ALBANY — Landowners along New York’s southern border who support natural gas drilling are cheered by reports that the Cuomo administration is considering allowing hydraulic fracturing on a limited basis in towns that want it, though opponents call the idea ...

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ALBANY — A coalition of upstate New York landowners seeking to lease land for natural gas drilling pressed state officials Wednesday to consider the rights of property owners as they make decisions on shale gas development.   The Joint Landowners ...

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ALBANY — An upstate landowners group may have found a way to get around the state’s de facto moratorium on shale gas drilling by using propane instead of water for hydraulic fracturing.   Department of Environmental Conservation spokeswoman Emily DeSantis ...

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SCRANTON, Pa. — A natural gas industry group is offering an all-expenses paid trip to pro-drilling landowners in the Northeast's Marcellus Shale to get them to attend a public meeting by the U.S. Department of Energy on the issue of hydraulic fracturing, a newspaper reported Friday.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking land on which to build a new national cemetery to serve veterans in Western New York, including the Buffalo and Rochester areas.

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Landowners in Monroe County have a 30-day period to request that agricultural land be added to an existing agricultural district.

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