Don't Say It Can't Happen -- Pro-Business Governor Bans Hydraulic Fracking For One Year -- New Jersey

Link here.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has enacted a one-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, making the Garden State the first state in the US to ban hydraulic fracturing.


In June 2011, the New Jersey legislature passed a bill to permanently ban hydraulic fracturing in the state, and Thursday, Gov. Christie recommended a one-year moratorium on the completion method.

The move is largely seen as a public statement, rather than a real imposition, because no operators are interested in using hydraulic fracturing in New Jersey.

One has to almost smile out loud; when one drives through New Jersey industrial areas, there is so much worse stuff -- at least in the eye of this beholder -- than anything hydraulic fracking would do one mile underground.