New Yorkers who are missing out on the natural gas revolution could be victims of Russian spy operations that fund popular environmental groups, current and former U.S. government officials and experts on Russia worry.
Natural gas development of the celebrated Marcellus Shale deposits has spurred jobs and other economic growth in neighboring Pennsylvania. But not in New York, which nearly 10 years  [ ... ]

Upstate New York landowners have endured Gov. Cuomo denying our property rights, blocking vital natural gas infrastructure, oppressive regulations, high taxes, and so much more. Upstate New York landowners have endured Gov. Cuomo denying our property rights, blocking vital natural gas infrastructure, oppressive regulations, high taxes, and so much more. This opinion piece from, The Seatt [ ... ]

As Cortney wrote yesterday, New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo decided to use his executive authority to expand voting rights to felons on parole. A bill had stalled in the legislature, so Cuomo issued an executive order. Progressives, who think the governor did this to boost his chances at beating actress Cynthia Nixon rather than doing it because he felt it was good policy, criticized the mo [ ... ]

ALBANY – With attacks from coming from the left and right, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has seen his favorability ranking among New Yorkers slip into a tie with his worst-ever showing since becoming governor in 2011, a new poll has found. Meanwhile, according to Siena College, his Democratic challenger, activist and actress Cynthia Nixon, has cut into his otherwise large lead since she announced her bi [ ... ]

One of the Republican candidates for governor toured parts of the Southern Tier. Marc Molinaro stopped and walked around Corning’s Market Street. The Dutchess county executive says the state government isn't being held accountable. He believes New York isn't as affordable as it used to be. Molinaro says the best way to fix the state's financial issues is to bring people together to share idea [ ... ]

When he formally launched his run for governor earlier this month, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro said that “all New Yorkers are paying a corruption tax.” It is a tax, Molinaro explained, that is the result of both legal and illegal malfeasance, of wasteful, ineffective, and corrupt government. In his initial remarks that day, at events in Tivoli and Albany, and during multiple exchan [ ... ]

GOP gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro is hoping the past will come back to bite Gov. Andrew Cuomo. When Cuomo was state attorney general, he investigated then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer in the 2007 Troopergate scandal, resulting in Spitzer’s aides being slapped with ethics violations for misusing government resources to dig up dirt on former state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. Now, Molinaro ha [ ... ]

A former top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was found guilty on Tuesday of three corruption-related charges, a repudiation of the murky back-room dealings in Albany laid bare during the nearly eight-week trial. The conviction capped a stunning fall for the former aide, Joseph Percoco, once the governor’s executive deputy secretary and longtime confidant. He was convicted of soliciting and accepti [ ... ]

The Fracking Boom and Methane Reductions Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Jim WillisJim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)
April 13, 2018
Five natural gas trade associations representing pretty much the entire natural gas industry (producers, suppliers, pipelines and local gas utilities) sent a joint letter to President Trump on Tuesday asking the President to clarify the role of states in administering Clean Water Act Section 401. Specifically, [ ... ]

Actress Cynthia Nixon doesn’t think banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, goes far enough. So, the gubernatorial candidate announced she would “not approve any new use of fracked gas” in the state if elected.Actress Cynthia Nixon doesn’t think banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, goes far enough. So, the gubernatorial candidate announced she would “not approve any new use of f [ ... ]

"...PRIVATE PROPERTY – a fundamental human right and the guardian of all other rights. "...PRIVATE PROPERTY – a fundamental human right and the guardian of all other rights. You can’t have freedom of press or religion if you can’t own a printer or a church. That's why the U.S. Constitution refers to private property more than to any other right. If we cannot be free to own, use,  [ ... ]

A pillar of the anti-fracking movement has fallen now that a federal judge has set aside a lucrative jury award and has ordered a new trial. It involves the Dimock case that was spotlighted by the 2010 documentary “Gasland,” which sought to portray drilling as harmful to drinking water supplies. 
Hydraulic fracturing, of course, is the technique used to break the shale oil and natural gas  [ ... ]

Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro announced his run for governor on Monday, April 2, 2018