Rick Perry Keeps Drilling Andrew Cuomo and New York Over Fracking
In his final address as governor, Perry once again singled out New York.
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In his final speech as governor of Texas, Rick Perry returned to one of his favorite subjects: Why New York was wrong to ban fracking.
Long a proponent of hydraulic fracturing, a process in which chemicals, water and sand are blasted into natural gas wells to facilitate drilling for the commodity, Perry compared Pennsylvania, where the practice is legal, to New York, where it is not, saying that the former state is "creating thousands of energy jobs utilizing fracking to tap deep energy reserves."