ALBANY – Several state Court of Appeals judges suggested Tuesday during arguments in two rural upstate zoning cases that their rulings could have a wide-ranging effect on the future of the natural gas drilling technique known as “fracking” in New York and on state energy policies in general.
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman (See Profile) closed more than an hour of arguments in Matter of Wallach v. Town of Dryden, 130, and Cooperstown Holstein Corporation v. Town of Middlefield, 131, by observing that while having adequate energy supplies is an important public policy consideration, so is the need not to “bulldoze” opinions of residents in communities opposed to hydraulic fracturing.
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