Nothing can be more embarrassing for a reporter from upstate New York than not understanding the issue of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, one Albany reporter demonstrated that Wednesday on MSNBC.
With New York State’s presidential primaries finally having significance the national news outlets have descended onto the state in mass. To get a local’s perspective, MSNBC host Kate Snow sat down with WNYT reporter Asa Stackel to discuss the democratic candidates and major state issues. “[Bernie Sanders is] talking about jobs. He also talked with you about another issue that is very local but going national now, fracking. Talk to me about what's happening in upstate New York and why fracking is -- they both, Clinton and Sanders, have made it an issue,” Snow inquired.
“Yeah so, some of the few things you're hearing different in Sanders speech is this fracking. There is the Constitution Pipeline, which takes frank gas from Pennsylvania and connects it—even through Schoharie County where we are right now,” Stackel explained. “And people are angry about this, because frack gas, franking gas, is illegal in New York, yet it's coming through their back yards. Possibly in this pipeline.”