Today in your Trail Mix:
The state's fracking advisory panel may be missing its deadline.
A clean-up along Onondaga Lake's shoreline.
Big job creation numbers for Rochester.
Plus, Binghamton University ties the knot with a Korean school.
Natural gas
The fracking advisory panel that skipped a meeting last week when state agencies were unprepared may now miss a November deadline to release its recommendations (Karen DeWitt, New York State Public Radio).
A gas industry lobbyist says he's worried that regulation in New York will dampen the industry's enthusiasm for drilling here (Jon Campbell, Gannett).
Regulation of fracking wastewater will begin in 2014, according to EPA regulators speaking before a senate committee yesterday (Brian Tumulty, Gannett).
Gas drillers reacted by saying that the Washington is "in search of a problem (Andrew Maykuth, Philadelphia Inquirer).
Pennsylvania says jobs in the drilling industry have doubled between 2008 and 2011 (AP).
Environment
A former industrial waste dump could be converted into a public park, if Honeywell International follows through with plans for the shore of Onondaga Lake (Rick Moriarty, Post-Standard).
Environmental groups are protesting a move by Niagara Falls to process fracking wastewater, because of the region's legacy with Love Canal (AP).
GLOW may be dead, but Lake Erie will still be the site of wind power - wind power testing that is (Daniel Robison, Innovation Trail).
Economy
Rochester won the jobs creation arms race over the last year, bringing 10,000 new positions online (Tom Tobin, Democrat and Chronicle). Buffalo added 4,900 jobs in the prior year (David Robinson, Buffalo News).
The Buffalo Niagara Partnership is releasing a report today - following onto its summer conference - which offers a number of recommendations for refining upstate's approach to economic development (David Robinson, Buffalo News).
The Southern Tier regional economic council has signed off on an official list of complaints about doing business in New York, including navigating a mishmosh of state agencies (Liz Lawyer, Ithaca Journal).
Syracuse residents are more optimistic about their real estate market than the rest of upstate - but their attitude still took a hit in the latest sentiment poll from Siena College (Rick Seltzer, Central New York Business Journal).
Binghamton's mayor says "Occupy Binghamton" protestors don't need a permit for their tent city, but other local politicians are worried about their lack of liability insurance (Nancy Dooling, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
Higher education
Binghamton University has inked a deal with a Korean school to boost up its Korean studies program (Jennifer Micale, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
Cornell cut the ribbon on a new building for its Human Ecology program yesterday (Rachel Stern, Ithaca Journal).
Senator Charles Schumer is seeking assurances from the Department of Homeland Security that it'll protect nanotechnology assets, like UAlbany’s program, from Mexican terrorists (Scott Waldman, Times Union).
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