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New York is at a political, industrial and environmental crossroads.
Andrew Cuomo, the Governor-elect, will soon be asked specific questions about hydrofracking. How can this kind of high water pressure horizontal gas drilling take place in upstate New York without the addition of more DEC staff to regulate it? The EPA has voiced strong criticisms of the DEC’s draft SGEIS, what are the Governor-elect’s responses to those criticisms? Can local municipalities say “no” to hydrofracking? How could the gas drilling industry benefit from changes in the US House?
Yet, at the same time there is pressure to drill from both an economic as well as an energy standpoint.
Today we speak with Walter Hang of Toxics Targeting as well as Brian Nearing of the Albany Times Union about New York’s less-than-pristene history with well maintenance.
Jim Goldstein, the Supervisor of the Town of Lebanon, also joins us. He and Norse Energy have tangled on many occasions over a variety of drilling-related issues. You may remember the Vice President of Norse appeared on the Capitol Pressroom about 6 weeks ago. Goldstein will bring another resident of Lebanon to discuss his view of the gas-industry’s approach as well.
He’s Simply FASOnating…
Granted, the GOP doesn’t have a very deep bench, but after Guiliani and Pataki, Faso is one of the best-known, and certainly one of the most well-respected conservative thinkers in the State.
In a wide-ranging interview today on The Capitol Pressroom, John Faso talks about the state’s financial picture, Governor Paterson’s quagmire, Andrew Cuomo and of course, John Faso’s plans for the future.
Will he run? If so, for what?
Plus, the Empire Page’s Peter Pollack joins us with analysis of yesterday’s extraordinary session, and a preview of what could transpire today.
November 5th Show
Before I even tell you what’s on today’s show you need to run, or at least quickly type www.gawker.com into your computer.
Whether you’re a wonk, a reporter or just an interested party, this dissection of emails between reporters & the Spitzer administration in the days leading up to the Governor’s fall from grace is positively illuminating.
Go forth and be illuminated.
My ultimate goal with The Capitol Pressroom is to break down the political and policy decisions in Albany for two reasons:
1. To make them easy to understand.
2. To make them easy to understand why they are relevant to your life.
I have some help with that today. Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb will be spending (almost) the entire morning with me talking about the upstate/downstate divide; his role in Leaders’ meetings as he sees it; and issues of critical importance to his constituents in central and western New York that the state’s current NYC leadership isn’t addressing.
Plus, Rick Karlin of the Times Union and Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS.com will join me with the day’s news.
And if your overly manicured sister-in-law finds it distasteful to travel north of the Tappen Zee bridge (or Southeast of Niagara Falls), Mary Darcy and Greg Dahlmann of All Over Albany will make it more palatable for both her… and you.
Speaker Sheldon Silver and others
Today on The Capitol Pressroom we will be speaking to: NYS Speaker Sheldon Silver, Jimmy Vielkind of the Observer, Ken Lovett of the New York Daily News, John Sheehan of the Adirondack Council, and Steve Greenberg of the Siena Poll.
