SYRACUSE, N.Y. — “The earth, the air, the fire, the water, return, return, return, return,” sang people at Syracuse’s Thorden Park Tuesday.
It was the earth, the air and the fire, but mostly the water that brought them out: specifically, what a natural gas extraction method called hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, could do to it.
“This particular means of extracting gas from the ground is potentially very destructive. And there are a lot of chemicals that are used that frankly we don’t know what they’re made of,” said Bill Fischer, of Syracuse.
Gas companies are poising to hydrofrack the Marcellus Shale in New York’s Southern Tier.
“I just think this is one of those issues that could end up in our backyard here in Central New York,” Fischer said.
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