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• [1] Hugh from Crown Heights July 24, 2008 - 10:16AM

  What role is raw politics playing in this? Did Paterson get a flood of calls? Did he finally realize that he has to be something more than a flunky for the Bruno-istas?

  
  
• [2] Joanne from Boonton, NJ July 24, 2008 - 10:23AM

  As a native of Binghamton, I'm concerned about the natural gas drilling and its environmental impact on the local area. The influx of money and jobs are good, but will the natural beauty be sacrificed?

  The local paper, the Press & Sun-Bulletin, has a great deal of information on the issue from the area perspective.

  Link here:

  http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999

  /NEWS01/80507030&theme=gaslease&template=gas

  
  
• [3] Laurie July 24, 2008 - 06:14PM

  Ilya, et al, great job, loved all the pieces. We were thrilled to see them. BUT, let's give a little credit to the hundreds of us nameless folks working right down on the ground, who bombarded the governor's office with phone calls and e-mails for days and nights right into the day of the signing. A lot of us have missed a lot of sleep through the entire month of July digging up info and getting the word out to others to write and call and doing so ourselves. Just from the phone calls and e-mails in the last 2 weeks, the governor's office had to be getting the sense that there is a groundswell of intense objection, not only to the process of hydraulic fracturing itself, but to DEC's laziness, arrogance, ineptitude, complicity and conflict of interest. The fox is guarding the henhouse on this one.