Frackers Plan Feb 2008: 1) Take out the Sheriff 2) Slide past the blind dude

I was going back over the history of Oil+Gas regs in NY
and found an interesting coincidence (??).

Two noteworthy events happened in Feb 2008.

• DEC receives first HVHF permit applications for Marcellus (Town of Erin, Chemung Co)
  See: http://www.dec.ny.gov/dmndata/Well_Reports/Unit_Spacing_SW_Rpt.html

Also during that same month:

• The Sheriff of Wall St., Eliot Spitzer,
  now the Governor of the Empire State
  checks into swank DC hotel as "George Fox"
  and as a client of the Empire Club VIP,
  pays $4,300 cash for two female entertainers.
  
  
• Resigns 1 month later.
  

This always seemed like a set-up / take-down to me.
Still, Eliot had to fall for the bait
(oops, he did).

Do you think these events are related?

I can imagine some Texans smoking cigars
discussing what they could slide past the
blind black dude....

Guess they were wrong....!





David Paterson -- created the NY Moratorium on Fracking
Still in effect nearly 5 years later (56 months)!


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