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Fracking: what next?

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It's been billed as both an economic bonanza and an environmental catastrophe. Shale Gas development in New York has been on hold for four and half years pending a review of the risks and rewards of hydraulic fracturing. This program presented by WSKG/Innovation Trail reporter Matt Richmond, and journalist and author of "Under The Surface", Tom Wilber looks at the latest developments.

Guests:

Jon Campbell, New York State government reporter for Gannett New York newspapers

John Hanger, former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Roger Downs, Sierra Club representative in Albany, NY

Tom West, founder and managing partner of The West Firm, PLLC

Helen Holden Slottje, Managing Attorney at Community Environmental Defense Council