The most recent poll doesn’t do much to settle the dispute over whether to extract a huge natural gas reserve from the Marcellus Shale area of upstate New York.
The Quinnipiac University poll finds 45 percent of New York voters support drilling while 41 percent oppose it.
Among upstate voters, just 43 percent support drilling while 47 percent oppose it as a threat to the environment.
Wednesday’s poll found Republicans and men were most supportive of the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
The Cuomo administration is still studying whether the benefits from fracking are worth the potential risk to the environment.
The poll questioned 1,016 registered votes Sept. 13-18. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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