Today in your Trail Mix:
A firm in Endicott has allegedly begun conversations with the DEC about being the first facility in New York to treat fracking wastewater.
Governor Cuomo is signing on with the president's jobs bill.
November 14 is the deadline to apply for flood assistance in the Binghamton area.
Natural gas
An Endicott company has approached the state about handling fracking waste water - but it hasn't put in an application and is dismissing questions from reporters (Steve Reilly, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
The Onondaga Nation is starting to see land leased around them, in anticipation of gas companies exploiting the Utica Shale formation (Emma Jacobs, Innovation Trail).
At State Impact PA, Scott Detrow has mapped how much Pennsylvania counties would take in, based on a proposed impact fee for natural gas drilling.
The Delaware River Basin Commission is beginning to collect baseline water samples of the river in anticipation of lifting a moratorium on fracking in northeast Pennsylvania (Susan Phillips, State Impact PA).
The Supreme Court is considering whether or not to hear a case that would separate "mineral rights" from "gas rights" in Pennsylvania - potentially disrupting existing drilling leases (Marc Levy, AP).
Jobs
Governor Cuomo is one of more than a dozen governors that are asking Congress to pass the president's jobs bill (Jon Campbell, Vote Up!).
Rochester-area temporary staffing firm Datrose was honored by the Small Business Administration for a high rate of job growth after receiving federal funds (Diana Louise Carter, Democrat and Chronicle).
The Innovation Trail's Marie Cusick will be reporting on the economic underpinnings of the Occupy Wall Street movement on New York NOW this weekend, but now she's sharing photos and observations from her reporting trip.
The comptroller is worried that New York could lose 10,000 jobs on Wall Street by the end of next year (Maureen McManus, State of Politics/Capital Tonight).
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Around the state
Binghamton: Broome County officials are urging flood victims to register claims with FEMA, and keep them updated, before a November 14 deadline for assistance (Jennifer Micale, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
Syracuse: The Onondaga County Legislature won't be coming through with big bucks for the remains of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra - they voted it down 10 to 9 (Rick Moriarty, Post-Standard).
Buffalo: Occupy Buffalo - inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement - is building a reputation by using "direct democracy" to self-police its participants (Gene Warner, Buffalo News).
Great Lakes: Six out of fifteen fish species studied for mercury in the Great Lakes are unsafe for consumption (Mark Weiner, Post-Standard).
Buffalo: A Buffalo-area town, just minutes from Canada, is trying to make tourism hay out of its legacy as one of the last places to rejoin the Union after the Civil War - in 1946 (Daniel Robison, Innovation Trail).
Kodak
Eastman Business Park - a facility spun out of Kodak - is touting Rochester-area clean technology assets (Zack Seward, Innovation Trail).
But the future remains unclear for Kodak retirees as the company copes with rumors of bankruptcy (Julie Philipp, Morning Edition).
Infrastructure
President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (of which Kodak's Antonio Perez is a member) says in its latest report that infrastructure spending is key to job creation (Melissa Lafsky, Infrastructurist).
Binghamton's airport is getting a 200 foot buffer zone, thanks to a federal grant, to make the runway safer (Debbie Swartz, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
Energy
National Grid is predicting that lower natural gas prices will save the average homeowner $61 this winter (Eric Anderson, Times Union).
Ginna nuclear power plant is offline following a malfunction in a turbine, but according to a spokeswoman, "everything operated as designed" and there's no danger (Steve Orr, Democrat and Chronicle).
Higher ed
All Over Albany has a grid of the cost of local private schools and their ranks.
Four Cornell alums have started a petition, urging New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to choose Cornell as a partner for an NYC-based engineering school (Alyson Shontell, Business Insider).
The National Science Foundation has granted almost a million dollars to pair Buffalo science teachers with local researchers (Mary B. Pasciak, Buffalo News).
Times Union reporter Chris Churchill goes on a tour of the University at Albany's (according to conventional wisdom) "ugly" architecture.
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