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New York Protest Targets Fracked Gas Power Plant

HeadlineJan 17, 2019

In New York state, police arrested four people Wednesday as they used tractors to block a road to the construction site of a massive gas-fired power plant. Although New York banned fracking in 2014, activists say the 1,100-megawatt plant in Wingdale would rely on imports of fracked gas from other states.

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