In the race for Governor of New York (which has been a hot topic at IPR in the past week or two), there was only one debate that featured all the candidates, which has received a great deal of attention far outside New York State.
The only other debate of any kind in this race that I know of took place last night. It was between Libertarian candidate Warren Redlich and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, and was on the subject of hydraulic fracturing (also called hydrofracking).
WSYR 9 in Syracuse and YNN have video and quotes from the candidates.
H/T Eric Sundwall in comments on a previous story.
>the subject of hydraulic fracturing
Only 2 days left New Yorkers to voice concerns over the NYDEC recommendation to allow hydrofracking on state forest land. (“Natural gas development has the potential to be a significant and growing source of development on State Forest. . .lands due to new technologies that enable industry to effectively extract natural gas from the Marcellus shale play…DEC is inclined to consider natural gas development on State Forests” http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/64567.html ) Here’s the email address: [email protected] . Comments are only open until 4:45pm, Friday, October 29. You may want to mention research results released after DEC released their report where University at Buffalo researchers found that that process causes uranium that is naturally trapped inside Marcellus shale to be released, raising additional environmental concerns. The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver on Nov. 2.