Bankrupt fracking firm suing New York governor to end moratorium

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Norse Energy is a failure when it comes to its core business — drilling for gas and oil. Despite America’s huge drilling boom, the company is bankrupt. Unable to turn a profit as a driller, the company has taken to suing governments and officials that limit fracking, blaming them for its undoing.

Attorneys for the company’s trustees filed a lawsuit Tuesday against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and two state commissioners, claiming that the state’s fracking moratorium had brought about the company’s undoing. The Press & Sun-Bulletin reports:

The suit asks the court to force the Cuomo administration to finalize a study that will determine whether large-scale fracking — a controversial technique to help extract gas from shale formations — can proceed in New York, arguing that repeated delays in the state’s decision-making process are grounds for a judge to intervene.

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1. A case to watch. Apparently that company hasn't been doing very well in court so far.

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Anyway, the good news is that the failed company has enjoyed no more success as a litigator than it has as a driller.

Norse Energy is also suing the New York towns of Dryden and Middlefield because they are among the more than 100 local governments in the state that have imposed fracking bans or moratoriums as precautions in case the state’s moratorium gets lifted. The towns have so far prevailed against the lawsuits in multiple courtrooms — although in August the state’s Court of Appeals agreed to hear another appeal.

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2. Kick from an upstate New York home owner!