Fracking is frozen, but gas flows

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Scott Waldman
ALBANY—Andrew Cuomo may have put a freeze on the possibility of fracking in New York, but the supply of fracked natural gas coming into the state from elsewhere is greater than ever.

Last year, a record number of New York City’s buildings converted from oil to gas. And even as the governor defers a decision on whether to permit fracking in the name of a very long health study, his administration is pushing aggressively to convert coal-burning power plants to cleaner-burning natural gas.

In other words, New York is growing ever more reliant on fracking, even if none of that fracking is happening here.

This development is less random than it may seem.

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