Yoko Ono Takes Fight Against Gas Drilling to Albany
nytimes.com
... Mother and son — she wearing a newsboy hat, and he a fedora — gathered with other environmental advocates to talk to reporters before walking over to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office and then driving to the state Department of Environmental Conservation to deliver 50 boxes of what they said were 204,000 anti-drilling comments.
“Fracking kills, and it doesn’t just kill us,” Ms. Ono said. “It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world...”
...Facing unrelenting opposition from activists and residents on the left of the Democratic Party, Mr. Cuomo has not acted on a plan his administration had developed to approve the drilling in counties along the Pennsylvania border. The administration has been studying the health impacts, but has closely held information about its findings.
Ms. Ono warned that the fight would not stop even if hydraulic fracturing were approved.
“If they do this, there will be a class action, and the class action is going to hit everybody who is doing this,” she said, adding: “It’s going to go on and on and on. Do we want that?” |
