Although Governor David Peterson ultimately vetoed this, he issued an executive order that backs an agency ban on horizontal fracking, (the most effective method) until new regulations are released.

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One of his lawyers, David Peilet, said part of it has to do with Peterson feeling the system that he served -- as a military veteran and longtime police officer -- had failed him.

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