Tag: hydraulic fracturing

Aggressive upstate land grab sets up taxpayers for fracking fall-out

Stormy waters are brewing. It begins in upstate New York and could spill over into Westchester, the rest of the state, and across the country. The storm has its source in residential “fracking” – high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing for natural gas under people’s homes. Gas drilling companies, which covet the underground gas deposits in New…