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One Year Into NY’s Fracking Ban And Upstate’s Economy Is Getting Killed

Michael Bastasch It’s been one year since Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, from happening in New York, and the natural gas-rich Southern Tier has been hemorrhaging jobs. While New York’s economy has added jobs on the whole, jobs are disappearing in regions where natural gas drilling would have…