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New York Governor Cuomo Bans Fracking
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17-12-2014, 08:11 PM
In a shocking decision counter to recent political trends New York Governor Cuomo announced a banning of fracking on environmental grounds:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/nyregi....html?_r=0 
18-12-2014, 05:52 AM
Fantastic news. And symbolically powerful.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her. “I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation. 
18-12-2014, 06:16 AM
It will be a bitter fight in the Courts. New York has a lot of ongoing fracking and much more planned. I think its great news, but I'm not sure in the end it will prevail....but let us hope!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
18-12-2014, 04:58 PM
I don't trust New York politics. This could be a move to take the heat off elsewhere while the price of oil dropping has made it possible.
As soon as push comes to shove they'll be right back to cracking the Earth's bedrock, which is crazy if you think about it. They are messing with Earth in a serious way with consequences they have no idea of. It should be called "Cracking" instead of "Fracking" because it is the equivalent of crack as far as oil addiction. |
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