Oh, to be a fly on the wall for this meeting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters in Queens today after giving his localized version of the State of the State address that he would meet with ardent fracking opponent and musician Yoko Ono — and anyone else who would want to meet to discuss the issue.

Ono had requested to meet with Cuomo earlier this month in an anti-fracking TV ad.

“I’m willing to meet with the supporters,” Cuomo said. “I’m willing to meet with the opponents. I’m willing to meet with the people who are in the middle and on the fence. I said to let Yoko Ono know if she wants to meet and discuss it, I’ll discuss it with her.”

But Cuomo says he won’t be rushed into making a decision on the contentious subject of natural gas drilling, with a decision as to whether to allow high-volume hydrofracking in parts of the upstate region being delayed once again on Tuesday when Health Commissioner Nirav Shah wrote in a letter that he needed more time to assess the health impacts.

The delay in releasing the report means the state will miss a deadline for releasing a massive environmental impact statement on the process before releasing regulations later this month. With the deadline blown, Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said in a statement yesterday that permits could still be issued if the process is deemed safe and the regulations are still being written.

While natural gas industry has said the potential for permitting without regulations wouldn’t be disruptive, environmental advocates have questioned the legality of the potential development.

Cuomo said today it wouldn’t be “prudent” to push Shah and the Department of Health to move faster on developing the health impact report.

“What I’ve said all along I want to take the emotion out of the fracking discussion and subsititute facts and information,” Cuomo said. “It is a big decision for the state — both ways. There is an economic upside, if we get it wrong there could be serious consequences to the public health. So that’s where you have the strong emotion that you have on both sides. We have gone through a deliberative process. People say you should rush. I’m not going to rush anyone. This is too imoprtant to make a mistake. The Health commissioner says he needs more time to come to an intelligent conclusion, so he needs more time to come to an intelligent conclusion.”

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