Energy

DEC Commissioner Joe Martens answers your fracking questions

WXXI News | By Marie Cusick, WMHT

Published December 12, 2011 at 4:32 PM EST

In our latest Innovation Trail report for New York NOW, we put your questions to the man in charge of the state's Department of Environmental Conversation - the agency that will determine if and when New York allows the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking:

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