Drilling Concerns Near Finger Lakes Wineries

Apr 19, 2010

Economic boom for New York or environmental disaster?In the second half of the 20th century, the Finger Lakes wine region of New York became a tourist destination. Visitors come by the thousands to drive the winding country roads, look at the scenery—vineyards stretching down hillsides toward clear blue lakes—and to taste and buy the area’s award-winning wines. Yet many winemakers and grapegrowers don’t realize the full extent to which clouds gathering on their horizon could potentially change that bucolic landscape, discourage tourists from coming and make growing quality grapes and wine much more difficult.

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