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Court Case on Fracking Ban in Dryden, N.Y., May Have Wide Implications
2013-10-23 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: This town in the Finger Lakes region is not the kind of place where one would expect a grass-roots uprising. Even its promotional brochure makes it sound sleepy, listing the main attractions as a few large dairy farms, some crop farms and several horse ranches. But Dryden could soon be synonymous with something more than animals and agriculture. In August 2011, the town passed a zoning ordinance effectively forbidding hydraulic fracturing, the controversial gas extraction method also known as...
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