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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservations (DEC) Revised Draft Supplemental General Environmental
Impact Statement recommends opening up large areas of New
York to shale gas development, which would permit fracking.3
However, the DEC did not analyze how fracking would affect
New Yorks agricultural and farming sector.4
Recently, the news media leaked information that Governor
Andrew Cuomo is considering a plan to allow fracking in
five Southern Tier counties: Broome, Chemung, Chenango,
Steuben and Tioga.5 Agriculture and farming are considered
central to the Southern Tier economy,6 and about two-thirds
of the areas agricultural sales are for milk and dairy products.7
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Resource competition may also present itself in other, potentially unforeseen ways. Sawdust is often used for animal farm
bedding.35 The oil and gas industry also uses it, combining it
with drilling waste before sending it off to landfills.36 Because
of this, some farmers in Pennsylvania were unable to purchase
sawdust for their cattle bedding.37
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