I support the actions that Governor David Paterson took today. I voted against the moratorium bill (S.8129-B/A.11443-B) for the very reasons that he vetoed it: the May 15th moratorium deadline was pointless given the current pace of the DEC's review of horizontal hydraulic fracturing and that the bill would have inadvertently suspended the issuance of new permits for vertical wells. His executive order gets more to the heart of the matter – providing the DEC with additional time to complete its exhaustive review.