New York

In April, 2020, the New York State legislature permanently banned high-volume hydraulic fracturing (often called fracking) within the state. However, there are other types of extraction-related impacts being felt by the state.

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FracTracker Data Folder Contents

FracTracker provides state-specific data on issues such as:

Locations of oil and gas facilities
Pipelines and processor locations
Production amount of oil and gas generated
Amounts of waste generated from oil and gas

The data folders may also contain information on other energy generation locations, data from different years, and data on violations committed by oil and gas facilities. Amount of information and types of information will vary by state. Get data.

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New York State’s oil and gas well database is updated nightly. It is available as a downloadable .csv file. Go to the section of the website called Well Data Files in CSV Format to download the zipped file.

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