It's before dawn at the town's only stoplight, and the first of what will be hundreds of heavy trucks that day already are rumbling by. Mayor John Wilson is busy at the Shell gas station, where he ...

The conference, Hydrofracking: Exploring the Legal Issues in the Context of Politics, Science and the Economy, was held March 28-29, 2011, sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law and The ...

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:51:23 GMT — After two years of research and public input, Town Board members in Skaneateles pulled the trigger on a new zoning law prohibiting hydrofracking and other forms of ...

Solar power is intermittent but the grid needs reliable power around the clock. The writer argues that natural gas from shale can bridge the gap. Renewable energy is booming and that is a good thing.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that he will incorporate legislation in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Executive Budget permanently banning fracking in New York. Cuomo stated that the temporary ban ...

The town of DeWitt wants to enact a six-month moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, while it develops regulations A public hearing on the proposed moratorium is set for 7:45 p.m. March ...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:20:54 GMT — Pennsylvania dairy farmers Carolyn Knapp and Carol French think their problems with hydrofracking boil down to the water. They believe the water is causing their family ...

CANASTOTA - Attorney David Slottje is making his way across the state speaking to residents of rural towns and villages about their options when deciding how to handle hydrofracking. Slottje addressed ...

About two dozen protesters were outside Cuomo's office calling on him to ban hydrofracking. The process uses water and chemicals to extract natural gas from the earth. "The risk of contamination, ...

Representatives of faculty and student groups at SUNY Cortland will offer a teach-in on the subject of a newer form of natural gas drilling that is likely coming to Upstate New York, on Wednesday, Nov ...

Natural gas has been hiding in New York's share of the Marcellus shale -- anywhere from 1,000 feet to about a mile and a half into the ground -- for several hundred million years. It will be there ...