Officials in Albany will soon decide whether or not to authorize horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a controversial gas drilling process, in the state. While citizens have written thousands of letters to the governor and the Department of Environmental Conservation protesting the health and environmental risks associated with fracking, the gas industry has been busy writing checks to Albany decision makers.
A new report by Common Cause NY, titled, “Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets: Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in New York to Influence Public Policy,” covering the period 2007-2011, exposes backroom politics at work.
The Daily News
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