FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JLCNY Opposes Permanent Hydraulic Fracturing Ban in New York BINGHAMTON – January 23, 2020 Contact: Dan Fitzsimmons, JLCNY, 607 775-5821  The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York issued the following press release in response to Governor Cuomo’s proposed permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing:   Dan Fitzsimmons, President of the Joint Landowners C [ ... ]

JANUARY 16, 2020 New York and Pennsylvania share a border and access to the Marcellus Shale – the largest natural gas field in the United States. But they do not share similar approaches to energy development. Pennsylvania has harnessed the potential of the Marcellus Shale and fracking technology. New York has taken the opposite approach by banning fracking and using creative legal tactics to t [ ... ]

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced legislation in the FY 2021 Executive Budget to make New York's fracking ban permanent. The measure would restrict the Department of Environmental Conservation from approving permits that would authorize an applicant to drill, deepen, plug back or convert wells that use high-volume hydraulic fracturing as a means to complete or recomplete a well, protecting the he [ ... ]

The Empire State’s economic performance since the end of the Great Recession hasn’t been especially outstanding, roughly equaling the US averages for growth in private employment and gross domestic product. But a closer look reveals a tale of two New Yorks. The 12-county metropolitan region that includes the Big Apple, with a population of 13.3 million, has gained jobs and grown personal inco [ ... ]

Pavillion, Wyoming has been a star in the fractivist sky for some time. It made a feature-performer out of Gasland hero John Fenton, but the star has fallen. The Wyoming County Department of Environmental Quality has studied Pavillion, the site of one of the greatest of fractivist myths, for six long years and just concluded, for the second time, that natural gas development is not responsible fo [ ... ]

By Jon Campbell / Gannett New York
Posted Dec 18, 2019 at 5:00 AM
CONKLIN — Dan Fitzsimmons was convinced the key to his family’s financial future was resting a mile beneath the surface. Major energy companies were willing to pay landowners life-altering sums of money for the oil-and-gas rights to their property, including Fitzsimmons’ 185 acres in rural Broome County. That is, they were w [ ... ]

HOUSTON — A decade ago, natural gas was heralded as the fuel of the future. In shale fields across the country, hydraulic fracturing uncorked a lucrative new source of supply. Energy giants like Exxon Mobil and Chevron snapped up smaller companies to get in on the action, and investors poured billions of dollars into export terminals to ship gas to China and Europe. The boom has given way to a  [ ... ]

Binghamton, NY - George Phillips, American History Teacher and Candidate for Congress issued the following statement on impeachment: "This truly is a sad day for our Republic. It would be impossible by any objective standard to find treason or serious crimes in the President's conduct that would warrant removal from office under the intent laid out by our Founding Fathers. It is also sad that C [ ... ]

Among the many subplots to emerge from recent impeachment hearings, one, in particular, might have been unexpected: fracking. In recent testimony to House lawmakers, Fiona Hill, John Bolton’s former direct report at the National Security Council and the White House’s former top expert on Russia, reported that Russian propaganda was working to undermine the use of hydraulic fracturing, aka frac [ ... ]

By Mark Harrington
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler slammed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for holding up natural gas pipelines.   The New York governor's decision to veto pipelines is "the worst environmental decision by an elected official in the past year," the EPA administrator said during remarks Tuesday to the Detroit Economic Club. In fact, the decision is "subjecting New Engla [ ... ]

Good news, the middle class is getting wealthier thanks to Trump's economic policies of tax and regulatory relief. This is great news for American families as it allows them to spend money which stimulates the economy as a whole.     The recently published chart above from Sentier Research shows the rate at which the medium household income has risen si [ ... ]

On Monday, September 23, 2019, at about 1:00 am, a truck carrying compressed natural gas overturned on Interstate 88 near Binghamton, New York. The crash killed the driver, 52 year old Jeffrey Lind, and punctured the truck’s container system, resulting in compressed methane gas leaking into the atmosphere. That caused Governor Andrew Cuomo to issue a state of emergency in Broome County, New York [ ... ]

How do you know Gov. Andrew Cuomo has realized a policy is a political loser? Watch for him to start claiming someone else is responsible. Thus his comment in an interview last week about how the “political decision” of OK’ing a pipeline to ease the Brooklyn and Long Island natural gas shortage “will probably come down to the state Legislature.” Bull: It’s Cuomo’s Department of Env [ ... ]

In the coming days a Spanish-flagged ship, the Catalunya Spirit, will deliver a shipment of Russia-originated liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Puerto Rico. Bizarrely, the United States—a leading exporter of LNG—is nonetheless importing it from a geopolitical rival. And this isn’t a first. Last year a supply of Russian LNG arrived in Boston amidst a spike in demand to fight off the winter cold. [ ... ]