Long Islanders gathered to send a message to Albany that New York State should ban hydraulic fracturing altogether, rather than parse new rules to unleash natural gas extraction companies to dig some 70,000 wells upstate.
Representatives from Food & Water Watch, Grassroots Environmental Education, Reach Out America and other organizations sharply criticized proposed standards as failing to protect the state's residents from the highly polluting method of gas drilling.
"Fracking poses a threat to Long Island's air, food and water," said Sam Bernhardt, a Long Island native who works for Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit consumer group that supports a ban on fracking "There are safer alternatives to natural gas, but there are no alternatives to water. We urge Governor Cuomo and Long Island legislators to put our health before industry profits and ban fracking."
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