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NY Farmers: Fracking Means Salvation or Ruin
AP — When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of New York. “I go over the border and see people planting orchards, buying tractors, putting money back in their land,” said Fitzsimmons… While Fitzsimmons and others in his coalition look south and see the land of milk and honey, other farmers point to Pennsylvania as a case history for how the shale gas boom can be disastrous to agriculture. Read article
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