Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Unite Artists Against Fracking in New York, Musicians urge Governor Cuomo not to reverse the state ban on hyraulic fracturing

Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Unite Artists Against Fracking in New York, Musicians urge Governor Cuomo not to reverse the state ban on hyraulic fracturing Patrick Flanary, August 29, 2012, Rolling Stone Magazine
Ono and Lennon, who founded Artists Against Fracking in July, gathered the coalition on Wednesday at New York’s Paley Center for Media and called on Governor Cuomo to discuss developing renewable alternatives to wells, some of which have been linked to leaking methane into the groundwater. “I feel like the end result of wanting to make profits through fossil fuels and drilling for oil and gas is that you overlook individual people and small-town farmers,” Lennon told Rolling Stone after the event. “That’s what’s happening in New York right now: they’re promising that we won’t drill near the reservoirs that supply Manhattan, but that basically means that places that are less populated are somehow less important.”
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Most states that allow fracking don’t require drillers to detail the chemicals they blast into the bedrock to harvest natural gas – such a recipe is often considered a “trade secret.” Once a landowner signs his lease over to a gas company – and unless a doctor deems that a medical emergency exists – that trade secret remains sealed. … Uncovering their list of fracking chemicals has led to many dead ends, Assemblywoman Sandra Galef told Rolling Stone.
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“This is not going to bring jobs to America and save our economy,” Lennon told reporters on Wednesday. “Once they destroy one community, they move on to the next.”