Days before the New Year, Brighton became the first town in Monroe County to enact a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial process of injecting a high-volume, high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals deep into the ground in order to extract natural gas from ancient shale deposits.

Could the town of Rush be next?

Read the full story by Leo Roth from January 9, 2012 via Fracking debate heats up in Monroe County | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com.