New York Fracking Ban: Insult Followed by Injury By Charles Sartain on September 8, 2015 Posted in Energy Policy, Lease Disputes Les Advises the Tigers Not to Buy a Lease in NY Political actions have consequences. A force majeure clause in New York oil and gas leases does not modify the primary term of the habendum clause and the leases are not extended because of the state ban “moratorium” on hydraulic fracturing.…