheap natural gas piped right into the building but Gov. Cueball won’t allow it. The potential for thousnads of good middle class jobs goes down the crapper.
Many areas of Rural Upstate NY is destined to be tabacco road for a long time to come.
Well at least NY isn't like CT and IL @ Junk Bond status.... Yet.
Seriously I have friends in Up State and it is a bleeping shame what he is doing to those good folks. If he decided to all fracking in Up-State, the state of NY could go energy self-sufficient for starters. Or, with water close by why not large vessels to convert it to LNG for export? Heck grain ships go to Maumee OH to load up, and head overseas, why not from Up-State even if it means a small pipeline..