New York State bans shale gas extraction method fracking, despite large gas deposits.
Governor Andrew Cuomo refers in its decision to ban fracking to health risks for the population, both in terms of groundwater degradation and air emissions.
New York the second US state after Vermont that prohibit fracking. But unlike Vermont, there are large gas deposits in New York near the border with the neighboring state of Pennsylvania.
Paul Hartman of the trade association Natural Gas Alliance regrets the governor’s decision and says New Yorkers now miss out on the ecological and economic benefits of shale gas permits.
The recent increase in mining of shale gas in the US has reduced its dependence on fossil fuel supplies from OPEC, and keeps on making the United States exporter of gas and oil. Shale gas extraction in the United States is a major contributor to world oil prices have fallen in the fall.
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