The Auburn City Council unanimously passed a resolution Thursday asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to extend New York’s fracking ban to a new “loophole” method already permitted for use in Tioga County.
In 2015, Cuomo directed the state Department of Environmental Conservation to ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, which is a method to extract natural gas and oil from underground by injecting fluids, typically water and a chemical mixture, at high pressure.
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