Judge dismisses lawsuits challenging fracking delay

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Jon Campbell

A state judge on Monday dismissed a pair of lawsuits that sought to force Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration into deciding whether to authorize shale-gas drilling in New York.

Acting Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough of Albany County tossed the lawsuits Monday afternoon, ruling that a group of upstate landowners and the bankruptcy trustee for a defunct oil-and-gas company lack the authority to bring the legal challenge.

The Binghamton-based Joint Landowners Coalition of New York and Mark Wallach, the trustee for Norse Energy, separately sued Gov. Andrew Cuomo and members of his administration last year, arguing that Cuomo has acted based on politics—not science—in delaying a decision on whether to allow large-scale hydraulic fracturing.


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1. Landowners group appeals NY fracking lawsuit dismissal

http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2014/07/28/landowners-group-appeals-ny-fracking-lawsuit-dismissal/