Governor Cuomo is following, not leading, in the battle over natural gas and he’s taking our land in the process. It’s time to start acting on behalf of upstate New York State rather than the shrill condescending voices of those who would use the gas without developing it.

When I was a small boy growing up on Leroy Street in the City of Binghamton, I spent the long hot summers on the farm of my best friend’s family. The farm was 400+ acres in Brookdale, Pennsylvania. The property to me was an unexplored New World where I would spend all my free time after the chores were done exploring the rock formations on top of the mountains, where the black bears lived in caves and wild turkeys would scurry away as the dried autumn twigs would snap under the soles of my boots. You could drink the water running off the mountain simply by scooping it up in your hands and quench your thirst as you spent the better part of the day with nature in her very own living room.

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