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 Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:28 am Post subject: drilling moratorium that's set to expire June 1. |
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"If Gov. Cuomo is going through so
much effort to correct [New York's] fiscal
crisis through the budget, the other side
is looking at the regulatory regime and
whether it impedes or promotes growth,"
notes Adirondack-area attorney Karen
Moreau, founder of the property-rights
nonprofit Foundation for Land and
Liberty.
But will Martens impede or promote the
economic-growth opportunity that gas
drilling represents?
Since being tapped for the DEC, he's
mostly sounded pro-growth -- declaring,
for example: "I intend to make sure that
the DEC is responsive to business and
that we work together to avoid regulatory
stalemate." Martens also suggested that
the DEC would issue new drilling
regulations before the expiration of the
moratorium this summer.
But anti-drilling ideologues have used
concerns that the new drilling method,
hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," could
contaminate water supplies for much of
the state, including New York City -- and
Martens has played to them, too: "We won't undertake drilling until we're confident it can be done
safely. And protecting water supplies is, at the essence, our highest priority."
More important, Martens' background -- including what he said on the topic before heading to DEC
-- suggests that Cuomo may prefer to impede drilling. As head of the nonprofit Open Space
Institute (a group devoted to buying up land to keep it "forever wild"), Martens was critical of using
natural gas as an alternative-energy source, and severely opposed to fracking.
In remarks at Schenectady's Union College in July, he was perfectly clear. "It's the potential scale
of drilling within the Marcellus Shale that is the real concern," he warned. "If DEC decides to give
the gas industry the green light, there could be thousands of new gas wells drilled in the Catskills
and the southern tier . . . [and] the potential for problems multiplies dramatically with each well that
is drilled."
He even questioned the focus on natural gas: "Shouldn't we be doing everything possible to
reduce energy consumption and do everything possible to increase the use of renewable
resources before we make a major decision to exploit the Marcellus Shale and possibly damage,
perhaps irreparably, the land, air and water resources that sustain life itself?"
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