The DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation has permitted Gastem USA to Frack in Otsego County, New York. A well attended protest took place Thursday.
According to Cooperstown News Bureau, the company is likely to wait until spring. The moratorium on Fracking that passed in the senate, expires in May, and hasn't yet passed in the House.
It is part of the DEC's constitution to help the Oil and Gas Industries.
In Rochester, CEOs of Halliburton and Chesapeake Energy celebrated five years of profits from Fracking, by holding a public dump-in and press conference. They toasted with wine glasses full of flaming, toxic water and subsequently dumped buckets of toxic water into a reservoir to symbolize Fracking, which they held to be a patriotic subindustry. They hired a woman to dance with a flaming hula hoop in appreciation of the Halliburton Loophole, which exempts Fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act and other acts won by the environmental movement in the early 1970s. Protesters such as Emily Good, asked challenging questions during the press conference and chanted, "It's Our Water, We Will Fight!" at the CEOs while they dumped the toxic water.
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