New York’s fracking ban leaves community to crumble while Penn. neighbors boom with gas millions

Fonte: New York Post

It was the best of booms, it was the worst of bans. Separated by a single state line, two rural communities straddling the New York-Pennsylvania border have been thrust into opposite futures — one riding a lucrative fracking boom, its Empire State neighbor facing economic rot due to a wall of environmental regulations. “The people in Bradford County know we’re helping to power America,” Doug McLinko, an elected commissioner in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.