It seems that New Yorkers would rather listen to Natalie Merchant sing of happiness and sign feel-good petitions created by Yoko Ono than deliver real jobs to the more than 700,000 people out of work in their state.
That's
what the anti-hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, stance boils down to —
celebrity and emotion winning out over economic and scientific facts.
New
York regulators are debating their stance on fracking, a drilling
process in which chemically treated water is plunged underground to help
shatter rock and free natural gas. New York holds the largest untapped
reserves in the Marcellus Shale rock formation that runs through
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and with that, a key to
economic prosperity.
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