[bill1952]

Oh BS!

Fracking isn’t going to do one thing regarding water.
NYC is not the be all of NY although it is most amenable to Liberal control - How about move technology forward and stop getting in the way of progress in America instated of nonsensical green enviro nut issues.

[muawiyah]

As usual someone doesn't read the response ~ just what he's made up in his own mind to answer.

Fraking won't do a darned thing to the water, you know that, I know that, Cuomo knows that, everybody knows that.

Now, tell it to the several million voters in NYC first and get back to me with your answer ~ I just whizzed right on by that problem since it's obvious that the science isn't relevant when you have the original political problem.

Now, regarding the billions of dollars the government could make on the taxes ~ on government owned land.

Well, there, you see that's the greater part of the problem. The benefit to New York state is minimal ~ since so much of this territory is owned by New York City!

About private use of land ~ there is some of course but not as much as you imagine.

On the other hand if they change the use of this land (having gone to court to force the sale through eminent domain for a specific purpose ~ water for NYC) what happens is people like me find lawyers and we go to court and ask that the land revert to the owners/heirs since the terms of the taking were violated. We then drill for gas, do all the fraking we want, and the people in NYC can just go take a hike.

Do you see the problem for Cuomo? He's between a rock (shale) and a hard place (Democrats become unviable in NYC).

BTW, everybody knew New York would be the hardest sell for any of this because of the political problems. The science didn't change just because it jumped a stateline.

[muawiyah]

Every time you say "BS" you are undertaking a personal attack on me. Cut it out. I'm just giving you the bad news ~ most of the land involved is already owned by the government of New York City for the purpose of providing water to the taxpayers and industries of New York City.

They'll be the ones to ultimately decide if they want to also pump gas, and when they do I'm going to go after it myself in the exercise of my own property rights.

Why do you want to get in my way?